A number of deaths by overdose in overall increase since the years 2000. Seizures of cocaine - basic material of the crack - or heroin in continuous rise for several years, and a consumption to match.
Has France given up on hard drugs?
As early as 1992, France chose a path of support and " supervised
" consumption
, in particular by providing injection equipment, then by experimenting with a first shooting room in 2016, before multiplying them in the future, such as the recommends the latest social security financing law, passed last December.
This tendency to reduce the "
risks
replaces the desire to eradicate addictions, which raises questions at a time of proliferation of open scenes of crack consumption, in Paris and in the provinces.
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