Providing safe smoking kits could reduce harm from meth use – but NZ law won’t allow it

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Providing safe smoking kits could reduce harm from meth use – but NZ law won’t allow it

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

Methamphetamine was recently ranked New Zealand’s second-most harmful drug behind alcohol, and is the country’s most injected drug. Injecting drugs is associated with additional risks such as vein and soft tissue damage, bacterial infection and blood-borne virus transmission. Many of these harms have been reduced by the work of the national Needle Exchange Programme, which provides sterile equipment and education to those who need it. Safer smoking kits – including high quality glass pipes, p...

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Research paper

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Article

Date created

2025-05-27

Creator

Whelan, Jai

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/46499

Related subjects

New Zealand / methamphetamine / drug harm reduction / drug abuse treatment

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