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New Zealand Drug Use

AMPHETAMINE USE LEVELS

Use of amphetamine drugs is levelling out and there is some evidence of a decline in availability, the New Zealand Medical Journal has reported.
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'KILLING FIELDS' OF NZ'S DRINKING CULTURE

Grieving father Eddie Hansman says the binge-drinking culture among teenagers is the "killing fields of New Zealand" and has called for the drinking age to return to 20.
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New Zealand Drug Use Health & Special Psychology

Kiwi drugs behaviour revealed

Christchurch is the nation's injected-drug capital, with users even injecting veterinary tranquiliser and the behavioural drug Ritalin, a new national study shows.
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Grandmother had $22,000 of P in suitcase

Thousands of dollars worth of methamphetamine was flown to Wellington in the padlocked suitcase of a 54-year-old grandmother who planned to deal it from her state house in Johnsonville. Ref. Source 5

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Student drug use on the rise

Drugs, including P, are increasingly available in schools, experts say, as official figures show a jump in the number of pupils being temporarily banned from school for drug reasons. Ref. Source 7

New Zealand Drug Use

Methamphetamine price up after crackdown

Methamphetamine has risen in price and fallen in potency since the Government's crackdown on drugs, a new report on illicit drug use suggests. Ref. Source 2

New Zealand Drug Use

Drug mule numbers into NZ increase

A Colombian drug mule who died after a bag of cocaine burst inside her is the latest in a surge of people smuggling drugs into New Zealand inside their bodies. Ref. Source 4

New Zealand Drug Use Psychology Special & Health

Party pill users look at 'other options'

BZP-based party pills, banned in 2008, had launched a half a generation of young people into the drug market now looking for "other options", a former police drug squad detective said in Queenstown. Ref. Source 8