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Kōrero: Drugs

Use of hard drugs

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This table shows the extent of the use of various drugs in New Zealand on the basis of a 2007/8 survey of 6,500 New Zealanders aged 16–64. Compared with overseas patterns there is a high use of party pills, ecstasy and amphetamines, but a comparatively low use of opiates and cocaine.

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Jock Phillips, Drugs – Hard drugs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/graph/39572/use-of-hard-drugs (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 15 November 2012.