On the March 9 TPMP show, an ex-drug dealer talked about adrenochrome as a drug taken by some celebrities and allegedly made from the blood of children. Info or intox ?
“Adrenochrome is children’s blood, which we take from three-year-old children” threw Gerard Faure, ex-cocaine trafficker, in the show TPMP broadcast on the evening of Thursday March 9, causing a social media outcry. The man went on to say that celebrities like Pierre Palmade or Celine Dion would take adenochrome as a drug. On Twitterthe account of the program presented by Cyril Hanouna as well as that of the C8 chain posted a message for condemn the comments made by their guest. But the controversy was launched just like the new buzz…
What is adrenochrome?
“It’s about a old molecule, from the 1940s-1950s, oxidative derivative of adrenaline which caused a lot of misinformation“ answers Dr. Hervé Martini, an addictologist, whom we contacted on Friday March 10. “Adrenochrome is a organic compound (formula C9 H9 NO3), which corresponds only to result of the natural oxidation of adrenaline (or C9 H13 NO3)” he continues. Adrenaline being a hormone produced naturally by the human body in various situations such as stress orphysical effort.
“It’s absolutely not a drug. It’s a myth”
Is adrenochrome a drug?
“It’s definitely not a drug. not even a medicine, continues the addictologist. In France, this molecule has no MA, ie no marketing authorization. Adrenochrome has no psychoactive effects and is not encountered in our clinical practice. It’s a myth which has been regularly highlighted since the 1960s (especially in the American conspiratorial circles, editor’s note), popularized in a book by Hunter Stockton Thompson”Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” which was made into a movie.” THE movie in question was released in 1998 under the name of “Las Vegas Paranoid” with in the main roles, the actors Johnny Depp And Benicio Del Toro. In a scene from the movie, Johnny Depp takes a drug called “adrenochrome”, a drug bought from a dealer with satanist delusions, attacking children… As underlined by theAFPin the comments of the DVD version of “Las Vegas Parano”, director Terry Gilliam explained that the scenes relating to the use of adrenochrome were completely made up.
Thanks to Dr. Hervé Martini, addiction doctor.