An archive of recent news articles on the topic of alcohol and drugs.
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Prison chiefs praise drug unit's first graduates
15th April 2009
Ten prisoners have become the first graduates from Spring Hill prison's drug treatment unit. The Department of Corrections says the graduation will improve public safety because the unit has given the inmates the tools required to overcome their addictions.
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Auckand City's liquor ban reduces crime
14th April 2009
Crime in Auckland City dropped more than anywhere else in the country last year. National figures for 2008 issued yesterday show a 1.2 per cent increase in crimes reported to police - mostly because of rises in drug-related, violence and sexual offending. But Auckland City bucked the trend with 2259 fewer crimes reported than in 2007 and police say tougher enforcement of the city's liquor ban is behind the fall.
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Anti-smoking drive has stark message
9th April 2009
Five thousand New Zealanders die each year from smoking - the equivalent of losing a town the size of Alexandra. This is one of six stark facts presented by a new anti-smoking campaign, Face the Facts, developed by the Health Sponsorship Council and the Ministry of Health.
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Dog discovers drugs in heel of sandal at Auckland Prison
8th April 2009
Methamphetamine was found in a pair of sandals at Auckland Prison in Paremoremo yesterday when a drug dog sniffed out the drug in incoming mail. On searching the suspicious courier package, staff at the prison found a new pair of sandals - each with a heel full of methamphetamine.
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Unfiltered smoking warning
7th April 2009
Health officials and anti-smoking activists are counting on harsh facts to promote their cause in a new, hard-hitting campaign. "Half of all current smokers will die early from smoking," Wellington oncologist David Hamilton said. He said "5000 people die each year from tobacco use, which is the equivalent of losing a town about the size of Kaitaia or Alexandra".
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Smoking linked to SIDS
2nd April 2009
Babies born to smoking mums find it harder to rouse from sleep, say Australian researchers who have probed the link between cigarettes and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The Melbourne-based study found babies in homes where the mother smoked up to 20 cigarettes daily, during and after the pregnancy, performed poorer on arousal tests.
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Drug bosses dupe Asian landlords
1st April 2009
Asian landlords are being used as pawns in the illegal drug trade as dealers rent their properties as mailing addresses to import P precursors. With border seizures of precursors having increased by 1200 per cent in five years, Customs said it was finding containing the illegal trade "a huge challenge".
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Research sets new quit time
31st March 2009
Pregnant smokers have been given a new deadline to quit. Ground-breaking Auckland University research published in the British Medical Journal on Friday reveals pregnant women who smoke up to 15 weeks face no more risk of having a pre-term and small baby than if they had not smoked at all. But if they continue to smoke beyond that period they are three times more likely to have a baby born pre-term, and twice as likely to have an underweight baby.
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A simple puff may save smokers' lives
26th March 2009
Blowing into a tube could help find people at increased risk of getting lung cancer. The test, called a spirometry, is used to diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, also known as smoker's lung or emphysema. A study by Kiwi researchers has found people with COPD are six times more likely to get lung cancer than smokers without the disease.
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Schools given warning on drugs
25th March 2009
Any secondary school that doesn’t think it will have to manage drug-related behaviour has got its head in the sand, says Albany-based Fade executive director Colin Bramfitt. Mr Bramfitt says schools will always reflect the behaviour of the community. That is why he was so concerned by a recent North Shore Times story of bongs and P bags being sold by local dairies. Dairies selling such items are going against good parenting and organisations like Fade, he says. "It’s wrong. It shouldn’t be happening."
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