Three people were seriously injured in the traffic accident caused Friday by Pierre Palmade in Seine-et-Marne. The comedian, himself affected, tested positive for cocaine. The artist’s drug addiction was common knowledge. But this addiction is particularly difficult to treat.
It was 6:45 p.m. on Friday when the car driven by comedian Pierre Palmade swerved on a Seine-et-Marne departmental road, for no apparent reason. The accident sent three people to the hospital, seriously injured: a 6-year-old child, his father and his sister-in-law, who also lost the child she was carrying.
The actor himself is injured. On Saturday, the toxicological results rendered their sentence: Pierre Palmade was under the influence of cocaine at the time of the events.
This is the reason why the current investigation was opened for homicide and involuntary injuries by driver under the influence of narcotics. Pierre Palmade’s well-known addiction to drugs goes back many years. It must be said that it is one of the most delicate to treat, as two guests of BFMTV pointed out on Monday.
“No in-between”
“When you’re addicted to cocaine, either you quit or you don’t quit. There is no in-between.” It is the singer Rose who thus decides from the outset. The one who had success with the songs The list et Hi beautiful in 2006 is well placed to be so definitive. He had indeed had to fight a long fight to sweep away his addiction. Today, she alerts and educates her listeners regarding the dangers and difficulties of such a battle in her podcast. Counter-addictions.
The interpreter recalled the successive phases of the truly toxic relationship that unites the consumer to his poison: “It’s in three episodes. First, we try, we consume. Afterwards, there is abuse and then addiction. .”
Noting that one can dive into drugs “for 1000 reasons”, Rose wanted to dispel an illusion: “The will is not the problem”. “Addiction has its reasons that the will ignores,” she hammered.
Useless, therefore, to serine to a dependent person that it is enough for him to want to stop to get away with it. The artist has, on the contrary, noticed that it is very often when the subject has the feeling of being cornered, of no longer having a choice, that he takes the plunge: “Either we stop when we are regarding to die, or when the police arrest us, when we are up once morest the wall”.
Abstinence as the only horizon
And at the time of breaking with its destructive habits, it is advisable not to compromise. “There is only one solution to stop this disease which is fatal, and which we have for life, it is abstinence”, insisted Rose once more.
However, it is not a question of giving up at the first misstep. “Relapses are often part of recovery, they are stages. We never go back to the start. Ok, we go back a little bit, but we continue to move forward and we keep what we have won”, thus assured the singer.
How to explain such an obstacle course? The testimony delivered on BFMTV by Amine Benyamina, psychiatrist, addictologist and president of the French Federation of Addictology, 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 to say that we cannot cure in the sense that we understand it – you get bronchitis you recover from it – but we help the person to to get out of it, to wean off.”
A “link disease”
The helper must therefore above all seek to guide the consumer towards awareness. Necessity which translates concretely into the practice of the psychiatrist by a battery of questions to his patient wishing to get rid of his addiction.
“Where do you live? Who do you live with? Where do you buy it? ?”, Listed Amine Benyamina, justifying: “We bring them to make a decisional balance to be able to increase their desire to go out”.
“We can’t stop alone”, confirms Rose, who points to a trick of addiction: “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 drop out. But not everyone has the opportunity to draw their strength from close contact. Well aware of this obstacle, Rose calls on addicts to turn to other circles: “Support groups are extremely powerful because you find a concrete link with people.”
The bondage to cocaine, to drugs in general, to alcohol, is indeed a “disease of the link” according to the definition given by the host of the podcast. Counter-addictions. She then finished: “And you have to feed your life with real things to remove this crutch.”
