A year-old mother walked into the centre. She was experiencing a meth-induced psychotic episode and needed help. The Centre manager, Lizzie McMillan, tried all the local services — the hospital, the health line, the AOD healthline and the Porirua Meth Reduction Group — but she had no luck finding anyone who could help the young woman. Instead, she took her home and helped her detox over the weekend.
Lizzie had no more luck finding professional support for the woman the following week and she and her team were left feeling frustrated and hopeless by the challenges and barriers facing those struggling with P addiction. These provided an opportunity for those affected by P to talk to someone face-to-face and get information about managing withdrawal and detoxing at home. An epidemic of injecting pharmaceutical Methedrine among young people in America and Great Britain was also mirrored here, but it received mostly scant publicity.
A turning point came in as a visiting British medical professor described doctors prescribing amphetamine-type drugs for patients who wished to lose weight as guilty of malpractice. However, another year passed before Burroughs Wellcome, which had aggressively marketed amphetamine for decades, finally withdrew both Dexedrine and Methedrine.
It took two more years for the Health Department to draw up regulations to ban amphetamines, finally restricting their supply to hospital pharmacies. As part of the new controls, local chemists were given three months to clear stocks. The extent of local prescribing and use may never be known.
The Ministry of Health refused to release related archival records for this article, citing privacy considerations. But a clue to the scope of our legal amphetamine story lies on page of the report of the Drug Dependency and Drug Abuse Committee. Redmer Yska Author and historian.
Articles on a public health approach to drugs in Aotearoa New Zealand are regularly published here. Sign-up for notifications. The government has begun making amends to HNZ tenants who were evicted after small amounts of methamphetamine contamination were found in th Worried about meth contamination? Injecting any drug is very risky, especially when needles and injecting equipment e.
Risks include infections such as HIV, hepatitis C, and sepsis, a bacterial infection of your injecting wound. Injecting can also lead to skin abscesses and collapsed veins. Using a wheel filter can help to remove impurities that cause infections. Use soap and water or alcohol swabs to clean your hands before using. Use your own mouthpiece or pipe to reduce risk of infections. Use a shatterproof Pyrex pipe. Other pipes or glass can get too hot or give off toxic fumes.
Avoid using broken or cracked pipes. Damaged pipes can lead to burns, cuts and infections. Smoking or snorting meth can cause your lips to become dried and cracked, or nose to bleed. This means increased risk of infections, especially when utensils are shared. Mixing drugs is always risky because it is hard to predict how one drug will affect another in your system.
See our Drug interactions section for more about the effects of mixing meth with other drugs.
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