A high school renowned for producing a string of Kiwi sporting stars has been accused of inappropriately drug-testing some students.

A sickness beneficiary with a taxpayer-subsidised state house was instead living in an upmarket Auckland suburb and driving luxury cars worth $250,000.

A tinny-house sting that swelled to a mammoth drug operation has put 258 people behind bars and unearthed more than a dozen P labs.

Millie Elder is is back before the courts after an alleged altercation with police trying to arrest her gang-connected boyfriend.

Students, office workers and retired people flocked to a South Auckland house to buy cannabis from a mother of five children under seven.

Public access to a widely-used class of painkillers containing codeine is likely to be restricted within months over addiction fears.

A rise in P-related crime, and criminals' increased use of guns, has lead to armed officers routinely accompanying general-duties police to call-outs.

P-cooks are increasingly setting up P-labs in workplace carparks so staff can buy the drug during their tea breaks, a drug detection agency says.

The $1.5 billion methamphetamine industry has enabled crime kingpins to spread their influence "into the nice end of town", the Police Association says.

Lucci Hennah has lived through the scourge of P in the family - and come out the other side smiling.