Alerts are more and more recurring.
The "chemsex" tends to democratize.
The principle: combine consumption of psychotropic products - especially synthetic drugs - and sexual intercourse.
But while prejudices hitherto suggested that this practice was especially widespread within the gay community, a study made public this Wednesday, during a conference organized at the town hall of Paris, reveals that it does not is no longer limited to this part of the population.
"The pandemic has made the situation worse"
At the same time, the City of Paris conducted its own survey of "stakeholders in the field - addictologists, grassroots associations, etc. - to find out what needs to be done in the face of this phenomenon", explains Anne Souyris. .
The assistant in charge of health emphasizes having been questioned on the issue in 2019. “We had a wealth of information at the time, from health professionals but also from the police, alerting us to deaths. related to chemsex.
We had therefore started to organize the first meetings, but the Covid interrupted our work.
Except that the pandemic made the situation worse.
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Better train professionals
From December, a strategic committee will therefore be launched, before the establishment of working groups for the deployment from 2022 of an information and risk reduction plan for chemsex. It will aim to better coordinate the actions of addiction centers, sexual health centers, associations, hospitals and the police. “The objective is to achieve a certain number of actions very quickly,” resumes Anne Souyris. The staff are not sufficiently trained. Doctors know nothing about it, the police, firefighters and social services do not always know how to intervene. It may also be necessary to allow safe access to syringes, since many products are injected, leading to the risk of spreading disease. Finally, we must better inform the population, with the distribution of flyers.The lines of work already exist. "
