On June 1, 2023, I delivered the closing keynote for the 16th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) in Leuven, Belgium, as the inaugural winner of ISSDP's "Excellence in Research Award". In my lecture entitled "Between global and local: Drug policy reflections from Southeast Asia" and held on the last day of the three-day conference, I talked about the Philippine drug policy situation, the emergence of drugs as populist tropes in the region, as well as regional influences and their roles in drug policy.
The paper that was the basis of my lecture can be found here.
