Unresponsive drug addicts who appear to be under the influence of the deadly opioid fentanyl have been spotted at a major Melbourne train station.
Footage taken at Southern Cross railway station on Wednesday night shows one man bent over between the Hungry Jack’s and Burgertory restaurants on Spencer Street, while police and paramedics walk past.
The posture is known as the “fentanyl lean” or “fentanyl fold” due to the opioid’s unique effect on the central nervous system, and is commonly seen in addicts on the street of American cities, where the dangerous drug has caused hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths.
Drug addict bent over on fentanyl at Melbourne’s Southern Cross station last night.
He was in this position for about 40 minutes, and was ignored by police and paramedics.
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Shocked locals told Noticer News the man was in the bent-over position for about 40 minutes, and said it was “evidence of the decay of Melbourne”.
“I hate what’s happening to my country,” one said.
The person who took the footage from inside the Hungry Jack’s outlet said the man was ignored by Victoria Police Protective Service Officers patrolling the station, and by paramedics who “saw the individual and didn’t attend before driving off”.
The video also shows multiple commuters walking around the drug user.
The disturbing scenes come after Victoria’s Labor state government rolled out free vending machines containing the drug naxolone, which is used to reverse opioid overdoses, as part of a $95.11 million program to “reduce drug harms and expand care”.
Earlier this year authorities warned drug users to carry naxolone after a spate of overdoses caused by cocaine containing opioids across Victoria, and said the dispensing machine trial would help expand access.
“Overdose can affect people taking prescribed opioid medicines like, fentanyl, people using illicit drugs, or people who unknowingly take substances that contain opioids,” the government said.
“Highly potent synthetic opioids like nitazenes are also making overdoses faster and more difficult to predict and are being found in substances such as cocaine, ketamine and MDMA.”
Header image: Left, right, footage of the drug user (Noticer News).
