A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still believes he was part of an undercover police operation.

Johann Hari from The Independent throws some light on Mexico's brutal drug wars between gangs and police.

A new wave of legal party pills has hit Whangarei secondary schools, with two parents asked to take their teens home after they arrived for class high.

A pilot fighting to get his job back after being sacked amid allegations of alcohol and drug abuse worked for Pacific Blue.

A man who spent three years infiltrating Auckland's crime networks has uncovered a drug trade on a staggering scale.

A $465,000 house has been seized from a commercial cannabis grower as punishment instead of an 18-month prison sentence.

Rodney Hide has emphatically denied in Parliament ever suggesting to another minister that Heather Roy had used drugs.

Police displayed weapons and drugs, including two "unusually large" rocks of crystal meth, from a bust on a Coromandel P lab.

Police this morning busted a P-lab in Auckland, a day after nationwide raids which netted 140g of the drug, as well as guns and a crossbow.

Police say some major players "are now out of the drug industry" after a nationwide P bust that was six months in the making.

Police have uncovered a P lab in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby.

A New Zealander with a long list of criminal offending has been deported from Australia after losing an appeal.

Kiwi parents' biggest fear is that their children will spiral into drug and alcohol addiction, a survey has found.