It was 6:45 p.m. on Friday when the car driven by comedian Pierre Palmade swerved off a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne for no apparent reason. The accident sent three people to the hospital, seriously injured: a 6-year-old boy, his father and their respective aunt and sister-in-law who also lost the child they were carrying. The actor himself is seriously injured. On Saturday, the toxicological results passed judgment: Pierre Palmade was under the influence of cocaine at the time of the events.
That is why this investigation was opened for homicide and involuntary injuries in a driver under the influence of narcotics. Pierre Palmade’s well-known drug addiction dates back many years. It must be said that he is one of the most delicate to deal with, as two BFMTV guests pointed out on Monday.
“No Intermissions”
“When you’re addicted to cocaine, either you quit or you don’t quit. There’s no middle ground.” It is the singer Rose who decides like this from the beginning. The one who was successful with the songs The list AND Hello Beautiful in 2006 it is well placed to be so definitive. In fact, he had to lead a long fight to break his addiction to gunpowder. Today, he alerts and educates his listeners to the dangers and difficulties of such a battle on his podcast. counter-addictions.
The interpreter recalled the successive phases of the truly toxic relationship that unites the consumer with his poison: “It is in three episodes. First we try, we consume. Then there is abuse and then addiction.”
Pointing out that one can get into drugs “for 1,000 reasons,” Rose wanted to dispel an illusion: “The will is not the problem.” “Addiction has its reasons that the will ignores,” she hammered herself.
Useless, therefore, to tell a dependent person that it is enough for him to want to stop to get away with it. The artist, on the contrary, has noticed that it is very frequent that when the subject has the feeling of being cornered, of having no other choice, they jump into the water: “Either we stop when we are about to die, or when the police arrests us, when we are up against the wall”.
Abstinence as the only horizon
And when it comes to breaking their destructive habits, it is advisable not to compromise. “There is only one solution to stop this disease that is fatal, and that we have for life, is abstinence,” Rosa insisted again.
However, it is not about giving up at the first false step. “Les rechutes font partie du rétablissement souvent, ce sont des étapes. singer.
How to explain such an obstacle course? Testimony delivered on BFMTV by Amine Benyamina, psychiatrist, toxicologist and president of the French Federation of Toxicology, sheds light on this point. “There is no cure for drugs”, thus introduced the specialist, before highlighting the “long work” to be done:
“There is what is called risk reduction, that is, we cannot cure in the sense that we understand it – you get bronchitis, you recover – but we help the person to get out, to wean.”
A “link disease”
Therefore, the helper must first of all try to guide the consumer towards awareness. A need that is concretely translated into the psychiatrist’s practice by means of a battery of questions to his patient who wants to get out of his addiction.
“Where do you live? Who do you live with? Where do you buy it?” Amine Benyamina listed, justifying: “We take them to make a decisional balance in order to increase their desire to go out.”
“We can’t stop on our own,” confirms Rose, who points to an addiction trap: “From the moment we say, ‘I’m going to control,’ it’s because we can’t control.”
It was the artist’s “unconditional love” for her son that pushed her, she says, to give up. But not everyone has the opportunity to draw their strength from close contact. Aware of this obstacle, Rose calls on addicts to turn to other circles: “Support groups are extremely powerful because you find a concrete bond with people.”
The attachment to cocaine, to drugs in general, to alcohol, is in fact a “disease of bonding” according to the definition given by the host of the podcast. counter-addictions. Then he finished: “And you have to feed your life with real things to take this crutch off.”
Source: BFM TV
