Article: First conviction for BZP supply

Article: Ban on BZP futile, warn pill retailers; BZP drug ...
The Press;  June 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of party pills have welcomed moves to ban BZP, but retailers warn that another type of ... Government moves to ban benzylpiperazine (BZP) are futile, retailers say, with second- generation, non-BZP pills already developed and about to hit ...

Article: Party-pill takers turn to needles; BZP use
The Press;  April 5, 2007 ;     674 words ... ... greater risk by injecting benzylpiperazine (BZP). The safety of the main active ingredient in party pills, BZP, has been under scrutiny from the Government ... three patients in the past year for using BZP intravenously. "We have had a couple of ...

Article: BZP pill stocks selling on street
The Nelson Mail;  April 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Party pills containing the class C drug BZP are being sold on the streets by people ... in shops nationwide, said that despite BZP being banned from shelves three weeks ago ... still buying it. "There is still a lot of BZP being sold on the streets." Banning the ...

Article: Illegal drugs expected to make comeback following BZP ban
The Press;  August 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Two months on from Government moves to ban BZP, surrogate party pills have yet to hit ... without a genuine legal high alternative, BZP users will turn to harder drugs like methamphetamine ... will be smuggled into the country once the BZP ban takes effect. "There are other drugs ...

Article: DRUGS : COMMISSION ASKS COUNCIL TO CONSIDER CRIMINALISING ...
European Social Policy;  September 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... substance called 1-benzylpiperazine (BZP). The Commission is acting on the advice ... the Council and follows an evaluation of BZP's risks, as a psychoactive drug, by the EMCDDA. The centre identified that BZP can cause medical problems, even if its ...

Article: BZP pills 'sold as ecstasy'
The Press;  May 29, 2008 ;     430 words ...Drug dealers are passing now- illegal BZP pills off as ecstasy to unsuspecting casual ... during his research he heard of cases where BZP had been sold as ecstasy. To those with little or no experience with drugs, BZP could have similar but minimised effects ...

Article: Dissociative and sympathomimetic toxicity associated with ...
Journal of Medical Toxicology;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... TFMPP is taken alone or in combination with BZP [1-benzylpiperazine]. Case reports ... analysis demonstrated the presence of TFMPP and BZP at concentrations of 263 [+ or -] 5 ... recreational use of TFMPP in combination with BZP, with clinical features not consistent ...