Landlords have been paying for needless meth clean-ups - on the advice of officials.

Police say he is a key player in an international organised crime conspiracy.

Dozens of people turned out to an anti-P march in an Eastern Bay town plagued by the drug.

COMMENT: Legal cannabis should not be allowed to become a big business.

COMMENT: There's no guarantee that party drugs are what they claim to be.

Study finds early use of dope distorts growth patterns.

Australian physicians want to minimise harm.

Police Minister Stuart Nash says options being considered, including saliva testing.

Festival-goers across Australia have been sent an unnerving text message warning.

Two figures in New Zealand's biggest importation of P will spend 22 and 25 years in jail.

We aren't willing to address the health and wider social issues that drive drug harm.

Hip-hop artist Scribe sentenced to six months' supervision.

Man dies from combination of home-bake morphine and alcohol.

Video shows a woman holding the kitten as a man blows smoke from a bong at its head.

The Government assigned an extra $54.2m to help Customs combat drug cartels targeting NZ.

Some 46kg of cocaine was hidden in a compartment on the exterior of a ship's hull.

The cannabis they want to legalise is strong stuff these days.

National calls for tougher penalties but Drug Foundation says treat it as a health issue

Leiha Marie Walker was stopped by police while driving in the early hours of May 28, 2017.

Elizabeth Baird is nine months clean — after almost a decade battling drug addiction.

The cocaine had an estimated harm value of more than $235 million dollars.

An opioid overdose reversal agent, naloxone, is not freely available to users.

The man couldn't pass the drugs and went to hospital to remove them from his body.

The drug lord is behind bars but for his feared cartel, it's still business as usual.

Government soft approach on crime sees Dark Net drug dealers let off, say Nats.

Stacey Tierney found dead on a sofa with MDMA, cocaine and heroin in her system.

The Coroner has ruled that using synthetic drugs led to the deaths of two men,

A St John Ambulance spokesperson said the patients had collapsed.

Police have arrested and charged a man over the clandestine drug lab.

Mark Mitchell says residency decision is "rotten" and Govt should give details on case.