A shocking photograph of a woman who injected drug in public at a children`s park in Perth has drawn attention from Australian netizens, warning of the worsening problem of drug flooding in Australia.
According to the Daily Mail, a tourist took the shocking picture of a woman injecting drug in front of all her parents and young children in Harmony Park, south-west of Perth, in Willagee. The woman sat on the grass, her handbag on the ground, the things in the bag falling out, her left hand holding the needle, an excited tourist asked the traffic police to take her away. A girl wrote on Facebook: "what happened to the world when the children were still playing in the park?" Does anyone know this junkie? The traffic police moved her aside without calling the police. "
After the photo attracted attention, a large number of angry netizens left a message below saying that the drug problem in Australia, especially Perth, was out of control. One woman said: "I also found needles in the children`s school bunker." Many netizens also share their own experience of seeing needles.
In response, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission said Perth had in the past been referred to as the "capital of Australia`s methamphetamine." In a global comparative test, Australia was the second most active drug user after Slovakia.
Although Western Australia has been named "the capital of methamphetamine," Sydney is the most heavily consumed city of cocaine and the Northern Territory has the highest use of alcohol and tobacco.
Western Australian police have been contacted, but they cannot confirm whether the matter is under investigation.
