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The Philippine drug war, known as the War on Drugs, is the intensified anti-drug campaign of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, who served office from June 30, 2016 to June 30, 2022. The campaign reduced drug proliferation in the country, but has been marred by extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by the police and unknown assailants.Prior to his presidency, Duterte cautioned that the Philippines was at risk of becoming a narco-state and vowed the fight against îllégâl drugs will be relentless. He has urged the public to kill drug addicts. The anti-narcotics campaign has been condemned by media organizations and human rights groups, which reported staged crime scenes where police allegedly execute unarmed drug suspects, planting guns and drugs as evidence. Philippine authorities have denied misconduct by police.Duterte has since admitted to underestimating the îllégâl drug problem when he promised to rid the country of îllégâl drugs within six months of his presidency, citing the difficulty in border control against îllégâl drugs due to the country's long coastline and lamented that government officials and law enforcers themselves were involved in the drug trade.In 2022, Duterte urged his successor, Bongbong Marcos, who won the 2022 Philippine presidential election, to continue the war on drugs in "his own way" to protect the youth. Marcos declared his intention to continue the anti-narcotics campaign, focusing more on prevention and rehabilitation.

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