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President Rodrigo Duterte is waging a deadly war on drugs in the Philippines, and the international human rights community has no kind words for him. But amid the snowballing death toll, some are seeing opportunity for positive change.

“This has been an opportunity where we’re actually starting to hear people questioning the whole idea of the war on drugs,” said Inez Feria, founder and executive director of NoBox Transitions, a drug treatment and policy reform advocacy group in the Philippines, in an interview with Humanosphere. “So with the challenges that the current situation is presenting, are also certain opportunities in a way.”

Congressman Rodel Batocabe is one man who sees opportunity. He’s behind a proposed bill to build government-funded rehabilitation centers in every legislative state. Dubbed the “Accessible Drug Rehabilitation Treatment Act,” his bill aims to provide low-cost or even free treatment for poor addicts, who many say are affected the most by drug addiction as well as Duterte’s violent war.

“Most of the drug addicts here in the Philippines are poor,” said Batocabe in an interview with Humanosphere. “And yet … rehabilitation is way, way above their means, so if there is no subsidy from the government … these drug addicts will remain as such.”

According to Batocabe, there are only 45 rehabilitation centers in the entire country. Of those, 18 are government-run, but even those, he says, are currently too expensive for the poor, who cannot afford the room and board fees.

For the thousands who have voluntarily surrendered in hopes of avoiding that fate or equally horrific imprisonment in overcrowded prisons, the current solution is a signed statement by the drug pusher that he or she will no longer sell and by users that they’ll “reform their ways.”

But Batocabe is adamant they need professional help and that they all have “the right to be rehabilitated.” Ideally, he would like to build and fund 150 new rehab facilities, but he admits that may be unrealistic.

Kine of Human Rights Watch, thinks it’s more than unrealistic. “There have been absolutely zero meat on the bones of these types of statements. There’s no budget, there’s no plan, there’s no talk of the types of expertise they would bring to these types of facilities.”

The president publicly expressed support for Batocabe’s bill last week, so does Feria think Duterte will be supportive of her initiatives? “I do hope so. Anyone serious about addressing this concern would be.”

But with an average of more than 100 extrajudicial killings per week, it seems reformers like Batocabe and Feria are in a race against time.