An archive of recent news articles on the topic of alcohol and drugs.
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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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Liquor Bill a concern for smaller retailers
11th March 2009
A bill aiming to clamp down on alcohol sales in communities will come as a relief to alcohol watchdogs, but not to some smaller retailers. The Sale and Supply of Liquor and Liquor Enforcement Bill was introduced to Parliament in August last year by the Labour government and passed its first reading in Parliament yesterday.
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Heavy drinking tied to depression
10th March 2009
Excessive alcohol drinking may increase the risk of depression, a long-term study conducted over 25 years in New Zealand has found. The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, involved a group of 1,055 children who were monitored and interviewed at various times over 25 years.
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Minister rules out tobacco ban
5th March 2009
The Government will not ban tobacco displays in shops, says Health Minister Tony Ryall. Confirmation of the decision, previously signalled by Prime Minister John Key, came yesterday in Mr Ryall's response to a petition which asked for cigarettes and tobacco to be stored out of sight in retail outlets.
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Sprinter reveals full extent of drug use
4th March 2009
Sprinter Dwain Chambers said he took a cocktail of more than 300 drugs in one year during which time he passed 10 doping tests. Chambers was the first high-profile victim of the BALCO scandal when he tested positive in 2003 for the previously undetectable steroid THG manufactured and distributed by Victor Conte, the founder of the California laboratory. The former European champion, 30, has since returned to competition after completing a two-year ban in 2006.
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