them the right or the autonomy. Ethical issues are not new in the medical history as discussed by Sokol (2018). The principle of double effect suggests that even though medical support is for the greater good, there will always be constraints and ethical issues. Confidentiality according to Sokol (2018) is one of the prominent medical and ethical issues a doctor experience. A practitioner may or may not disclose the procedures and treatments that he is using following the confidentiality principle. However, this discretion might lead to otherwise illegal acts like overdosage of patients, over administering of marijuana to patient or nonpatient for personal interests and the use of the non-patient.

Philippines’ Status Quo on Drug Use

The betterment of both the health and criminality issues through an all-out war on drugs has been the main trajectory of the administration led by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the commencement of his office in 2016. As pleaded by the head of the state, the drug war shall be over in a span of three to six months through an intensified and systematic method which is known as the Oplan Tokhang facilitated by the imbued Philippine National Police in cooperation with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency which is under the DDB. The intensified fight on drugs has shown equally noticeable results. As per the statistics from PDEA on the number of drug users, figures show that on 2013 & 2014, there were 3 million drug users and an estimated 700,000 users on 2016. This number proves truth that the Philippine is the central of illegal drug mobility says Makinano (2018). Comparing the figures from an earlier stand-alone study of the Dangerous Drugs Board in 2008, there were an inferior number which amounts to 1.7 million of users which relates to the 1.9% of the demography of the Philippines in the same year pertained to. However, in 2012, the prior statistics was much lower based on the study done by DDB cooperated by Philippine Normal University which showed 24% decrease on the figures from the 2008 survey, representing 1.3% of the total population in 2012. As traced on the surveys conducted by DDB, there was a major run down of the estimates of drug users from 2004 with 6.7 million of drug users, part of which is associated with marijuana use, to year 2012 highlighting a heightened decrease of 81% within 8 years. However, based on the adapted information from DDB in the article of Makinano (2018), 1.8 million of users were counted. In 2017, during the kick-off of the war on drugs of the Duterte administration, a surprising 261% of the users elevated. PDEA pinned a total of 4.7 million drug users in 2017 affecting 42, 036 barangays all over the Philippines, where 20,872 of which are affected by drugs, 13,920 are slightly affected and 208 are seriously affected. The drugs used in the aforementioned figures and statistics were Methamphetamine or shabu being the first in the list, followed by marijuana or Cannabis Sativa, and ranking at third is ecstasy. The estimates of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Dangerous Drugs Board is clear implication of an ‘inverse’ reverse psychology on part of the users. Law enforcers of RA 6425 hand on hand fulfill their duties and oaths to give security and orderliness in all strata of society. However, despite a stronger implementat