Should there be consumption rooms for heavy drug addicts?
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A consumer of crack, in the gardens of Éole, in Paris.
© AFP / Geoffroy Van der Hasselt
By: Frédérique Lebel
1 min
The authorities seem unable to resolve the problem.
That of violence and the wandering of heavy drug addicts, most often crack cocaine.
The exasperation of city dwellers is equal to the inability of medicine to treat and get drug addicts off the hook.
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The idea of shooting rooms, to channel shots with less risk, appeared in the 1980s. It was at this time that they were born, in Germany, to limit the epidemic of AIDS and disease. hepatitis C. Authorized at the federal level, there are today around thirty of them in the country. They must welcome crack smokers and constantly negotiate with neighborhood residents about the risks posed by their presence.
Deborah Berlioz visited one of these structures in the
Neuköln district of
Berlin.
And in Paris, the situation is far from appeased.
For years, crackers, smokers of cut cocaine, have gathered in the northeastern neighborhoods of the capital.
The taking of drugs on the sidewalks or in the parks, near families, the distress, the extreme precariousness and the violence were finally only moved from neighborhood to neighborhood, by powerless police forces.
In September 2021, the government announced its crack plan, with the opening of consumption rooms ... which are not unanimous ... to say the least.
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