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A study from a world-leading trauma expert has shown MDMA psychotherapy can help patients overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Audio

At festivals, a volunteer-based service runs quality-control on illegal drugs. Audio

Getting and keeping is staff is one of Corrections biggest challenges, in the face of a rising prison population, including more violent extremist inmates. The Department's has launched yet another… Video, Audio

Meth dealers in New Zealand are driving increasingly sophisticated and profitable operations, so much so that police now call them "criminal business entities".  Audio

National's promised to crack down on gangs in its first hundred days in government. So what is that actually going to look like in a town like Opotiki where gang tensions are simmering to boiling… Audio

Dr Emma Nolan and her team at Auckland University is collecting breast cancer samples with the aim of setting up lab models that mimic the breast cancer environment. She talks to Kathryn about the… Audio

Pathologist professor Richard Scolyer's melanoma research is credited with saving tens of thousands of lives, but now he's in a race to save his own. Audio

She's a psychiatrist by day, and a stand-up comedian by night - but parenting has been her toughest gig yet. Dr Jo Prendergast has written a how-to parenting guide called 'When Life Sucks'. It offers… Audio

A New Zealand woman who moved to Australia with her son for life-saving cancer treatment is describing the National Party's promise, if elected, to fund new cancer drugs as "wonderful" but… Audio

A huge Mongrel Mob tangi in Ōpōtiki has thrown up some stark contrasts in the way different towns deal with gangs. Audio

To study how psychedelic drugs can help treat mental illness, Dr Paul Liknaitzky is giving Australian trial participants high doses of psilocybin – a hallucinogenic compound found in some fungi… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to look at what was included in the latest Budget, the fourth in two years. The $7.5b plan is designed to help ease the cost of living ahead of new… Audio

A 501 deportee, turned Evangelist Chaplain promised god he would never fire another gun - a promise that became near impossible to keep when he ended up working on the front line in Ukraine.

After… Audio

More than half the 501s sent from Australia to Aotearoa have committed crimes since arriving, with more than 14,000 offences since 2015.

New police data shows the proportion of reoffenders has jumped… Video, Audio

In today's Focus on Politics, Political Reporter Katie Scotcher looks back on a trade deal both sides found fault with, and ahead to the challenges it still faces.  Audio

US researchers have suggested that some artificial sweeteners could affect the way the body metabolises particular drugs, including antibiotics, antidepressants and antivirals. Dr Ali Hill from the… Audio

Health is one of the major budget items, with $11.1 billion over the next four years.

It's the biggest government investment in health to date with a huge focus on creating Health NZ and a Māori… Video, Audio

A former drug dealer, who's spent half his life in prison, says gangs are a scourge and must be outlawed. Rotorua based Bill McFarlane once ran a large methamphetamine operation in the Bay of Plenty… Audio

Cancer patients want the government to step up as many struggle to fund their own treatment.

A report by the Cancer Control Agency has found 18 gold-standard cancer medicines are funded by Australia… Audio

Every year more than a thousand New Zealand cancer patients can't get drugs that are readily available across the Tasman.

The report by the Cancer Control Agency, Te Aho o te Kahu, was aimed at… Audio

The Health Minister says emergency cancer drug approvals overseas are making it difficult to identify which medicines New Zealand should fund.

The Cancer Control Agency released a report today, which… Audio

More than 1000 New Zealand cancer patients a year are missing out on gold-standard cancer drugs readily available in Australia.

The Cancer Control Agency, Te Aho o te Kahu, has released a report this… Audio

We continue our talanoa series on new research into drug trafficking in the Pacific. Audio

New Zealanders made the most of the covid-free environment during the summer period of 2020 and 2021 with large amounts of designer drugs detected in waste waster samples taken at the time. Audio

The government has signed an advance purchase agreement for 60,000 courses of an experimental antiviral drug - to treat people suffering mild or moderate Covid-19 symptoms.

The oral drug molnupiravir… Audio

The Drug Foundation organised a symposium at Parliament this week and one of the keynote speakers was Professor Nicole Lee from the National Drug Research Institute in Australia. She discusses the… Audio