around 8-10 times more potent than morphine
Posted on 10/13/2013 5:56:35 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Horrific impact of deadly 'cannibal heroin' that 'eats' addicts alive: Drug that originated in Russia is now on the streets of the U.S.
It is feared a deadly drug known as 'cannibal heroin' which eats flesh from the inside out is about to take off in the United States.
Krokodil, which is similar to heroin and originated in Russia 10 years ago, turns users into zombies as their bodies begin to rot leaving addicts with reptilian skin.
Following reports over the past month of cases of krokodil abuse in both Arizona and Chicago, Illinois, the drug is now believed to have hit New York.
The homemade concoction can be up to 10 times cheaper than heroin and is created by mixing codeine with gasoline or oil.
The drug is made of readily available ingredients such as codeine, iodine and toxins such as gasoline, industrial cleaning oil, lighter fluid and paint thinner. Users filter and boil ingredients together, then inject the drug.
The results are catastrophic.
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Leave it to the Russians to come up with a devastatingly EFFECTIVE response to drug abuse.
They are, the “honey badgers” of humanity.
Scary stuff
Very short serum half-life
Major addictive
Often injected unpurified
Here’s the wikipedia article on the stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine
It looks like to be the meth of the opiate world. In that it’s something that can be cooked up in small labs, and involves a slew of dangerous chemicals that are as potentially deadly (or even more so) than the primary drug itself.
Nasty stuff.
And a pinch of Sterno.
I’m just wondering about the flesh-rotting stuff. Will JHP still work on these guys?
THE NEW CRYSTAL METH: CHEAP ALTERNATIVE TO HEROIN GRIPS RUSSIA
Krokodil’s medical name is desomorphine and it is created by mixing codeine with gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous.
There are millions of users in Russia and the epidemic began in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
The drug causes flesh to rot from the inside out and the addict’s skin becomes scaly, like a crocodile’s, hence the name.
Blood vessels burst and the surrounding tissue dies. Gangrene and amputations are a common result and sometimes bone can be exposed.
The high lasts for about an hour-and-a-half and the drug can be up to 10 times cheaper than heroin.
around 8-10 times more potent than morphine
Watch the video on the linky if you can. Gruesome. I’ve never seen anything like this.
God help us and I mean that.
Sounds like a whole lot of fun, can't wait til my local supermarket carries it.
Mass manufacture the stuff and give it away for free
Maybe someone here on FR can enlighten me, but I was the under the impression that codeine is a Schedule II narcotic; where are the getting the codeine from in order to make this?
Sure, here in the Czech Republic, I can get codeine over-the-counter no problem; I can go to any drugstore and buy it no questions asked. But in the US I didn’t think that was possible.
And suddenly, the concept of a zombie apocalypse is entirely plausible.
Holy crap this world is screwed.
“rokodil’s medical name is desomorphine and it is created by mixing codeine with gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous.
Gasoline and PAINT THINNER ?
I cant think of a more explosive bunch of stuff to “cook” on stove...
Call me callous (I am), but I have zero sympathy for anyone dumb enough to inject themselves with poison. I know that as a young man I never would have done anything so stupid.
Think of it as a form of Darwinism that is acting as a cleansing tool to rid society of these unthinking beings, hopefully before they reproduce.
— I was the under the impression that codeine is a Schedule II narcotic
Nope - Schedule iV
In some countries, unscheduled
Then I stand corrected. Thanks for letting me know.
There’s been a few cases here in the Czech Republic of this Krokodil, and a few in Poland as well. I’m not sure about Ukraine, and getting any legit info out of Belarus is laughable at best.
It’s a MAJOR problem in Russia. Krokodil is the ultimate nightmare drug that would’ve been dismissed as implausible not that long ago.
How can this drug be a problem? It is cleaning up the vermin from the streets.
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