COMMENT: Digital age helping turn web content into 24/7 addiction.

The parents of 8-month-old Isaiah Neil have pleaded guilty to his manslaughter.

Tauranga's meth problem is spiralling into an issue bigger than the Rena disaster.

COMMENT: Pornography's proven harm should be treated as a public health problem.

Young woman reveals her drug battle in a quiet country town that nearly ended her life.

The severity of the crimes being committed by youth in Christchurch is escalating.

The rate of smoking in Whanganui has not changed in three years - despite almost $1.7 million being spent to stub out the habit. A

Hawke's Bay nannies who have seen first-hand the devastating effects of methamphetamine (P) on their families are taking a stand against

A Kiwi researcher is set to peer inside the minds of porn users.

Stacey Miller's sister's body was found dumped. These last words have haunted her ever since.

We need to stop demonising drugs and the people who use them, says Chris Rattue.

A man and a woman in Ohio, US, have been charged with child endangerment after their 8-year-old son reportedly overdosed on heroin

Northlander jailed for selling drugs often met his young customers at the school boundary.

JS050117NADWAI313.JPG: Reti Boynton of Kaitaia leads the anti-P hikoi to Waitangi after a five-day walk from Cape Reinga. PHOTO /

Child poverty is a multi-headed beast, writes Rachel Smalley. She tells of a visit to the emergency department and an agitated mother waiting for help.

Children using smartphones and tablets from an early age can have both troubling and positive consequences, a leading academic says.

Most of us have been living it up in party mode and having an extra glass or two. But it costs us more than we think.

School aged children don't know Mike King as the funny man, he's instead the guy on stage telling them it's ok to talk about problems and to ask for help.

The author and newspaper columnist AA Gill has died at the age of 62, following a brief battle with cancer.

A meth dealer and addict for 20 years, Australian Pat Smith recalls the night he fired a sawn-off shotgun at a man at point blank range. It turned his life around.

Video games are more addictive than ever. This is what happens when kids can't turn them off.

According to Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.

The more porn a man watches, the less sexually intimate he is with his female partner, a new study suggests.

In a Sydney property, a postmodern shaman grows psychedelic plants he says he uses for medicine - plus one man tells of how ecstasy has helped him overcome PTSD.

West Coast had highest rate

A vicar's wife has told a tribunal how her husband led a double life as a bisexual sex addict.

As a nationwide opioid epidemic raged, DEA investigators went after companies distributing millions of highly addictive pills. Then, their cases ground to a halt.

A woman who stole 300 pieces of mail to get money for her meth habit dodged a prison sentence in court today.

Methamphetamine addicts are flooding New Zealand's rehab services, with some reporting an 80 per cent surge in demand for services in the last six months.