Titre : | Assessment of 19 years of a prospective national survey on drug-facilitated crimes in France (2023) |
Auteurs : | S. DJEZZAR ; J. M. GAULIER ; C. GORGIARD ; M. CHESE ; J. C. ALVAREZ ; C. MARTIN ; V. DUMESTRE-TOULET ; M. LAVIT ; O. MATHIEU ; H. EYSSERIC ; E. BERLAND ; C. ROUSSEL ; Y. GAILLARD ; A. S. HURTEL-LEMAIRE ; M. DEVEAUX ; C. PION |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Legal Medicine (Vol.65, November 2023) |
Article en page(s) : | art. 102297 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique FRANCEThésaurus mots-clés ETUDE PROSPECTIVE ; CRIMINALITE ; CRIME ; ABUS SEXUEL ; ALCOOL ; BENZODIAZEPINES ; GHB ; SOUMISSION CHIMIQUE ; VICTIME ; TOXICOLOGIE ; PRODUIT ILLICITE ; DEPISTAGE ; EVOLUTION ; FACTEUR DE VULNERABILITE ; MEDECINE LEGALE |
Résumé : | Drug facilitated-crime or chemical submission (DFC/CS) is defined as the concealed or forced administration of psychoactive substances to a victim for criminal purposes. This is a national program set up in the early 2000s in the form of a prospective multicenter survey, the results of which this manuscript presents. Over this 19-year period, 5487 cases were collected, analyzed and classified into 54% of suspected cases, 29% of chemical vulnerability (CV) cases and 17% of proven DFC/CS cases. In the overall data, the most prevalent victims were female (81%), with an average age of 27 years. Sexual assault was the most frequent aggression (77%), followed by theft (14%). Victims of proven DFC/CS cases were from of all ages including children and elderly. In 934 victims of DFC/CS, 100 various psychoactive substances were detected mostly represented by benzodiazepines and z-drugs (55%), various sedatives including antihistamines (16%) and non-therapeutic substances (16%). Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) was found in 4% cases. In CV cases, alcohol (90%) and cannabis (32%) intake were mainly involved. In France, despite prevention messages, DFC/CS has been an epidemic for many years and has been proven by our national study. This national program has the aim to identifying the substances used but unfortunately not the goal to fight against this phenomenon. Since 2009, we observed a new modus operandi of the aggressors who pose as taxi drivers facilitating the reception of the victims leaving nightclubs. We can emphasize that GHB is not the "date rape drug" but rather the benzodiazepine class is. |
Domaine : | Alcool / Alcohol ; Autres substances / Other substances ; Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 42 |
Affiliation : |
Addictovigilance Center, hôpital Fernand Widal, AP-HP-Nord-Université de Paris, Paris, France Division of Toxicology, CHU Lille, France Forensic emergencies, hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, AP-HP. Centre - Université de Paris, France ToxLab Laboratory, Paris, France Pharmacology-Toxicology Laboratory, hôpital Raymond Poincaré, AP-HP. Université Paris Saclay, France Toxicology Section, National Institute of Forensic Science, INPS-LPS75, Paris, France ToxGen Laboratory, Bordeaux, France Pharmacokinetics and Toxicology Laboratory, CHU, Toulouse, France Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, CHU Montpellier, France Pharmacology and Toxicology Laboratory, CHU Grenoble, France Toxicology Section, National Institute of Forensic Science, INPS-LPS13, Marseille, France Lat Lumtox Laboratory, La Voulte, France Pharmacoloy-Toxicolgy Laboratory, CHU Amiens, France Addictovigilance Department, Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM), Saint-Denis, France |
Lien : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2023.102297 |
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