A dramatic increase in people being admitted to hospital with severe reactions to party pills has experts calling for urgent action.
Four to five patients are being admitted to Wellington Hospital on a typical Saturday night after taking the new- generation pills, emergency doctor Paul Quigley says.
Patients were scared, jittery and anxious. “We’re getting semi-hysterical type [...]
19
May
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16
Apr
National leader John Key says his party would have sold a share of Auckland International Airport (AIA) to a Canadian group if it was in government.
%26bull; Clark defends airport decision
Mr Key said that as long as National considered AIA a strategic asset and as long as 51 per cent of it remained in New Zealand [...]
19
Mar
Moves by young ACT supporters to boost membership by selling cut-price party pills are grossly irresponsible, Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton says.
The group ACT on Campus sold the pills last month for $1 each to Auckland University students who joined their organisation.
Party pills will be illegal from April 1, after legislation classifying them as a [...]
19
Mar
The drought which has battered rural New Zealand for months is estimated to cost farmers more than a billion dollars - a figure the farming sector says is just the tip of the iceberg.
Drought bill impact on farmers
MAF estimates this summer;s drought, which has been sapping the life out of the country;s heartland, will [...]
13
Mar
Sellers of party pills have two weeks to clear their stocks before benzylpiperazine (BZP) is outlawed.
Your say: Party pill ban
Party pills banned
Parliament passed a bill last night banning the active ingredient from April 1 and classifying BZP as a class C drug - the same as cannabis.
Opposition parties branded the bill;s sponsor, Associate Health Minister [...]
11
Mar
About 1.2 million hectares of forest planted before 1990 could be locked up forever as forest because of the Government;s planned new deforestation land tax, according to a new lobby group.
A group of big and small forest and land owners, the Flexible Land Use Alliance, says that if the Government does not back down on [...]
20
Jan
When petrol prices hit $1.76 a litre two weeks ago it focused motorists; minds once more on the strange ways of the fuel market.
Crude oil prices go up, petrol goes up; crude oil prices go down, petrol prices stay up.
And like a flock of starlings, rival petrol retailers seem to have an uncanny ability to [...]
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