2024-09-27 04:00:19
“Chemical surrender”: the expression has established itself in public debate, thanks to Mazan’s forced experiment. With another: “medical tourism”. Because during the ten years of the ordeal of Gisèle Pelicot, who raped her husband and dozens of men after being drugged with anxiolytics, clinical signs and symptoms were identified – memory loss, “absences”, the gynecological problem … Without “complexity” that leads to the identification of sexual assaults of which the victim is able to share together.
Beyond the importance of the facts, and the emotion they provoke, the case questions the role of doctors, a special guardian in the face of this kind of violence. But “How to think what can not be thought? » : the question is asked, in these terms, by general practitioners, family doctors who are close to their patients, who do not keep their frequent ignorance of this kind of violence.
“Of course we are concerned about this issue, but the task of tracking that is assigned to us is not easy, Report Emeline Pasdeloup, co-responsible, within the College of General Medicine, who worked together on the issue a year ago. We are at the border of two sensitive subjects to be addressed in consultation, of sexual health and of violence. » Even more complicated, adds a young general practitioner working in Loiret, “When the patient is not there for that, or when his husband is” – a common situation.
Total or partial amnesia
Add to the lack of training of professionals in the complexity of the event: chemical introduction, definition by the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) as“Control for criminal purposes (rape, acts of pedophilia) or violence (intentional violence, theft) of violent substances without the knowledge of the victim, or under threat.”specifically throwing many victims into total or partial amnesia.
How many are there? Math is very difficult. During the year 2022, according to data from the national addicttovigilance networkcollected by forensic medicine services, toxicology centers, emergency services, police, etc. 1,229 “Hardware Attacks” is retained in ANSM. Among them, 97 refer to cases of chemical depositions “work out”346 to the so-called incidents of chemical “injury” (caused by force “voluntary” of substances) and 786 to submissions “possible”. The Addiktovigilance Center of Paris, which has been conducting this annual national survey for twenty years, spoke of the increase “explanation”to be connected to freedom of speech on social networks.
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