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Mayor Isko to ban sale of addictive solvents in Manila

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Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News

MANILA (UPDATE) - The sale of solvents will soon be banned in the capital city to help address the addiction of minors on the substance, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno said Tuesday.The directive comes days after the mayor apprehended several boys sniffing the cheap and addictive chemical during a midnight inspection in Manila.“We are going after any store, whether medical or hardware store, if nagbenta kayo ng (you are selling) solvent,” Moreno told reporters.“We are going to treat those individual(s) who are providing solvent to minors as regular pushers,” he said.Solvents, or liquids that turn into gas at room temperature, include rugby and pain thinners which contain psychoactive substances, according to the United States National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA). They are known to cause a brief high, and so users resort to constantly inhaling the substance. Long term use could damage the liver, kidneys, bone marrow and the brain, cause limb spasms and loss in coordination, and delay behavioral development, NIDA said. Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 does not cover solvents and only prohibits the use and sale of marijuana, shabu, ecstasy, opium and opium poppy.“In the absence of an existing law, we can come up with a new law,” Moreno said. “Kung may loophole and batas, lagyan ko ng tsupon,” he said. (If there is a loophole in the law, I will plug it.)

MANILA (UPDATE) - The sale of solvent will soon be banned in the capital city to help address the addiction of minors on the substance, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno said Tuesday.

MANILA (UPDATE) - The sale of solvent will soon be banned in the capital city to help address the addiction of minors on the substance, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno said Tuesday.

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Mayor Isko to ban sale of addictive solvents in Manila

Katrina Domingo,

ABS-CBN News

Published September 03, 2019 06:32 PM PHT

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Updated September 03, 2019 07:35 PM PHT

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