NSW Crime Commissioner Michael Barnes has taken aim at the upper middle class who he says are glamorising illicit drug use.
NSW Crime Commissioner Michael Barnes has taken aim at the upper middle class who he says are glamorising illicit drug use, urging a “whole community” response to reduce the nation’s $12.4 billion appetite for illegal substances.had been successful but could only go so far in the face of burgeoning domestic demand.Australians spent $12.4 billion on methylamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and MDMA
“Upper-middle-class young people wearing business clothes and drinking red wine think it’s great to post pictures of people doing lines. You know that that makes it extremely difficult to convince other people that it’s a bad thing to do,” he said.ACT decriminalising small amounts “All the football codes keep it secret. You’ve got three free tests. That’s how widely acknowledged it is that our players are using illegal substances because we won’t even tell anybody until they hit the line three times.”
But the consequences of the drug trade went beyond the “tragic, terrible” harms of overdoses or gang-affiliated shootings in public places, underlining the impact on the health system, the cost of law enforcement and social dislocation. He pointed to successful public health campaigns to reduce the rate of smoking, drink-driving and unsafe sex during the AIDS epidemic as proof societal attitudes could be shifted.
As laid out in NSW Crime Commission’s 2023 annual report, Australians spent $10 billion on illicit drugs in the year to August 2022.
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