Mark talks to Miles Stratford from Meth Solutions Released 09 June 2016 Meth has become a major problem in New Zealand for many years with both physical and emotional harm. In this itunes podcast, Mark and Miles discuss the following: Manufacturing in the home. The bigger the test number the more likely it’s been manufactured in […]
30 April 2016 – Author: Adele Redmond – Source: stuff.co.nz The tell-tale signs of a meth lab never change. Stained walls and door frames, trash overflowing with pill packets, blackened windows and CCTV-style security are usually evidence that an ordinary house harbours illegal secrets. MethScreen’s Kevin says New Zealand’s most dangerous drug is often an invisible one. Kevin and partner Tracey have been testing South Island […]
22 March 2016 – Source: NZ Herald Nearly 280 state houses tested positive for meth contamination in the nine months to December, Housing New Zealand confirmed last week. It spent about $12 million to $13 million a year on remedial work. It’s feared P-riddled homes could rival NZ’s leaky homes disaster, with thousands thought to […]
21 March 2016 – Author: Deidre Mussen – Source: stuff.co.nz It was a dream that went up in smokes. A Kapiti couple and their two young daughters moved into what they thought was a perfect house. However, now they are homeless after discovering their newly-bought house is contaminated with methamphetamine. Their plight and others in […]
20 September 2015 – Author: Ava Benny-Morrison – Source: Sydney Morning Herald A septic tank had to be dug up, bedrooms gutted, land decontaminated and surfaces scrubbed. Making the house, north of Sydney, habitable again after it was used for an elaborate meth lab was no small or cheap feat. “That job was $250,000 by the […]
12 September 2015 – Author: John McCrone – Source: stuff.co.nz Could a tenth of all New Zealand motel rooms now be toxic from P smoking? Is every property investor at risk of huge methamphetamine clean-up bills? JOHN McCRONE reports on the growing meth decontamination industry. Marketing an ex-meth house has its problems. How do […]
13 June 2015 – Author: Talia Shadwell – Source: stuff.co.nz Holiday-makers from hell are trawling popular accommodation booking websites to find sites to house their mobile P-labs – coating walls and carpets in noxious chemicals that can cost up to $20,000-$50,000 range to strip and decontaminate. Kiwis baches are being contaminated by strangers’ makeshift methamphetamine […]
25 January 2015 – Authors: Lorna Knowles and Alison McClymont – Source: ABC News Australia is in the grip of an ice epidemic and hundreds of clandestine drug labs are springing up around the country each year, in suburban homes, motels and even in car boots and trucks. Authorities warn the labs are leaving a […]
22 December 2014 – Author: Alyse Edwards – Source: ABC News Queensland police are campaigning for national laws to protect residents from the toxic side effects of clandestine drug laboratories. The state is Australia’s methamphetamine production capital, according to police, with more than 600 undercover drug operations uncovered in homes, rental properties and businesses over the […]
4 June 2014 – Author: Stephen Smith – Source: sourceable.net All around the world, a growing phenomenon of using private and often rented accommodation as laboratories for producing methamphetamine is causing enormous headaches for property owners and neighbours and spawning a new wave in construction related litigation. Methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth, P or […]