“Cocaine has traditionally been consumed in small pockets of society,” Smith said. New Zealand Police manager of intelligence fusion teams Julia Smith said “like any commodity”, supply and demand had a large impact but these differed from drug to drug. The results were aggregated per capita from these sites and made up the results for consumption in the district. Over the past year, seven sites in Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatāne and Taupō were routinely sampled for the Drugs in Wastewater Testing programme.
“A change also doesn’t tell us whether there are more or fewer people using a drug, or whether it’s the same number of people using more or less.” Wastewater testing was a “bit of a blunt instrument” because it didn’t reveal details about harm or other behaviours and data captured a point in time, not necessarily what was happening day to day, Helm said. This is more akin to the supply we see in the USA and Central America than what our previous cocaine results have shown.”Ĭocaine users found it wore off quickly so they tended to re-dose and that increased the likelihood of addiction, Helm said.
“Additionally, we have seen more concerning fillers that have a greater risk of harm such as Procaine, Benzocaine and Lidocaine. “That alone means this cocaine will be stronger than people will be used to.
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