Serge Lebigot is president of the association
"
Parents against drugs
"
and author of the book
Salles de shoot: what they refuse to tell you
.
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FIGAROVOX. - Jean Castex has given his agreement for the opening of new “shooting rooms” in the capital. What do you think ?
Serge LEBIGOT. -
It is a serious mistake, once again the government gives in to the ideology of Anne Hidalgo and her friends, the Greens. Drug addicts and dealers will settle around these new shooting rooms due to the so-called security perimeter where the police cannot intervene (in France it is set at 300 meters). As soon as the authorities decide tacitly or expressly that the police should not intervene against infringements of the law on narcotics in or near a shooting theater, the legalization of drug use is a fact. Without such an agreement, no drug use would be possible in a shooting room. In addition, it would be manifestly contradictory for associations to operate such premises at the same time as police surveillance would lead to arrests. In practice,the shooting rooms are spaces where the laws on drugs, in force everywhere else in the company, are null and void. I am surprised that Gérald Darmanin, who fights the consumption of cannabis, authorizes the consumption of crack or other drugs.
I don't believe that giving people what they want will make them want to change.
Serge Lebigot
What is the profile of drug addicts who go there? Is this a promotion and incitement to drug use? Are these rooms not for these drug addicts progress in health matters?
In reality, few drug addicts go to shooting rooms, most of the time they are injectors (heroin, cocaine).
What Anne Hidalgo wants to create are crack rooms.
The result will be catastrophic for those who will live around it.
Considering the condition of a large number of crackers who come under psychiatry, I am not sure that many of them will frequent these shooting rooms.
To read also Paris at 30 km / h: "Anne Hidalgo is engaged in a frenzied and methodical hunt for cars"
It is an incitement to drug use.
The government will contribute to the addiction of drug addicts.
It is a total resignation, in short the government and Anne Hidalgo tell drug addicts "you are incurable, and we will use resources so that you can continue to take drugs, in a more controlled environment".
Instead, society should tell drug addicts "you can change your life, we'll help you do it."
We will offer all voluntary drug addicts treatment and care to free themselves from drugs. "
Many professionals in abstinence-based therapy believe that the comfortable installation of drug addicts in their addiction deprives them of any motivation to undertake withdrawal and rehabilitation treatment.
They say to him in a way: "I give you what you need, but leave me alone!".
I don't believe that society should deliver such a message, as I don't believe that giving people what they want will make them want to change.
The motivation of drug addicts to undergo withdrawal - then rehabilitation treatment - is seriously affected by shooting rooms.
Serge Lebigot
The system is supervised by health personnel. Can this presence not help fight addiction?
Just look at the figures for the Lariboisière shooting room, how many drug addicts have dropped out?
Zero!
Whether in Australia or Canada, it is estimated that less than 1% of drug addicts attending shooting rooms who have quit drugs.
In fact, shooting rooms contribute to weaken therapies focused on abstinence.
The motivation of drug addicts to undergo withdrawal - then rehabilitation treatment - is seriously affected by shooting rooms.
How much does a shoot room cost? Could this amount have been used more efficiently?
The cost of a shooting room varies between 1,000,000 and 1,200,000 €.
With this sum we could create many weaning and care centers (therapeutic communities).
