Yellowstone makes it abundantly clear how not to shabu-shabu your extremities.
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One attendee wore a "Showgirls"-esque headdress made of shabu shabu strainers.
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The shabu shabu meats are superb, from Wagyu beef crammed with fat streaks to exquisite chicken meatballs.
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We were eating shabu-shabu at his apartment, in our boxers, and the steam fogged the air between us.
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Mako Okano, the chef, has turned the rowdy scrum of shabu shabu hot pot cooking into a quietly personal experience.
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Last month, several of the restaurants opened for business, including serving the Hawaiian dish poke and Japanese shabu shabu and curries.
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When she began talking about her dream of opening what she hoped would be the world's first omakase shabu shabu restaurant, Cocoron's owners listened.
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Me, I'm looking forward to making tea-soaked drunken chicken with cilantro-scallion oil, or perhaps this vegetarian shabu shabu in kombu-ginger broth.
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That's when Tamoko told us shabu-shabu is actually an onomatopoeia for the bubbling sound food makes when you drag it across the boiling water's surface.
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DON'T SPEND ON HIGH-END MEALS Japantown is home to affordable sushi, ramen and shabu shabu places, while the Mission neighborhood has authentic and favorably priced Mexican.
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Hot pots did not jump to Japan until shortly after World War II, when kelp joined the broth and the name was changed, onomatopoetically, to shabu shabu.
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More intriguing is another original, beef oroshi, essentially shabu shabu except that it is cooked offstage and you get nothing but meat and broth with some spicy grated daikon.
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But like hot pots in China, shabu shabu is a do-it-yourself bash where everybody around the table gets to dunk and swish the ingredients they like best.
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Soba is not standard with shabu shabu, but it is something she has experience making from her time in the kitchen at Cocoron, a soba-ya across Delancey Street.
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Shaved lamb shoulder, baby harukei turnip and two asparagus stalks as thin as licorice whip are served, still cooking, in a hot broth, a kaiseki version of shabu shabu.
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Earlier this month, Indonesian authorities confiscated just over 1 ton of crystal meth, known locally as 'shabu-shabu', also in Batam, a small industrial hub a short ferry ride from Singapore.
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And he didn't stop at basic meat cuts: He replicated his image of Finland-as-sirloin steak and arranged it like slices in a fanned circle to create a Finland shabu-shabu.
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Then on Delancey Street last fall, a new shabu shabu restaurant appeared where a chef standing behind a counter does all the cooking for no more than eight people at a time.
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She brought in a small hotpot that was filled to the brim with onsen water, along with a side of slippery, raw Mii-Kumano beef, marbled with fat, to cook shabu-shabu style.
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And that's not even the most unusual thing about it: according to Okano, it's the world's only restaurant to serve an omakase, or tasting menu, that centers on shabu-shabu, or Japanese hotpot.
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When he was on shabu, he was a different person.
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Taipei has Hello Kitty shabu-shabu (hot pot) restaurants offering tofu in the form of the cat's face and squid-balls shaped like her bow, all washed down with a Hello Kitty fizzy drink.
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Then, they planted shabu [meth] on him to cover it up.
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"They are the living walking dead," he said of shabu users.
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In July, Mr. Duterte said that the brains of shabu users begin to shrink after they use the drug more than a dozen times and that rehabilitation was not a viable option for shabu users on a large scale.
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Being here is not, of course, without its pleasures: spontaneous clarimella recitals from François, afternoons spent lobstering on hot pebble beaches by the shabu-shabu of the Mediterranean Sea, discussions long into the night about capitalism and interspecies extinction.
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They said they had found about 24 pounds of shabu on the property.
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Opinion The Philippines has undertaken a brutal battle against "shabu," or crystal methamphetamine.
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Efforts are evolving to include treatment of addiction in general, not just shabu.
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Alex says he only had a little shabu on him but it didn't matter.
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Domingo's mother, Maria Musabia, said he began using shabu, or meth, when he was 29.
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Shabu is a highly addictive stimulant with side effects that can include aggression and psychosis.
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Shabu, or crystal methamphetamine, manipulates the reward pathways of the brain, flooding it with dopamine.
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On a recent evening, the chef Mako Okano stood behind the counter at Shabu Shabu Macoron, on the Lower East Side, looking a little like Rosie the Riveter: bandanna knotted around her head, the sleeves of her denim kimono rolled up to her elbows.
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Both smoked shabu, a cheap form of methamphetamine that has become a scourge in the Philippines.
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Every week we have surfaced, arrested our own men high on meth, shabu, and all this.
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Shabu: A local name for crystal meth, present in over 90 percent of the capital's neighborhoods.
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He admitted to using shabu for the last two years but insisted he wasn't an addict.
