Completed Projects

Legal party pill use in New Zealand

The principal aims of the 2006 National Household Survey of Legal Party Pill Use were to provide national population statistics on the prevalence and patterns of legal party pill use (i.e. benzylpiperazine or BZP) in New Zealand, and to provide data on the harms and problems related to the use of legal party pills in New Zealand. The survey report is available to download at the link below:

Legal party pill use in New Zealand

The funding for the research was awarded from the National Drug Policy Discretionary Grant Fund which is jointly managed by the Inter-Agency Committee on Drugs (IACD) and the Ministerial Committee on Drug Policy (MCDP). The survey consisted of a random national household sample of 2,010 people aged 13-45 years old collected using the Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (SHORE) and Whariki’s in-house computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) system. The research was lead by Dr. Chris Wilkins with Melissa Girling, Paul Sweetsur, Taisia Huckle and Dr. John Huakau.