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Crack: Bordeaux, Rennes, Compiègne… The "poor man's drug" is wreaking havoc throughout France

2022-10-05T17:32:31.866Z


SURVEY - Crack is no longer the prerogative of Parisians. In the provinces and in the countryside, other candidates are knocking at the gates of this drug's hell.


The alert was given several years ago, but the concern is going up a notch.

Crack, nicknamed the “poor man's drug”, is no longer an exclusively Parisian scourge.

This devastating substance, which causes a lightning dependence from the first doses, has indeed spread throughout the territory.

Gradually and discreetly, this product, made from cocaine cut with ammonia or baking soda, has infiltrated large cities, but also smaller towns.

How can we imagine that Compiègne would be a place where crack was sold?

But Rennes, Niort, Mâcon, or even Orléans are also affected, according to the judicial police services responsible for combating this traffic.

Campaigns are not spared

In the midst of dog punks, marginalized people and other vulnerable populations living on the streets, this drug that is smoked and which flows in different forms - cakes, crystals, pebbles - thus circulates in the hearts of these cities with its same effects...

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Source: lefigaro

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