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A Stark Choice For Filipino Drug Addicts: Surrender Or Risk Being Killed

Lilibeth Diego, 53, a laundry woman who is married with three children, started using methamphetamine, or shabu, when she was 17. She recently turned herself in to authorities because she feared she could be killed under President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. She says she has been clean for the past several weeks. (Alecs Ongcal for NPR)
Lilibeth Diego, 53, a laundry woman who is married with three children, started using methamphetamine, or shabu, when she was 17. She recently turned herself in to authorities because she feared she could be killed under President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. She says she has been clean for the past several weeks. (Alecs Ongcal for NPR)

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