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For a fortnight, the so-called Palmade affair has been everywhere: on the screens, in the newspapers, as during our conversations at the coffee machine.
But beyond the personal case of the comedian, she asks many questions about the state of our society, and in particular that of the trivialization of hard drugs.
In our columns, the sociologist Hugues Lagrange, author of
Diseases of Happiness,
advances worrying figures: between 2000 and 2023 the number of adults who have experimented with cocaine has more than doubled, and stands at 6% today.
"Formerly a drug for those who wanted to eat the world, cocaine is now also a bandage: there are twice as many users among the unemployed as among the active
," he explains.
Of course, the relative fall in prices and the abundance of supply, which arrives in quantity in the ports of Le Havre, Antwerp or Rotterdam have a lot to do with it.
But the rise in cocaine use in France as our place firmly…
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