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As Kiwi homeowners spend millions each year fixing P-contaminated houses, a drug detection expert has opened up on how to spot a drug house in your neighbourhood. The surge in P-contaminated homes – badly damaged from their use as P labs or from previous inhabitants’ personal use of methamphetamine – has been likened to …
An increase in the number of employees testing positive for drugs in Northland could be due to businesses readying themselves for new health and safety regulations to come into effect next month. The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA) tested 5000 Northland people last year, with seven per cent (350) testing positive. Methamphetamine made up 19.6 per …
Methamphetamine is being detected in an increasing proportion of failed workplace drug tests in New Zealand and the head of the testing agency is worried about the social impacts of the drug’s resurgence. The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA) figures show 6.19 per cent of all workplace drug test were positive last year, and 6.14 per …
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By using multipliers for the data based on population numbers, the researchers found that, in 2013–14, there were 268,000 regular methamphetamine users and 160,000 dependent users aged 15 to 54 years in Australia. “This equates to population rates of 2.09% for regular and 1.24% for dependent use,” the study said. “The rate of dependent use …
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The Drug Detection Agency is stepping up efforts against workplace drug and alcohol use in Waikato, with new owners Graeme and Leona Smith keen to create safe work and living environments. Graeme and Leona Smith bought the Waikato-Coromandel arm of the agency recently and, together with a team of 10, provide a comprehensive range of …
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Some of Northland’s largest organisations are tightening up their drug testing policies for staff amid stricter workplace regulations amid news the region’s rate of failed employee drug tests after workplace incidents is more than double the national average. Glenn Dobson, group general manager of The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA), which operates a branch in …
An increasing number of law firms are drug testing job hopefuls amidst the rising number of highly publicised incidents involving lawyers using or selling drugs. Law firm partners are increasingly concerned with potential reputational damage that might stem from a lawyer getting caught up in a drug related scandal. The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA), which …
Fears lawyers are increasingly turning to drugs has prompted top New Zealand law firms to drug test incoming employees. With a number of high-profile cases of lawyers being on the wrong side of the dock for drug offences, the number of lawyers being tested for P, cocaine, and cannabis has jumped in the past …
The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA) CEO Kirk Hardy talks candidly about industry leading innovation, the frightening and rapid rise of the drug Ice and how TDDA franchisees are making a positive difference in both workplaces and the wider community. TDDA is the industry leader in on-site workplace drug testing and this year celebrates 10 years …
A second Northlander involved in cooking one of the largest amounts of methamphetamine ever in New Zealand has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. Anthony Hone Mangu was among a number of people arrested as part of police drug operation – code-named Operation Easter – in late 2014. The 34-year-old father of seven – …
