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.

Broadcasting star Paul Holmes has reconciled with his daughter Millie Elder in a bid to repair their broken relationship.

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.

A P lab was found in a $750,000-plus townhouse in a street containing some of Auckland's poshest homes, including that of Auckland Mayor John Banks.

Chinese drug smugglers are posting P ingredients to NZ in thousands of parcels each year, in an apparent shift in tactics.

A clandestine meth lab found on one of the country's poshest streets shows the drug can make its way into all communities, street resident and Auckland City Mayor John Banks says.

Two men and one woman will face drug-related charges after the discovery of a P-lab on one of Auckland's most elite streets.