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Smokers admitted to prison are given up to four weeks’ worth of Habitrol lozenges [Image - New Zealand Doctor]
There are concerns some people are going around pharmacies getting large quantities of nicotine replacement products and smuggling them into prisons. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports
Pharmacists have renewed calls for a national monitoring system for sales of Habitrol after reports have emerged that the nicotine replacement therapy, Nancy_Nasef, Auckland pharmacy owner Nancy Nasef says an ex-prisoner told her new prisoners were getting beaten up for their nicotine lozenges [Image: Supplied]
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