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CURBING THE DRUG MENACE: Senator Grace Poe (left), chair of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, and Acting Minority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto III (right), discuss with resource persons measures to curb the drug addiction problem in the country. Also discussed during the hearing Wednesday, May 27, 2015, was a research study undertaken by the Department of Health in Cebu City, which allowed the distribution of syringes and needles to drug addicts in Barangay Kamagayan, as a means to prevent the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the retrovirus that causes the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) by destroying the helper T cells of the immune system. (PRIB Photo by Romeo Bugante/27 May 2015)