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One 28-year-old man who spoke to Reuters was among those who sold and used shabu.
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The biggest problem is posed by the distribution and use of locally made methamphetamine, known as 'shabu'.
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Drug paraphernalia and a small sachet of suspected shabu were also found inside Espinosa's cell, police said.
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He says shabu—a form of methamphetamine—is no longer a problem locally and that crime has dropped.
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One tells CNN he hasn't used shabu for weeks but suspected the cops would pay him a visit.
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They arrested them, found small amounts of shabu in their possession and took them to the police station.
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The wealth of options—a ramen joint, a shabu-shabu omakase counter, a yakitori grill, a sushi spot, one shop for soba and another for Japanese curry—might help explain why Unagi Aburi Ittetsu, a brightly lit little box that seats only seventeen people, was nearly empty around eight o'clock.
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His tough stance on shabu (crystal meth), and against the criminal networks supplying it, later appealed to voters nationally.
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Are shabu users "no longer viable for rehabilitation" because abusing the drug shrinks their brains, as Mr. Duterte claims?
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Crystal methamphetamine is a form of methamphetamine, a highly addictive synthetic drug also known as speed, shabu and yaba.
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In 288.1 the United Nations said the Philippines had the highest rate of methamphetamine, or "shabu", use in East Asia.
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While the DDB survey says about 860,000 people are shabu users, PDEA chief Villanueva puts the number at 1.4 million.
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At the fish port, men rely on shabu, or methamphetamines, to stay awake during their 18- to 36-hour shifts.
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The police report says that the suspects opened fire, and that four guns and shabu were found at the scene.
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"We have more freedom now," Jason, a 39-year-old bartender told a visiting reporter as he inhaled shabu smoke.
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On another night men burst in on a single mother and shabu-user living nearby as she breast-fed her baby.
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The most popular drug in the country is shabu, slang for crystal meth, which drug syndicates produce in local labs. In
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According to the police, sachets containing a substance believed to be the drug, shabu were found in the killed man's pockets.
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Read "Filipinos Celebrated Easter by Crucifying a Bunch of People Again" Watch "Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap"
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Duterte defended his crackdown and said something had to be done because millions of Filipinos were "slaves to a drug called shabu".
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His bloody war against crime and drugs has taken particular aim at those who use or sell a cheap methamphetamine called shabu.
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Among those attending the Zumba dance program in Ususan was Alma Maaliao, 47, a gaunt mother of 11 and recovering shabu addict.
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This is why it is addiction — not just shabu — that is at the heart of a public health crisis in the Philippines.
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I was encouraged that the restaurateur Stephen Starr and the design firm Roman and Williams put La Mercerie, their French cafe inside a housewares shop, in the hands of Marie-Aude Rose, and that the owners of Cocoron, on the Lower East Side, decided to back one of their cooks, Mako Okano, when she dreamed of bringing an omakase approach to shabu shabu.
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A police officer in the Philippines holds high-purity crystal meth — known locally as "shabu" — after a bust south of Manila in January 2014.
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On a recent morning, the acrid smell of burning methamphetamine — or shabu, as Filipinos call it — wafted through a remote corner of the cemetery.
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"The Philippines is a transhipment of shabu to America," Duterte told members of the Philippine Constitution Association, referring to the local term for methamphetamine.
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Villanueva started with an estimate based on drug-rehab facility data that he said showed 75 percent of patients at these facilities were shabu users.
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Watch "Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap" Read "The War on Drugs Isn't Just Destroying Lives — It's Also Killing the Environment"
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Rodrigo Duterte, speaking to Filipinos' alarm about widespread shabu use, was elected president in June 403 on his promise to solve the country's drug problem.
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Some of the rallygoers laughed nervously, well aware of the fate that often met anyone accused of abusing shabu, the Philippine name for crystal meth.
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Many on the lists are past or current users of shabu, the local name for the methamphetamine at the heart of Mr. Duterte's antidrug campaign.
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The U.S. State Department said 21.89 percent of Flipinos aged 213 to 22015 were using shabu, the main drug threat in the Philippines along with marijuana.
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Another time, he recalls, three young women suspected of dealing shabu -- the local name for methamphetamine -- were bound, beaten and raped by DDS members, then killed.
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"She was a member of a notorious gang that sells shabu in this area," the priest told me recently, using the local term for crystal meth.
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Methamphetamine, known as shabu , is widely abused, especially in the slums, where pedicab drivers and day laborers use the drug in order to work longer hours.
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In his pocket, the police found two tiny rocks — about $4 worth of "shabu," the form of crystal meth at the heart of this drug war.
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Espinosa has publicly denied any part in the drug trade but said his son was peddling "shabu" (methamphetamine), which he gets from a jailed Chinese drug trader.
