Question 11068 — health

Summary

Mr. Pouria Amirshahi draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the worrying issue of the increase in deaths linked to the practice of chemsex, an action combining the consumption of psychoactive substances and sexual intercourse, which is experiencing exponential growth within the LGBTQIA+ community but also among young people in general. Associations committed to preventing these practices, such as Inter-LGBT and PlaySafe, have been warning for several years about the dramatic health consequences of chemsex. According to the data they were able to collect, this practice causes on average one death per week in Paris, with a peak of eight deaths recorded during Pride weekend. Furthermore, nearly 90% of intubations in intensive care linked to an overdose concern cases of chemsex and the first organ donors would be those whose death is linked to the consumption of GBL (gamma-butyrolactone), a substance frequently used in this context. Despite these alerts, the associations face a glaring lack of official data, the Ministry of the Interior having not communicated the requested figures on deaths or overdoses linked to this practice. This opacity maintains a taboo around overdose deaths, often wrongly classified as “cardiac arrests”. It prevents also any rigorous statistical monitoring, which makes it difficult to implement an effective public prevention policy. The MP also wishes to draw the Government's attention to the involvement of the digital sector in this phenomenon. Chemsex practices are organized and massively distributed via dating applications and social networks (Grindr for example). However, the moderation of these platforms is largely insufficient and their responsibility is not regulated. Likewise, sites selling synthetic drugs are fully accessible via the French digital space and even carry out targeted marketing campaigns. It therefore appears necessary to strengthen cooperation with major platforms (Google, Apple) to limit the visibility of content promoting or facilitating chemsex in search systems and, where appropriate, If necessary, delete certain sites from the French digital space. The legislator must address this issue in order to set clear objectives in terms of prevention and regulation of online content and impose mandatory prevention messages on the sites and applications concerned. Consequently, he asks him to make public the official data relating to deaths and overdoses linked to chemsex, to specify the actions envisaged to improve the moderation and regulation of digital platforms facilitating this practice and to detail the measures that the Government intends to implement to support prevention associations and strengthen the fight against this health and social scourge.

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