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The "Amazonization" of cocaine, an urban and rural scourge

2021-12-26T19:02:54.634Z


DECRYPTION - Telephone platform, customer files, use of the darknet have now integrated the “business model” of drug networks.


"Even the 40-year-old stay-at-home mom is doing it!"

, notes Professor Laurent Karila, referring to the evolution of cocaine consumption in France.

"After dropping the child off at school, she takes her drugs, her glass

of champagne

and does her paintings,"

he continues.

The description is not exaggerated.

For a good ten years now, cocaine has no longer been confined to glitter evenings or in the middle of creation.

It has spread throughout society.

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The psychiatry and addictology department headed by this specialist at the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif bears witness to this reality.

“I get all possible profiles

,” he says.

The liberal nurse, the business manager, the bar owner, the butcher's manager or the saleswoman, push open the door of his consulting room.

“Consumption has become totally trivialized,” he

notes.

"There is uberization with home delivery"

The massive arrival of this drug in Europe and the drop in the price that followed explain this surge that is infiltrating ...

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Source: lefigaro

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