9 Dec 2021

The 2020 - 2021 summer was a time for hard partying in Aotearoa

From Afternoons, 1:20 pm on 9 December 2021

It appears 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.

Researchers in Australia have looked at samples taken from 10 different countries during the New Year period and found the highest levels of new psychoactive substances were here in Aotearoa.

The University of South Australia Associate Professor Cobus Gerber, talks to Jesse about what the findings tell us.

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