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People working together can make a difference, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Leader Jim Anderton said today.

Everyone can play a part in suicide prevention – including the media, Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton said today.

Madam Speaker, In supporting the Prime Minister’s statement, and speaking as Leader of the Progressive Party, may I say that as one gets older, it is increasingly possible to see and particip

 The Government is looking forward to National Party backing for further measures to combat P, now that the Opposition has finally woken up to the threat the drug poses, Jim Anderton said toda

I welcome this forum and I am grateful for the opportunity to join you here. I welcome it because I think the issue of the harm caused by drugs and alcohol is important.

New research shows that use of illicit drugs like cannabis and P had social costs to New Zealand in 2006 of $1,310 million.

Five hundred lives a year - nearly ten a week - end in New Zealand through suicide. As many as are killed on our roads each year!

There is no quick fix in suicide prevention, Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton said today.

An action plan to be launched tomorrow will put grunt into the work being done by many agencies on suicide prevention, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said today

Those backing the continued sale of BZP did not have the best interest of New Zealand at heart, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said today.

Parliament passed the bill banning BZP-based party pills into law this afternoon, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said.

The bill which will ban BZP-based party pills became a step closer to law this evening, Associate Health Minister and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton said today.

Madame Speaker, I move that the Misuse of Drugs (Classification of BZP) Amendment Bill now be read for a second time.

It’s perhaps symbolic that we are here on a leap day - because days like this don’t come around very often.

The opening of a new youth residential facility run by Odyssey House was a

KiwiBank is to respond to the needs of older New Zealanders by launching a “reloadable” credit card, Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton announced today.

Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton says that Green Party Associate Health spokesperson Metiria Turei should check her facts and engage her brain before she pens press releases.

Early in 2008 is the earliest that BZP can now be banned

The Bill to classify BZP as a Class C1 drug will not now be passed until early in the new year, Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton said today.

There is no room for complacency

Suicide rates have dropped since the peak in the late 1990s but there is no room for complacency

Cannabis is the most prevalent illegal drug in New Zealand by far, and it is one New Zealanders have become worryingly complacent about.