An archive of recent news articles on the topic of alcohol and drugs.
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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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Matt McCarten: It's time to snuff out capitalism's worst offender
24th March 2009
A mate of mine recently died from lung cancer. He was a heavy smoker. After taking up the tobacco drug as a teenager to be cool, he never stopped and the addiction killed him. We've heard the story many times. Years from now, our descendants will marvel how our society believed in free enterprise to the point they legally permitted international corporations to hook young kids on to a product everyone knew killed half of them.
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One shot solution to problem drinking
19th March 2009
Personalised feedback can help reduce the intake of problem drinkers, new research shows. Dr Heleen Riper of the Trimbos Institute in Utrecht in the Netherlands and her colleagues looked at 14 studies of single, brief interventions, involving a total of 3,682 people. For every eight people who participated, they found, one could be expected to curb their drinking.
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Three held in $4.8m drug haul
18th March 2009
Three people have been arrested at Auckland International Airport in a drugs haul that netted enough of the chemical ContacNT to make P worth $4.8 million.
The three people - all from Hong Kong - are each alleged to have been carrying between four and five kilograms of the chemical when they were caught at Auckland Airport at different times during the weekend.
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Where cocaine was sent in the diplomatic pouch
17th March 2009
CONAKRY - When the planes arrived loaded with cocaine, it was Guinea's presidential guard that secured the cargo. Drug deals were conducted inside the first lady's private residence and in the president's VIP salon at the international airport. To avoid detection, cocaine was sent to Europe in the country's diplomatic pouch.
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Drug ring run from SkyCity
17th March 2009
EXCLUSIVE: A multimillion-dollar drug syndicate used SkyCity Casino's VIP lounge as an office to plan P deals across the upper North Island. The gang's ringleader, Ri Tong Zhou, 41, was this week jailed for 15 years after admitting more than 30 methamphetamine-related charges, including the supply of more than $3 million worth of P in just two months.
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Heroin eating away at nation
12th March 2009
MOSCOW - At a playground just off the busy Prospekt Mira thoroughfare in central Moscow, there aren't any children playing on the swings. The slide is covered in dirty snow, the sandpit is strewn with empty vodka bottles and, on close inspection, a few used syringes. Mothers whisper to each other that the playground is the home of narkomany - drug addicts - and wheel their pushchairs swiftly past.
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