Popular practices in young people, but far from being safe. The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) warns in front of the cannabis vapeo or synthetic cannabinoid .
“In the context of a persistent promotion of dangerous practices through social networks, we alert consumers and ask for surveillance: the vapeo of psychoactive substances and, in particular, synthetic cannabinoids, presents health risks,” says the health agency .
The latter claims to have received “new reports of serious adverse effects after the consumption of psychoactive vopeo substances.”
Among which, the drug agency lists psychiatric disorders such as hallucinations, suicidal ideas or panic attacks, digestive disorders, such as nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, cardiovascular problems such as tachycardia or chest pain, but still renal problems, Severe addiction to the abstraction of abstraction, discomfort, amnesia, knowledge losses and seizures.
“Very concentrated products”
“The mode of vapeo consumption does not reduce the risks related to the use of these illicit products. On the contrary, they can increase them, the action of the products is faster,” warns the medication agency.
These practices are particularly popular among adolescents. “We see the persistent promotion in the social networks of dangerous practices and we would like to ask for all the audiences, but particularly the youngest,” he explains to the France-Presse (AFP) agency (AFP) AGNès Laforest-Bruneaux, Deputy Director of ANSM Surveillance Department.
Adolescents inhale e-liquids, “obtained on the Internet, on the street or in high school, comrades” such as PTC (“Fart Your Skull”), or Buddha Blue, “very concentrated products”, she.
Substances with “higher” effects on cannabis
“These vapoted substances, cannabinoids, are narcotics: they are prohibited and have serious health risks, while this mode of consumption can be perceived as less risky,” said Agnès Laforest-Bruneaux.
The PTC can contain “several synthetic cannabinoids, substances that mimic the cannabis effect, but whose power may be superior,” says the ANSM, whose monitoring, began in 2019, enriched with the information drug data service and the informed cases and the cases informed to the anti -anti -anti -anti -the centers of venomo -burt in France in 215 cases (including a death) in 2021-2022 and 139 in 2023-2024.
“It is not exhaustive, but makes it possible to give a trend, identify new substances that appear,” said the ANSM official.
An “addiction” in “strong progression”
“At the end of 2024, we reached very close reports, the serious adverse effects on high school students, who required quite long and 2023-2024 hospitalizations, half of the declared cases that declared us are serious cases, which refers In the middle of the minors, the minors, “she explains.
Even more worrying, “in the medium and long term”, for “chronic users”, there is an “addiction and an important dependence, in a strong progression, with lack symptoms, especially among younger consumers”, specifies Agnès Laforest-Bruneaux .
The ANSM invites users of electronic cigarettes to surveillance when they obtain electronic fluids that probably contain synthetic cannabinoids with variable compositions and doses. It also urges not to make mixtures of “house” of products that “increase the risks of poisoning that can lead to hospitalizations.”
In case of poisoning linked to vapeo, manifesting itself by “nausea and vomiting, discomfort, amnesia, seizure, loss of knowledge, delusional episode” or “suicidal hallucinations or ideas”, the agency calls to contact Samu (15), firefighters, Firefighters (18) or emergency services.
Consultations dedicated to young people
Remember that, in case of dependence on vapeo products, excluding nicotine, the offer of “young consumption consultations” in children under 25, a free and confidential service for reception, listening and advice.
The drug-info-service site provides information to find adequate care, by a doctor or a specialized structure.
Aimed at emergency artists, the ANSM recalls that the detection of synthetic cannabinoids “is complex and requires specific analyzes performed by specialized laboratories.”
Source: BFM TV
