Alcohol and Drug Use

Over the past 48 years, Keith Crump has tried most of the opportunities a career in pharmacy can offer, but finds himself drawn back to his first love – the psych unit. He talks to Natasha Jojoa Burling

Over the past 48 years, Keith Crump has tried most of the opportunities a career in pharmacy can offer, but finds himself drawn back to his first love – the psych unit. He talks to Natasha Jojoa Burling

Overdoses from opiates are on the rise and the NZ Drug Foundation says we need to better prepared for a looming crisis 

The NZ Drug Foundation is pleased the Medicines Classification Committee has removed some of the red tape blocking access to the lifesaving, overdose reversal medication naloxone, although it wishes the committee’s recommendations had gone further.

Alcohol-related harm costs Aotearoa more than 7 billion dollars every year and is the leading cause of preventable death in Kiwis aged 15-49. Nearly 20% of all deaths for men, and 10% of all deaths for women are attributed to alcohol use

The New Zealand Drug Foundation is asking the Medicines Classification Committee to improve access to the lifesaving, overdose-reversal medication naloxone

Almost 50 New Zealanders die of accidental opioid overdoses each year, some of them from prescription medications, a new report from the NZ Drug Foundation reveals

Naloxone can help prevent deaths from opioid overdoses and the NZ Drug Foundation says it should be readily available in pharmacy

When the Government’s COVID-19 alert level system was announced in March 2020, the team at Te Puna Ora o Mataatua Charitable Trust (TPO) leapt into action

The Government will pass time limited legislation to give legal certainty to drug checking services, so they can carry out their work to keep New Zealanders safer this summer at festivals without fear of prosecution, Health Minister Andrew Little says