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One in 5 under-30s have been offered P 2010-09-04
About 20 per cent of young adults have been offered P and 5 per cent have tried it, according to a new survey on the drug.Campaigners say the results show the problem is far more widespread than previously thought.A UMR Research...
Police busts push up price of P 2010-09-01
Police and customs seizures are driving up the price of P because criminals now face a greater risk of getting caught, says a drug expert.An annual drug survey made public today shows the price of a gram of methamphetamine, or...
Price of P going up as police seize more 2010-09-01
Police and customs seizures are driving up the price of P because criminals now face a greater risk of getting caught, says a drug expert.An annual drug survey made public today shows the price of a gram of methamphetamine, or...
Drugs stolen from vet could kill - police 2010-08-31
Police are worried drugs stolen from a Far North vet could end up harming people as well as animals.Thieves stole supplies of pentobarbital and ketamine from Top Vets in Kaitaia in late July.Northland police spokeswoman Sarah...
Pharmacist takes police through crime scene 2010-08-28
The pharmacist who fought off a burglar before the career criminal's heart failed is back at his counter.Grant Gillard's business has been closed since the fatal struggle with Bruce Allan Jones, 43, on Tuesday.But the Mt Albert...
Drug-dealing lifer gets 20-year term 2010-08-27
Convicted murderer Dean Waka Nathan was wrong if he thought he had nothing to lose by dealing in methamphetamine from inside Christchurch Men's Prison, where he is serving a life sentence.The 20-year jail term he was given today...
Store intruder was killer driver 2010-08-26
A burglar who died while wrestling with a pharmacist in the man's store was a convicted killer driver with an extensive criminal history.Bruce Allan Jones, 43, died from a suspected heart attack after confronting Mt Albert pharmacist...
Paul Thomas : Drug decriminalisation makes sense 2010-08-21
The Afghan conflict is now officially America's longest war, surpassing Vietnam.But another US-led war has been going on for a lot longer with even less to show for it and no exit in sight. The War on Drugs, launched by President...
Survey: More Aussie kids taking steroids 2010-08-11
SYDNEY - Australian schools have been told to broaden their drug education programmes as research shows how many teens are experimenting with anabolic steroids.A major survey conducted in secondary schools has found 2.4 per cent...
12-year-old drug dealer stuns school 2010-08-08
A drug dealing 12-year-old took a kilogram of cannabis to sell to his mates at an intermediate school.The kid with the stash, worth about $7000, was busted when his friends at Auckland's Manurewa Intermediate were caught smoking...
Trial for man accused of blackmailing lawyer 2010-08-03
A jury has been sworn in for the trial of an Auckland man who is accused of blackmailing his lawyer.Paul Desmond Currie, 45, faces one charge of blackmail after he allegedly threatened to expose his lawyer when he lost $200,000...
Anna Nicole trial: Overdose evidence barred 2010-07-31
The judge in the trial of Anna Nicole Smith's doctors and lawyer-boyfriend said Friday he was barring all evidence linking the defendants to Smith's fatal drug overdose because they were not charged with causing her death.Superior...
Three arrested in police, customs operation 2010-07-29
Three Palmerston North men were arrested this morning and face a variety of charges after a four-month police and customs operation targeting the production and distribution of illegal drugs.Police searched four houses in Palmerston...
Police bust huge money laundering scheme 2010-07-22
Police this morning busted a multi-million dollar money-laundering operation in Auckland, another phase in a year-long organised crime sting that last week netted a $5 million methamphetamine seizure.A financial exchange business...
P supplier just 'helping police' 2010-07-21
A retired pharmacist who supplied precursor drugs to a methamphetamine drug ring has told the court that he thought he was "helping police and the community".Samuel Ross Pulman pleaded guilty to a representative charge of manufacturing...
Pharmacist P supplier just 'helping police' 2010-07-21
A retired pharmacist who supplied precursor drugs to a methamphetamine drug ring has told the court that he thought he was "helping police and the community".Samuel Ross Pulman pleaded guilty to a representative charge of manufacturing...
