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Other Drugs
Ephedrine
Ephedrine has legitimate uses, including as a prescription medicine for a number of ailments. The EACD recently considered the classification of psuedoephedrine as a controlled drug and recommended to the Associate Minister of Health Hon Jim Anderton that pseudoephedrine be classified as a C3 controlled drug.
Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs Advice on Ephedrine
(Nov 2003).
Since this recommendation was made it has become apparent that ephedrine is also becoming a significant problem in New Zealand in terms of the illicit production of methamphetamine.
Latest news
Media release: Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine controlled drugs
(14 Oct 2004)
A government decision to classify ephedrine and pseudoephedrine as controlled drugs came into force on 15 October 2004.