Crime

Startling details have emerged of a case involving dozens of pharmacists in the upper North Island dispensing an illegal prescription for popular painkiller tramadol and the antibiotic, metronidazole

Startling details have emerged of a case involving dozens of pharmacists in the upper North Island dispensing an illegal prescription for popular painkiller tramadol and the antibiotic, metronidazole

The maker of herbal supplement Arthrem plans to fight charges laid by the Ministry of Health over reports of liver harm linked to the supplement

A man who broke a woman's finger when he attacked her in a Christchurch pharmacy has been jailed for 18 months

A Christchurch pharmacy owner is recovering after being robbed at gunpoint by an “agitated” man whose face and body was completely covered up

A man who broke into a Blenheim pharmacy to steal medications was startled by the alarm and fled empty-handed.

A GP who tried to murder a pharmacist with a 15cm fishing knife after she reported him to Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency will spend at least 10 years behind bars

Erectile dysfunction meds are the most common illicit medicines seized at New Zealand’s border followed by antibiotics and insomnia medicines

A "rough sleeper" has admitted a raft of charges that culminated in death threats and the assault of a central Christchurch pharmacy worker

Police are extremely concerned about man who robbed an Upper Hutt pharmacy for prescription drugs