Crime

Pharmacists say they are seeing an increase in drug seeking since pseudoephedrine-containing medicines returned to their shelves and are calling for a national register to record sales of the products

A Motueka pharmacy may have been the first in the country to get burgled for pseudoephedrine in 13 years, less than a week after the product became available again

A man has been arrested following an armed holdup at a Christchurch pharmacy, while another offender is being sought for an Auckland robbery reports Natasha Jojoa Burling

A LAW CHANGE THAT will allow pseudoephedrine cold and flu products to be sold by pharmacists again has taken another step forward.

The health select committee has recommended that the legislation to return pseudoephedrine to pharmacy shelves proceed to its second reading without changes

A man has been arrested following an armed holdup at a Christchurch pharmacy

When a staff member called out to Ross Anderson from the dispensary in his Unichem Rangatira pharmacy, he did not expect to be greeted by an armed robber. 

The ACT Party’s election promise to return pseudoephedrine to pharmacy shelves is one step closer to fruition after the law change passed its first reading in Parliament on 20 February.

Two organisations have called for a real-time monitoring system to stop addicts or drug manufacturers shopping around for the precursor to methamphetamine

Staff at a Christchurch pharmacy are in shock after an armed robbery