An archive of recent news articles on the topic of alcohol and drugs.
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Party pills restrictions just too late
10th November 2009
Anti-drug campaigners are welcoming yesterday's announcement of new restrictions on the sale of legal party pills, but say the Government should have acted at least a year ago. Drug Foundation president Ross Bell said he was pleased dimethylamylamine (DMAA) was being classified as restricted under the Misuse of Drugs Act but said the move had "taken far too long".
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Party pill inventor backs restriction
10th November 2009
Government action against a new breed of party pills has been heralded by the drugs' inventor as a positive change from last year's BZP-ban by Jim Anderton, then associate health minister. Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne has announced 1,3-dimethylamylamine, known as DMAA, will be scheduled as a restricted substance.
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Spiked drinks bring warning
5th November 2009
New Zealand experts are disputing a British study that drink-spiking with date-rape drugs is an urban myth. A Kent University study of more than 200 students found many women blamed the effects of a "bad night out" on date-rape drugs when they had drunk excessively.
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Workplace drug, alcohol-related claims cost ACC $80m
5th November 2009
ACC spent almost $80 million in one year on claims related to drug and alcohol use in the workplace, a health forum in Palmerston North heard yesterday. But the Accident Compensation Corporation hoped the $77.5 million bill could be slashed with the help of better employer education. The information was part of the Regional Health and Safety Practitioners Forum held at the Conference Centre.
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Tennis: Anti-doping body wants Agassi investigated
4th November 2009
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has asked tennis to investigate Andre Agassi's admission that he took crystal meth in 1997. Wada director general David Howman, of New Zealand, would not elaborate on what he wrote in the letter sent to the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) but did say he hoped it "would bring a considered response".
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Bay of Plenty tries to snuff out outdoor smoking
4th November 2009
Western Bay of Plenty District Council is trying to snuff out smoking outdoors with a smokefree policy targeting 30 of the district's beaches. They include the popular holiday spots of Waihi Beach, Maketu and Athenree - and the towns of Katikati and Te Puke.
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Doug Sellman: Time to look at alcohol ads and where they're to blame
3rd November 2009
Roger Kerr of the Business Roundtable has been repeating the tired old mantra that the answer to New Zealand's alcohol problem is for individual drinkers to be more responsible. Referring to Sir Geoffrey Palmer's report "Alcohol in our lives", he wrote: "The report misses the point that the whole emphasis in the debate should be on the responsibility of drinkers, not suppliers.
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Teen driver 'six times over the limit' - police
3rd November 2009
A 16-year-old schoolboy driving 11 other young people on a "booze cruise" was found to be six times over the alcohol limit when stopped by police in Oamaru at the weekend. It came just 24 hours after a vanload of teenagers driven by a 16-year-old girl who had been drinking crashed on the outskirts of Napier killing two of them and injuring several others.
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Tennis: Agassi tells of drugs, lies and a narrow escape
29th October 2009
Andre Agassi's autobiography contains an admission that he used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test - a result that was thrown out after he said he "unwittingly" took the substance.
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Kelleher slapped with suspended jail term
29th October 2009
PARIS - Former All Black halfback Byron Kelleher was sentenced today to a two-month suspended jail term for drunk driving and violence in a road-rage incident that made headlines in the French press.
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