This week, Stéphanie Benz, deputy editor-in-chief of the Sciences and Health department of L’Express, explains to you what oxycodone is, the growing use of which in a large quarter of southwestern France worries specialists.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Ambre Rosala (editing), Jules Krot (directing), Marion Galard (work-study) and Xavier Yvon (editor-in-chief)
Credits: BFM, CBC, France Info, Recovery Centers of America, RMC
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Anne-Laure Chapelain and L’Express
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Charlotte Barris: Oxycodone… I welcome a journalist who is used to using sometimes barbaric names for her investigations, Stéphanie Benz, deputy editor-in-chief of the Science department of L’Express and specialist in health issues. Hi Stephanie!
Stephanie Benz : Hi Charlotte!
Charlotte Baris : Stephanie, in what context could I hear this term “oxycodone”?
Stephanie Benz : As you are not a pharmaceutical chemist, if you hear this word, it is unfortunately that you are hospitalized. It is an opioid painkiller. It is prescribed as a painkiller after an accident or post-operatively.
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