the damage caused by the designer drug 3-MMC

It circulated all summer in parties, bars or private homes. Sold from 10 to 30 euros per gram against 60 to 80 for cocaine, 3-MMC is the drug of the moment. Julien consumes it regularly, attracted by its price, he uses it to intensify his sexual relations during weekends that insiders call “Chemsex”, a sexual marathon under chemical influence. “We settle in a bubble that will allow us to disinhibit ourselves. We enter a tunnel and during this time nothing exists, all our problems, all our difficulties, all our pains disappear”testifies this quarantine.

A synthetic drug illegal in France, but which remains easy to access. It is produced in large quantities in laboratories, mainly in Asia, and is sold on the Internet and delivered to homes by discreet parcels. “The risks of a drug like 3-MMC are cardiovascular and neurological risks. And besides that, psychiatric disorders”, denounces Professor Amine Benyamania, head of the addiction service at the Paul-Brousse hospital (APHP). Since 2008, about twenty deaths have occurreds in France because of this substance.