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Revenge of the Hastings Incubus

1 Oct 2017

The long, mostly hidden and quietly swoony story of the Kiwi relationship with heroin (diamorphine): Redmer Yska traces New Zealand’s history of heroin.

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Music culture

1 Jul 2017

Redmer Yska pores through the history of NZ song to show how perception of drug use changed over time.

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LSD: New Zealand’s LSD history

1 Mar 2017

Redmer Yska tells how LSD rose, fell and is maybe rising again for both recreational and therapeutic uses.

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Veronal: who remembers veronal?

1 Aug 2016

Redmer Yska delves into the dramatic side effects of a once-popular barbiturate.

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Drug history: James K Baxter: poetry and political influence

1 May 2016

You may know Hemi Baxter as one of our finest poets, but did you also know that he helped shape our current drug law?