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Scarcity fuels desperation and the desperate turn to petty crime, or dealing and using drugs, mostly "shabu", the methamphetamine Duterte says could destroy a generation of Filipinos.
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Mr. Duterte has likened shabu addicts to zombies and claimed — absent evidence — that many are "no longer viable for rehabilitation" because abusing the drug shrinks their brains.
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It also reports that shabu was the drug of choice for about 97 percent of the 5,402 people who were admitted last year to drug treatment facilities.
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Fewer than half of them – 860,000 – had consumed crystal meth, or shabu, the highly addictive stimulant widely blamed by officials for high crime rates and other social ills.
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Of the 1.4 million shabu users Villanueva had identified by his method, about 700,000 people had already "surrendered" to the police as drug users and pushers, he said.
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The administration's stated target was shabu (methamphetamine), and their efforts towards that target did not affect cost or availability of that commodity, despite their reports to the contrary.
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Crystal meth, known locally as "shabu," is the primary drug consumed and trafficked within the Philippines and is present in more than 90 percent of the capital's neighborhoods.
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The first witness was a woman named Harra Kazuo, the wife of a man who was arrested for shabu possession and killed while detained at a police station.
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Meth is sold in cheap pills called "ya ba", a Thai name meaning "crazy medicine", or in a more potent, crystalline form known as "crystal meth", "ice" or "shabu".
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Meth is sold in pill form as "ya ba", a Thai name meaning "crazy medicine", or as a more potent, crystalline substance known as "crystal meth", "ice" or "shabu".
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According to his sister, Vivian, Borbe dealt drugs, but not by choice; he was forced into the drug trade to support his addiction to methampetamines, known locally as shabu.
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The campaign has taken particular aim at people who use or sell shabu, a cheap form of methamphetamine that has caused grave health and social problems across the country.
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In September, three men were killed here in what the police called an antidrug sting operation; they were said to have been trying to sell $10 worth of shabu.
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Imelda Hidalgo, who lives in a slum of Quezon City, in Manila, says the police gunned down her brother last year, probably because they heard that he took shabu (methamphetamine).
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Police said they shot dead Conrado Berona, 2548, who was wanted for robbery and drug dealing, in a gunfight on July 548, and that shabu was found on his body.
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Shortly after Herrera was detained, police in the Philippinesseized 84 kilograms of high-grade "shabu" crystal meth worth $9.4 million and arrested three suspects with alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel.
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Duterte won the 2016 presidential election in May on promises to crack down on shabu, a type of crystal meth which has had many Filipinos in its grip in the last decade.
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He acknowledged that rehab data was already skewed towards shabu users, who seek treatment more often than users of less addictive drugs, and that applying the percentage to another study was problematic.
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Shortly after Herrera was detained, police in the Philippines seized 84 kilograms of high-grade "shabu" crystal meth worth $9.4 million and arrested three suspects with alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel.
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The first variety is common in mainland Southeast Asia, and the second — known as shabu, ice or crystal meth, among other names — is more popular in the Philippines and many other countries.
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Duterte has repeatedly said he will hunt down drug lords and other "high value" targets and to date, there have been a handful of large-scale seizures and raids on shabu laboratories.
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As it is, Jason said, shabu is always in plentiful supply, adding he was addicted and the drug eliminated any fear he may have had of being shot by police or vigilantes.
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Duterte also said six people arrested last week during a seizure of more than half a tonne of methamphetamine, known locally as "shabu", in the capital were fortunate he was out of town.
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As to how the police crisis affects drug lords, "this is a momentary victory on your part," the police chief said, expressing fears that use of methamphetamine, locally known as "shabu," may rise again.
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His article, according to NUJP, suggested local officials were negligent when a laboratory was illegally set up to make "shabu", a methamphetamine that Duterte has vowed to wipe out, along with anyone selling it.
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The scourge of drugs -- particularly crystal methamphetamine, known in the country as shabu -- has taken its toll on families and relationships and on communities and barangays (small neighborhood-based local governments) right around the nation.
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"Pretty much all the restaurants in our entire shopping plaza [are down] anywhere from 50% to 75%, depending on the day," Debbie Chen, an owner of the Shabu House restaurant in Houston, told USA Today.
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"It is very clear, based on official data, despite the number of Filipinos killed and the budget spent, the volume of shabu supply curbed didn't exceed 1%," Robredo told a news conference, referring to methamphetamines.
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In a dark rabbit warren of wood and corrugated iron, the most commonly used drugs - shabu (crystal meth) and nubain (a morphine-like opiate) - are sold in "shooting galleries" for 300 pesos ($6) per syringe.
