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Action to arrest the development of the hard drugs market and to limit the harm done by cannabis abuse - including cannabis abuse in the Far North and the East Coast - are the targets of the first

"The needs of young people are driving the decision to reclassify Ecstasy as a Class A drug," Health Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

This is my first formal address as Minister of Health. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to lay out some of my initial thoughts on my new portfolio.

"The identification of cases of the Sydney A strain of influenza is a timely reminder for people at risk to take advantage of free flu vaccines," Minister of Health Wyatt Creech said today.

After considerable discussion and work, we have now moved to deal with the issues related to the group of overseas trained doctors who gained permanent residence in New Zealand but were unable to p