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Source: Alcohol Healthwatch Public health experts and social service and addiction services are alarmed at data released today from Statistics New Zealand showing rapid, substantial increases in the amount of alcohol on the shelves in the second half of 2020. This indicator represents the amount of alcohol excise paid by alcohol companies and is a proxy measure for the population’s drinking. Dr Nicki Jackson, Executive Director of Alcohol Healthwatch, and Lt Colonel Lynette Hutson, director of Salvation Army Addiction, Supported Accommodation and Reintegration Services (ASARS), say th...

Taxpayers' $500k for meth treatment goes up in smoke Newsroom 22/01/2021 © Provided by Newsroom A government contract for a P rehab programme was canned after half a million dollars of taxpayer money was given out. Aaron Smale investigates. The Ministry of Health spent over half a million dollars on a P Rehab contract before pulling the pin because there were no results or progress reports. The programme ended up being run by a community trust set up to help the marginalised, including gangs, despite having been pitched as a joint service with the Salvation Army, and announced by former P...