New website advises retailers who sell solvents

The sellers of glue and other substances subject to abuse now have a website to check for advice.

The New Zealand Drug Foundation has put out a guide for retailers on managing the sale of volatile substances such as spray paints, glues and gases.

The products are problematic because they have legitimate household uses but can also be a means of intoxication.

The issue was in the news last month when the owner of a dairy was secretly filmed allegedly selling large quantities of isopropyl, which is used in the making of the class A drug methamphetamine.

Drug Foundation executive director Ross Bell said it was working alongside sellers of products as a way of reducing solvent abuse.

The guide can be found at www.volatilesubstances.co.nz.

- NZPA