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Speaker 1: To the meth lollies. The cops are now investigating. Up

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Speaker 1: to four hundred people are being urgently contacted. At least

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Speaker 1: eight families are known to have been infected affected rather,

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Speaker 1: including a child. Three people have sought medical assistance. The

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Speaker 1: disguised pineapple flavored lollies were donated by an unknown member

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Speaker 1: of the public to the Auckland City.

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Speaker 2: Mission early yesterday afternoon. We received an alert of concern

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Speaker 2: by a food parcel recipient who said that they had

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Speaker 2: tried funny tasting lollies.

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Speaker 1: The Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helmers with me. Now, hey, Sarah, hey, here,

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Speaker 1: how much myth is in each of these lollies?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very concerningly. The sample we have tested, or samples,

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Speaker 3: I should say, we're one hundred percent mes. The lollies

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Speaker 3: weighs three grams, So each lolla represents three grams of myth. Now,

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Speaker 3: three grands of myth. Yet normally, if you were going

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Speaker 3: to take it on purpose, you'd be taking fifteen ish

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Speaker 3: micro so represents something like three hundred doses in each lollie.

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Speaker 1: Okay? Is that enough for even an adult if you

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Speaker 1: were to consume the whole thing to overdose late?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, lethal most likely.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, you're obviously not going to consume the whole

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Speaker 1: thing because it tastes really, really awful. So if you're

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Speaker 1: just having a suck of it before you realize that

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Speaker 1: something's wrong with it, how much trouble are you in?

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Speaker 3: It could be still a range of effects, so you're

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Speaker 3: likely to still feel an effect, possibly still needing to

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Speaker 3: seek medical attention. So we're really urging anyone who knows

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Speaker 3: anyone that's received a City Mission package to get in

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Speaker 3: touch with them that might have one on these their

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Speaker 3: possession or have taken something, to seek help immediately.

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Speaker 1: Don't wait, is this a drug delivery gone bad?

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Speaker 3: Look, we've made a few guesses about what it is,

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Speaker 3: so it's worth a lot of money. So we don't

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Speaker 3: think anyone would have done it on purpose, or at

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Speaker 3: least donated it on purpose. Obviously the packaging is very intentional.

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Speaker 3: It's quite normal for drug smuggling to occur in food

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Speaker 3: products or in food packaging. It's happened here before, and

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Speaker 3: certainly in terms of lollies, it's happened internationally. So we

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Speaker 3: think that something has gone awry and somebody's ended up

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Speaker 3: thinking we're holding a bag of lollies. But anyway, we

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Speaker 3: really don't know until further investigation is carried out. We've

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Speaker 3: been quite focused on, you know, testing that sample, making

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Speaker 3: sure that the people who need to know in terms

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Speaker 3: of like the poison line etc. Are informed, and then

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Speaker 3: today we've spent much of the day contacting other frontline

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Speaker 3: organizations to check what's going on for them.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Sarah, Thank you very much for talking oster

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Speaker 1: at Sarah howl and the New Zealand Drug Foundation executive director.

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