$20m drug bust in Fiji 2010-07-15
Fiji police have arrested several "foreign nationals"and are questioning them over a drug bust they say is worth $F28 million ($19.8m)."Police say they have also confiscated a large amount of white powder believed to be raw material...
'I have used P'confesses Prast 2010-07-11
Supercity mayoral candidate Simon Prast has admitted to having used P.The high-profile actor and director says prohibiting use of the Class A drug is "hypocritical", when people are getting drunk and beating their wives, and the...
Addict jailed for giving drug to teen 2010-07-10
A drug addict who supplied methadone to a teenage boy - who later fell into a coma and died - has been jailed for her "despicable act".Eleanor Chatterton, 51, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months'jail for supplying the class-B...
Police warning over lost drugs 2010-07-03
Lower Hutt police are warning anyone who picked up a bag of methadone in the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae that it could be fatal if misused.The small pharmacy bag was dropped between 9am and 10am yesterday in Hillary Court.It...
Graphic anti-drug message stirs up pupils and critics 2010-07-03
The first boy faints before Pat Buckley has even started to talk about drugs.It's Wednesday afternoon at Rutherford College in Te Atatu, West Auckland. Buckley, a heavily tattooed ex-heroin addict, is giving a graphic presentation...
Wayne gets Lil sentence 2010-07-02
Lil Wayne has been sentenced to three years probation on a drug possession charge.The rapper - real name Dwayne Carter - is currently serving a one-year jail sentence in Arizona on an unrelated gun charge and will begin his probation...
'Frozen girlfriend'man back in NZ 2010-07-02
A former Queenstown man who kept his girlfriend's body on ice for nearly a year after she died from a drug overdose in a United States hotel is back in New Zealand.Sally Royds said from her home in Queenstown yesterday that she...
Man sentenced to 12 more years for prison drug ring 2010-06-29
Auckland methamphetamine dealer Say Tsong Lu has had a 12-year jail term added to his current prison sentence for his part in a drug ring run from inside a Christchurch prison.Lu, a 39-year-old kitchen hand, was already serving...
Youth drug addiction crisis ravages Punjab's heartlands 2010-06-28
India's northern Punjab province is on the verge of a crisis as large numbers of its youth are hooked hopelessly on to drugs such as opium, heroin and a range of synthetic painkillers."Punjab is teetering on the edge of an extraordinary...
Can't live without screens? You might have a problem 2010-06-28
Have you ever interrupted childbirth, coitus, a wedding, funeral or graduation ceremony to send a text? Does the thought of going cold turkey from technology make you want to daub your social networking status in your own blood across...
Goff's drug-use denial 'typical for parents' 2010-06-28
Labour leader Phil Goff's denial that his daughter has ever taken drugs is a typical reaction for parents faced with evidence of drug use by their children, says the Drug Foundation.Police charged Sara Goff, 25, with possession...
Police analyse calls, texts after drug raids 2010-06-28
Police are analysing 20,000 intercepted phone calls and text messages as part of their Operation Granite swoop on clandestine laboratories allegedly used for making the drug P.The figure was referred to as those arrested appeared...
Father arrested over drugs outside son's prison 2010-06-28
Corrections Department staff say it was a sad and ironic twist that a man taking money to his son in prison was himself arrested yesterday when drugs were found in his car.The man was not allowed to enter the Auckland Central...
China: 16 percent rise in drug cases last year 2010-06-28
China says drug cases shot up 16 per cent last year from 2008 with courts convicting more than 56,000 people.Chinese courts handled more than 50,000 drug trafficking cases in 2009 and about 17,000 people received severe sentences...
Report slams drug testing 2010-06-28
A high school that forced students to strip to their underwear while they underwent drug tests has promised to adopt new disciplinary procedures.Investigators have found that Rotorua Boys'High may have infringed the Bill of Rights...
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