Cocaine use continues to soar in New Zealand
Cocaine use continues to soar in New Zealand
16 December 2025
Wastewater data shows use of the Class A drug averaged about 6.4 kilos a week across the country, in the third quarter of 2025.
That's 43-percent above the average amount consumed in the previous four.
Auckland is emerging as our cocaine capital - with consumption in the past year of 271 milligrams per day per one-thousand people.
In quarter three it was narrowly ahead of Bay of Plenty - which averaged 325 milligrams consumed per one-thousand people each day.
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