Backpackers who overdosed on hyoscine to pay medical bills

• A group of backpackers overdosed on hyoscine, mistaking it for a bag of cocaine
• The last of the nine to be taken till has woken up in hospital in a stable condition
• They have apologised for their actions and vowed to repay their medical costs 

By Yael Brender For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:48 GMT, 7 January 2018 | Updated: 23:50 GMT, 7 January 2018

A group of backpackers who nearly lost their lives in a bizarre drug overdose have offered to repay their medical bills for the treatment that saved them.

The nine travelers have broken their silence on their ‘stupid mistake’, explaining that they opened a package sent to their mailbox addressed to someone else, found white powder inside and assumed it was cocaine.

According to Perth Now, it was actually hyoscine, which is a motion-sickness medicine often abused as a date-rape drug.

A group of backpackers who overdose on hyoscine five days ago have now spoken to media

Nine travelers have broken their silence on the ‘stupid mistake’ that led to their mass overdose

It took less than five minutes for them to be stricken with extreme hallucinations and paralysis – the outcome of what the group described as ‘probably the most stupid mistake they had ever made’.

Luckily a friend arrived to the Victoria Park property just in time to call 000 and save the lives of the two women and seven men.

‘You can’t move your legs…You can’t speak, you can’t say “help us”,” revealed one of the backpackers, explaining the effect that the drug has on the body. 

Emergency services discovered nine seriously ill people in different states of unconsciousness

The men were taken to Royal Perth Hospital, with the last of the group waking up on Monday

A quick-thinking friend called 000, who found nine backpackers seriously ill at a Perth house 

The last of the nine people woke up on Monday morning – five days later – with his condition changing from ‘critical’ to ‘stable’.

At the suggestion of the State Government, the group have promised to pay their medical bills for the life-saving treatment they received in Australia, which ‘could run into thousand of dollars’.

‘Of course we have to pay for the mistake,’ said one of the men. ‘There’s no point that the taxpayers have to pay for us. It is our mistake.

‘It is the least we can do to thank the paramedics,police and hospital staff who saved us,’ he said.’Thank you to Australia…And, sorry again.’

The last of the nine backpackers to overdose on hyoscine has woken up in a stable condition

The group have promised to pay their medical bills for the life-saving treatment they receieved

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