toxicomanie
By Céline LE PRIOUX Berlin (AFP) - Après Malte en 2021 et le Luxembourg l'an dernier, l'Allemagne devient lundi le plus grand pays de l'UE à légaliser l'usage récréatif du cannabis, avec une réforme qui suscite autant d'attentes que de craintes. A minuit, l'heure des premiers joints "légaux", plusieurs centaines de personnes ont célébré le changement de loi dans des volutes de fumée devant l'emblématique porte de Brandebourg, au cœur de Berlin, a constaté une journaliste de l’AFP. Au milieu d'une foule jeune et joyeuse, Niyazi, un jeune homme de 25 ans, dit voir dans la dépénalisation "un peu ...
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Washington (AFP) - The three largest drug distributors in the United States have won a major court victory, with a judge ruling that they were not responsible for record opioid addiction in one part of West Virginia state. About 10 percent of Cabell County's population is or has been addicted to opioids -- at a huge economic and social cost, acknowledged Judge David Faber. But "while there is a natural tendency to assign blame in such cases, they must be decided not based on sympathy, but on the facts and the law," he wrote in a decision released Monday night. The "plaintiffs failed to show th...
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New York (AFP) - "This site saves lives," reads an inscription on the wall of America's first drug injection center in New York, which aims to serve as a model in a country blighted by record overdoses. In the room, there are eight open cubicles all equipped with a chair, a table and a mirror, the latter to quickly see "if anything goes wrong," says 29-year-old Mark, a regular visitor. "You're monitored the whole time," explains the Californian, who asked to be identified by an alias. "There's music playing. It's a very non-rushed environment unlike when you're using a public bathroom and peop...
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Washington (AFP) - The Cherokee Nation said Tuesday that pharmaceutical distributors have agreed to pay it $75 million to end lawsuits stemming from the opioid crisis in America. The out of court settlement with AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson is the first of its kind involving a Native American community in the United States. "Today's settlement will make an important contribution to addressing the opioid crisis in the Cherokee Nation Reservation; a crisis that has disproportionately and negatively affected many of our citizens," Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin sa...
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New York (AFP) - The three largest US drug distributors have agreed to pay up to $1.18 billion to the state of New York over their role in the opioid crisis, the state's top prosecutor announced Tuesday. The settlement by McKesson, Cardinal Health and Amerisource Bergen comes as another, larger settlement between the three distributors plus pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson and numerous US states and local governments is reportedly close to being reached, according to US media. That settlement, in the works since October 2019, could be as high as $26 billion, according to anonymous sourc...
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Houtzdale (United States) (AFP) - Beverly Veres' two sons are addicted to heroin but can't get the help they need, with US health services consumed by the coronavirus pandemic at a time when overdoses are surging. "Drugs have just come into this area, and are taking over," says Veres at her Pennsylvania home. "(But) they're not focusing on anything else but Covid," she adds of the authorities. Veres, her husband Steve, and their sons Douglas, 24, and Charles, 29, live in a small house in Houtzdale, a town in rural Clearfield County far from the cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Coronaviru...
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