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Australia drugs: Backpackers in hospital after snorting white powder - BBC News
The backpackers, aged between 21 and 25, were staying at a property in the city's Victoria Park district when a package arrived in the post addressed to a previous occupant, one of the victims told the West Australian newspaper..
They decided to open the package and found a white powder inside, wrapped in a piece of paper bearing the word "scoop", said the man, who said his first name was Simone.
"Scoop" may have been a reference to "scopolamine", another name for Hyoscine.
Believing the powder to be cocaine, they divided it into nine doses and snorted it up their noses - only to quickly become paralysed and unable to summon help.
The backpackers, aged between 21 and 25, were staying at a property in the city's Victoria Park district when a package arrived in the post addressed to a previous occupant, one of the victims told the West Australian newspaper..
They decided to open the package and found a white powder inside, wrapped in a piece of paper bearing the word "scoop", said the man, who said his first name was Simone.
"Scoop" may have been a reference to "scopolamine", another name for Hyoscine.
Believing the powder to be cocaine, they divided it into nine doses and snorted it up their noses - only to quickly become paralysed and unable to summon help.
