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'Didn't care about food - we needed meth'
Nathan Rakuraku started smoking cannabis at 7, meth at 15. Now clean, he shares his story.
Nathan Rakuraku started smoking cannabis at 7, meth at 15. Now clean, he shares his story.
David Herkt tells of his experiences with heroin and what he's learned.
It's increasingly making headlines but where does the 'zombie drug' come from?
NZ citizen arrested after police found cannabis worth $378,500 in a house in Ireland
Teachers are being kicked, punched and stabbed by children of P-addicted mothers.
Children suffering from exposure to meth in the womb are arriving at schools.
For more than a year, Britney would pick up a car and deliver drugs across Sydney.
Tauranga's meth problem is spiralling into an issue bigger than the Rena disaster.
Young woman reveals her drug battle in a quiet country town that nearly ended her life.
See the incredible transformation of a mother who quit her $1000-a-week ice addiction.
Auckland grandma cares for grandkids on and off while her children wrestle with addiction.
Cocaine, heroin and LSD among huge rise in drugs found in New Zealand's mail.
Hawke's Bay nannies who have seen first-hand the devastating effects of methamphetamine (P) on their families are taking a stand against
Harm Reduction at musical festival's tent an eye opener.
Helen Kirwan-Taylor discovers giving up alcohol does not necessarily solve your problems.
Cocaine is making a comeback in the US and it appears to be a case of supply driving demand.
A six-month rise in meth-related motorcycle burglaries has led to the creation of a new task force in Wairarapa.
A drug considered a potential chemical weapon and terrorist threat has been detected in Queensland, sparking an urgent warning from authorities.
Border Patrol agents in Arizona have dismantled an enormous drug catapult that was being used to launch illegal drugs into the United States from Mexico.
COMMENT: We need a return to the anti-drug movies of the 1930s as we fight a new danger destroying families and communities, writes Paul Charman.
People obsessed with having a tan are injecting a drug being illegally imported in to Australia that could slowly kill them.
Northlander jailed for selling drugs often met his young customers at the school boundary.
Twenty people have been arrested after a five-month police operation aimed at preventing the supply of methamphetamine and cannabis.
Scientists have called for a crackdown on doping in chess after it emerged players may be taking performance-enhancing substances.
Mongrel Mob president Rex Timu says P addiction fell from 80 to 10 per cent in his chapter, and has lodged a Waitangi Tribunal claim against 'racist' health policies.
A tenant advocate is hailing the Government for adopting a more "compassionate" line with state house tenants who get involved with drugs.
"In his mind drugs equalled sex and sex equalled drugs. My belief is he didn't separate that until the day he died," says former lover.
Michala Pyke who plied her four-year-old daughter with drugs before she died was jailed yesterday as shocking social services failures were laid bare.
Two people arrested during a police bust on the Daktory Whangarei cannabis club have been further remanded in custody for bail applications next week.