BANGKOK/YANGON ¨C The Philippines has launched a bloody ¡°war on drugs¡± that has killed at least 2,400 people in just two months, while neighboring Indonesia has declared a ¡°narcotics emergency¡± and resumed executing drug convicts after a long hiatus.
In Thailand and Myanmar, petty drug users are being sentenced to long jail terms in prisons already bursting at the seams.
The soaring popularity of methamphetamine ¡ª a cheap and highly addictive drug also known as meth ¡ª is driving countries across Asia to adopt hard-line anti-narcotics policies. Experts say they are likely to only make things worse.
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