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The authorities have seized more than two and a half tonnes of the methamphetamine "shabu", with a street value of 13.2 billion pesos ($259.4 million) ($1 = 51 pesos) Reporting by Manuel Mogato; Writing by Martin Petty
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One jeepney driver had started taking shabu to work longer hours, finding himself hooked for 30 years; when we talked, he'd been drug-free for 10 months and had connected with the daughter he never knew.
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John Paul Dureza, the nephew of Duterte's political adviser and peace negotiator Jesus Dureza, was caught selling 15 grams of "shabu" methamphetamine to an undercover Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agent in Davao City on Thursday.
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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducted the operations, including one on Monday in San Juan City in the capital Manila where drums of chemicals used to produce methamphetamines, or "shabu" as it is known, were seized.
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Chief Inspector Elias Colonia, a spokesman for the local police, said the authorities had information that Mr. Dimaukom and his group were transporting a shipment of shabu, a cheap form of methamphetamine widely sold in the Philippines.
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As a long-serving mayor in the southern city of Davao, Duterte rose to national prominence by declaring war on a drug that has crippled the Philippines, the cheap variant of crystal meth that Filipinos call shabu.
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Malaysia is a key transit point for the drug, authorities say, with police in the past year seizing record amounts of crystal meth, or shabu as it is known domestically, with much of it coming from neighboring Myanmar.
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Since taking office in June, Mr. Duterte has embarked on a bloody campaign against drugs — particularly shabu, a cheap form of methamphetamine — that has left about 2,000 people killed by police officers, and hundreds of others by vigilantes.
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In the Philippines, the government's Dangerous Drugs Board has estimated that 1.3 million of the country's 100 million people are illegal drug users and that shabu is the most commonly used illegal substance, ahead of marijuana and inhalants.
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Hart, a professor of psychology at Columbia (disclosure: I worked on a book project with him), had lectured at a conference, discussing his research on meth, locally known as "shabu," which is being blamed for turning users into monsters.
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" In a written response to questions from Reuters about the impact of Duterte's campaign on the street-level shabu trade, the PDEA said that "based on reports gathered, the supply of illegal drugs in some areas are still considerably abundant.
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In 2012, the United Nations said the Philippines had the highest rate of methamphetamine use in East Asia, and according to a U.S. State Department report, 2.1 percent of Flipinos aged 16 to 64 use the drug, which is known locally as "shabu".
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We visit the Tondo district of Manila, a port area overwhelmed by shabu, to speak to dealers defending their turf and police officers trying to contend with porous borders, stunted judiciary power, and – their most challenging enemy – corruption within their own forces.
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Watch VICE News' Crystal Meth and Cartels in the Philippines: The Shabu Trap: Reuters reports that, in the weeks since Duterte's election victory, there has been a jump in the number of suspected drug dealers shot dead by police and anonymous vigilantes.
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Family members say that relatives have been executed by the police and that many of the police shootings follow a similar pattern, with the suspect opening fire and then a revolver and shabu (methamphetamine) being found on their bodies after the police shoot them dead.
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Beside one of the less-used railroad tracks in Manila - a grassy area scattered with human excrement only a few miles from the gleaming high-rises of the Makati business district - shabu was easily available last week, costing just a few pesos (cents) per hit.
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Many critics question the drug war's focus on killing petty users and dealers from poor communities, rather than nabbing the kingpins who supply them with crystal meth, a highly addictive stimulant known locally as 'shabu' that officials blame for high crime rates and other social ills.
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" The PDEA attributed low street prices for shabu - prices overall have risen only minimally since the war on drugs began and in some areas have fallen - to a "lack of customers" or drug traffickers trying to get rid of their supply "in order to avoid arrest.
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"Que's murder came after he published his column, which criticised local officials and their alleged negligence in allowing the setting up on the island-province of a recently raided shabu [the local name for methamphetamine] laboratory that authorities claimed was the biggest so far discovered in the country," the IFJ said.
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The Bureau of Customs and anti-drugs authorities announced Tuesday night the discovery of about half a ton (1,100 pounds) of methamphetamine, locally called shabu, concealed in two steel cylinders in two abandoned container vans at Manila&aposs international container port in one of the largest drug seizures under Duterte.
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The Philippines has 1.8 million drug users, according to the Country's Dangerous Drugs Board (though the board's DDB chair "guesstimated" the figure may be as high as 3 million in an interview with CNN Philippines.) Nearly half of them use methamphetamine, which is known locally as "shabu" or "ice," according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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When I visited the center, some 600 patients, ages 13 to 71 at the time — 95 percent of whom are addicted to shabu — were undertaking "therapeutic community rehabilitation": a month of detoxification followed by roughly a year of residential treatment in which patients and their families learn how to manage the social and psychological issues that led to addiction.
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