five incidents<\/a> where people were believed to have overdosed on a substance thought to be GHB, commonly known as fantasy or liquid ecstasy.<\/p>\n“Sadly, one person has died in relation to this matter,” Jennings said.<\/p>\n
RNZ understands the woman died at Woofingtons, a luxury dog retreat with a mysterious background.<\/p>\n
Do you know more? Email sam.sherwood@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n
The castle-like mansion, nestled in the Wellington hills, is the subject of a recent TVNZ+ documentary series, What the Hell Happened at Woofingtons?<\/p>\n
The property was raided by police in 2019, with allegations of drugs, bombs and an armed burglary, though the only person charged was a staffer sentenced to community detention for possession of black powder in a pyrotechnic device.<\/p>\n
It was currently up for mortgagee sale.<\/p>\n
Jennings said on Friday three others remained in hospital, and one other person had been treated and discharged from medical care.<\/p>\n
“These incidents have occurred across the district, from Miramar, Brooklyn, Johnsonville, and Upper Hutt.<\/p>\n
“An investigation is underway and police are treating the matter as a priority given the risk to the public.”<\/p>\n
Jennings said police were urging the public to exercise caution, and anyone who may have this type of substance was urged not to consume it.<\/p>\n
“If you, or someone you know, are feeling unwell, please go to your nearest healthcare provider urgently.”<\/p>\n
Nearly half of GHB fake<\/p>\n
The Drug Foundation warned that nearly half of GHB tested was not what a person thought it was. Between January and March, 46 percent was not what the person expected, executive director Sarah Helm told RNZ.<\/p>\n
Helm urged anyone intending to consume the drug to get it tested first.<\/p>\n
She said the Drug Foundation had seen an uptake in the drug throughout New Zealand “for a wee while now”.<\/p>\n
The main concern was that it was very hard to tell which’G’ substance a person had, Helm added.<\/p>\n
“They’re very potent, very easy to overdose on,” she said.<\/p>\n
Helm also urged anyone intending to consume the drug to be very careful not to consume it with others, particularly alcohol and other depressants.<\/p>\n
“It can slow your body down, and then your body can begin to shut down.”<\/p>\n
Helplines<\/p>\n
Alcohol and Drug Helpline: 0800 787 797Narcotics Anonymous: NZ 0800 628 6321737 – free text\/phone to speak with a trained counsellorYouthline: 0800 376 633<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has died from a suspected drug overdose at Wellington castle-like mansion Woofingtons, RNZ understands. On Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-497443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}