Addiction Help for Party Pills in New Zealand
One amazing thing about addiction help is it comes in all shapes and sizes. New Zealand is finally getting around to banning party pills that can be bought anywhere – even at a gas station.
Party pills are banned in New Zealand as of March 14, 2008, but suppliers have until April 1st to “dispose” of their stocks. The pills - with names like Frenzy, Torque, and D-lite - are used as a recreational stimulant and are sometimes compared to MDMA. The manufacturers say they will be driven out of business after BZP (benzylpiperazine) becomes illegal to sell but, in the meantime, they don’t have to destroy their current stocks - they can still sell them.
The same pills were banned in the U.S. in 2002 and in Australia and Denmark in 2005.
Benzylpiperazine was originally used to treat cattle for bowel parasites so I am guessing they not only get you high - you can use them for a colon cleanse.
There haven’t been any recorded deaths from the use of these over-the-counter party pills but people that use them and drink have fallen into comas. Matt Bowden of the Social Tonics Association of New Zealand is afraid that people will now look for illegal drugs to replace the over-the-counter drugs. Maybe the same people can chug three or four energy drinks to get the same effect and they won’t graduate to street drugs.
New Zealand has been slow on banning these drugs, but at least no one has died and the need for addiction help services has not changed that much.
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BZP was never used as a cattle drench.
Also, there has been I think one person fall in to a coma after using BZP - they were using plenty of other things as well, such as large amounts of alcohol.
Please, please actually read the research, instead of what vote grubbing politicians use as the latest threat that they need to protect us from.
Comment by Nathan Ward — March 18, 2008 @ 9:24 pm