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Methamphetamine is becoming harder to get, more expensive and is poorer quality due to travel restrictions caused by Covid-19.
The change has prompted the NZ Drug Foundation to warn users that the substance they are currently getting their hands on may be a different strength or have different ingredients substituted so could be dangerous and result in hospitalisation.
The National Drug Intelligence Bureau said the international border closures had disrupted international methamphetamine supply chains and made it harder for the drug to get into New Zealand from its main sources Southeast Asia and North America.
The domestic travel restrictions placed on New Zealand during alert level 3 and 4 had also made it difficult for both the product and precursors to travel around the country.
The Herald has been told by a source that methamphetamine has been difficult to access for the past few weeks.
"It's impossible to obtain anywhere … and if it does pop up, you're having to pay high prices for your fix. It's ridiculous."
People were also being sold salts, MSM and other substances that looked like methamphetamine.
Drug bureau manager Detective Inspector Blair Macdonald said the majority of the drugs arrived in New Zealand via Auckland.
These drugs were then typically transported across the country and into the South Island on either regional flights or in vehicles using the Cook Strait ferries.
Macdonald said there was anecdotal evidence the price and availability of meth varied according to the region. In harder-to-reach areas such the South Island the price was higher.

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