“I am abstinent and I want to stay like this.” Andy Kerbrat, rebel deputy of the 2nd Loire -atlantique district, will return to the National Assembly on Tuesday, June 24. He resumed his duties after a six -month break, when he was arrested in the drug purchase law in October 2024.
With Ousest-France, the deputy says it is “much better.” “I made a request to an addict that enters a public institution just after the case broke,” he said. He was hospitalized two months from December to February.
“I failed”
“I think we live with an addiction,” Andy Kerbrat told our colleagues. “From the moment we know, it is like a disability, we live with that. I live that I am abstinent, I am very happy. I have established many things, I am accompanied by a psychiatrist and an addictologist, this work will continue for years and it looks great for years,” he continues, explaining that he “puts himself regularly” and has “medical follow -ups.”
“I’m abstinent and I want to stay,” says Andy Kerbrat.
He also explains that the question of putting his mandate at stake was made. “From the beginning, there are people who told me not to let him go. The parents with a child, a loved one who suffers an addiction problem, contacted me and asked me to carry his voice. Obviously, there is the ethical question: what is expected of an elected official? He argues.
He deplores “a vision centered on the repressive angle”
The rebel deputy regrets certain reactions at the time of the revelation of his arrest last October. “The correct hates people who are addicted. She has a problem with this question,” He deplores Oest-France, and adds: “When they see someone on the floor, they take the opportunity to give the last shovel instead of arriving.”
According to him, “there is a taboo in addiction.” “France has a public health problem and politicians do not look at the opposite issue. Because instead of protecting, warning, we prefer to give a cane,” he continues.
Andy Kerbrat supplicates “a new approach” based on “the principle of risk prevention and reduction.” Insumise France is also in favor of “the legalization of soft drugs such as cannabis and medical decriminalization of hard medications, with support to get out of this addiction.”
The deputy of Loire-Atlantique is surprised that during his conviction “he did not have a care mandate.” “In the room where I was, many consumers have been tried, the number of pronounced attention mandates has been almost zero,” he said.
“People have a health and dependence problem, and we respond exclusively with a fine,” deplora Andy Kerbrat, who deplores “a vision focused on the repressive angle.”
“I was in the denial of my addiction”
With our colleagues, the rebel deputy also returns to his personal addiction. “There were phases of abstinence and product taking,” he said. “Sometimes I couldn’t consume anything for four months. And then I was relating. I wasn’t ‘tall’, permanently, fortunately.”
Andy Kerbrat explains that he began consuming drugs since November 2022, “shortly after the death of (his) mother” and “just after (his) choice.” “I could not handle this event, nor the return of trauma due to the violation suffered in my childhood,” he adds.
“There were moments that were extremely difficult to handle, linked to my discomfort, which made me go back,” said the elected official. “The next day, we blame.
Source: BFM TV
