Many pot smokers who smoke and drive will say they're fine to get behind the wheel. Mythbusters looks at the evidence to see whether this is really so.
Drug courts are effective in helping offenders face up to their addictions and get the help they need. Or are they just an expensive waste of time? You decide.
Gerald Waters lost a dear friend to a repeat drunk driver and became bewildered at our justice system's failure to address substance use as a root cause of so much crime. He now wants a drug court in New Zealand.
Seems the inventor of the psychoactive chemicals found in synthetic cannabis products has little nice to say about the profiteering purveyors of these untested chemical compounds.
Mongrel Mob women in Porirua are taking positive steps to make better life choices in an environment where drinking and drug taking are the norm.
Welfare beneficiaries who use alcohol and drugs are likely to be targeted under a new, tougher regime if recommendations by the Welfare Working Group are introduced. The government-appointed group has found the current system is too permiss
In our third segment looking objectively at both sides of a contentious issue, we consider whether ibogaine should be approved as a treatment for withdrawal and dependence.
A number of CAYADs are working to develop evidence-based alternatives to help keep kids in school instead of excluding or suspending them.
Steve Walsh is now sober and enjoying a life of mountain biking and art galleries. Steve talks to Keri Welham.
We talk with Chris Raine, a remarkable young Australian whose innovative and courageous online programme is helping many question and overcome the prominence of alcohol in their daily lives and culture.
Where better to talk about alcohol law reform than at the pub? Christchurch CAYAD co-ordinator Mike Moss reports on how an organised debate went down with the locals.
New Zealand research got tounges wagging around the world by claiming some alcohol costs less than bottled water. Surely that can't be true, can it?