Computer in shoulder strap, a couple of thirties arrives in the analysis permanence “Before”, organized every Thursday in Paris, to know what their products contain: white heroin and brunette. In a relaxed atmosphere, music and cupcakes, the specialized educator Arthur Morel receives them.
“Some users already have the stress of coming with a drug, to be arrested, so we try to make them comfortable”, explains Grégory Pfau, pharmacist specializing in psychoactive substances and co -founder of the Analysis Ton Prod 'network (ATP).
This permanence of analysis is held in the reception and support center for risk reduction for drug users (CAARUD), installed in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
Authorized since 2016, drug analysis is aimed at all major consumers wishing to learn about their products “To be able to make informed choices on their consumption”.
“I don't have the right to touch the product, you are going to do it”, Announcement Arthur Morel. The couple crushes the heroine powder in a mortar. Twenty milligrams are enough to detect the various psychoactive substances present and their concentration. The couple thinks that their heroine is 70%pure.
“All you have to do is turn the bike”, Had a regular from “Before” around a corridor.
A double mission of prevention and health monitoring
In the laboratory of a few square meters, Maxime Triguel, toxicologist, explains the operation of the high -performance liquid phase chromatograph (HPLC). The machine, one meter high, allows the different molecules to be separated in just 12 minutes.
The computer displays a curve of six peaks, corresponding to a medicine from the benzodiazepines family, a depressant, such as heroin. “The cocktail of several depressant products presents a fatal risk of slowing down the nervous system”warns Maxime Triguel. The sample will therefore be sent to the French observatory of drugs and addictive trends (OFDT) and the couple will be notified of the results by SMS.
Created in 2021, the Association Analysis Ton Prod is a partner of the national identification system for toxic and substances of OFDT. “We watch together on the circulation of new and atypical products”, specifies Grégory Pfau.
“I really want to know: did I drink my body? ”
“Mimi” has his products analyzed for the first time at “Before”. The 27 -year -old engineer says he consume “Every weekend”in the evening or in rave-share.
This shyer evokes doubts about MDMA “A little strong, maybe a little cut”of the “Heart fatigue”, Difficult sleep.
-“I should have come before”, recognizes this suburban resident who lives far from the laboratory. “” “I really want to know: did I drink my body? ”
“Cocaine, MDMA and Ketamine are increasingly concentrated”, notes Grégory Pfau. As evidenced by the ketamine sample of a 29 -year -old user analyzed a few minutes ago: concentrated at 92%.
“Users often come after feeling negative effects. They think it's cut with other things, but, in fact it is dosed at more than 80%”continues the pharmacist.
“An error of 30 milligrams on an almost pure product can lead to very different effects”
“I often offer them to weigh everything they have about them. Many are surprised in front of the scale. They realize that they were going to consume more than they had planned, because a pouch of 100 milligrams can weigh 70 or 140 in reality. ”
About 92%étatamine, “An error of 30 milligrams on an almost pure product can lead to very different effects”, he warned.
Voluntary analyzes of products by consumers are more and more numerous in France: 4,400 in 2024, against 2,126 in 2022, according to figures provided by ATP.
As for overseas, a first laboratory should open it soon. Quentin Gorrias and Armelle Crosse, from the Oté Réseau -network prevention association!, Are precisely in Paris to train.
“People worry” And are asking for a system for analyzing their products, because new synthetic drugs circulate in the island celebrations where the association is already prevention, explains Quentin Gorrias.
“Unfortunately, there must be accidents so that the public authorities are mobilizing”, he regrets.
On January 17, in particular, an alert was issued after an overdose to the heroine containing a synthetic opioid in the Yvelines.
