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TEEN SOUL POWER
Warning:
DESOMORPHINE aka KROKODIL
The Zombie Drug that “Eats” Junkies
Doctors in both Arizona and Chicago hospitals report
Desomorphine was previously used in Switzerland and Russia for the treatment of severe pain; although it was terminated in 1981. It began to clandestinely be manufactured in Russia as a recreational drug, and quickly spread through Europe. Eventually it began showing up in America when doctors in both Arizona and Chicago hospitals reported that they were treating people who used a "caustic, homemade heroin-like drug called krokodil" that can rot flesh and bone.
The drug, which became popular in Russia about 10 years earlier as a cheap replacement for heroin had now spread into Europe, and is now spreading through the US. It costs about three times less than heroin and produces a similar, but much shorter, high.
But there are very significant - and deadly, differences. Krokodil is made from over-the-counter codeine-based headache pills, mixed with gasoline, paint thinner, cleaning fluid, alcohol, iodine, red phosphorus and hydrochloric acid. It is a derivative of morphine, and has sedative and analgesic effects, but is highly impure and contaminated with various toxic and corrosive by-products.
Krokodil has a similar effect to heroin, but it is far more addictive and deadly.
Krokodil users tend to only live only two or three years.
When the drug is injected into the skin, it often causes gangrene, forcing the skin to rot away leading to amputation of limbs. The side effects are critical and it is also a neurotoxin that causes brain damage, and causes speech problems and erratic muscle movements. It almost immediately starts to destroy blood cells and blood vessels, literally causes gangrene from the inside of the body coming out.
While heroin detoxification lasts a week to ten days, withdrawal from desomorphine can take an agonizing MONTH!
Desomorphine was previously used in Switzerland and Russia for the treatment of severe pain; although it was terminated in 1981. It began to clandestinely be manufactured in Russia as a recreational drug, and quickly spread through Europe. Eventually it began showing up in America when doctors in both Arizona and Chicago hospitals reported that they were treating people who used a "caustic, homemade heroin-like drug called krokodil" that can rot flesh and bone.
The drug, which became popular in Russia about 10 years earlier as a cheap replacement for heroin had now spread into Europe, and is now spreading through the US. It costs about three times less than heroin and produces a similar, but much shorter, high.
But there are very significant - and deadly, differences. Krokodil is made from over-the-counter codeine-based headache pills, mixed with gasoline, paint thinner, cleaning fluid, alcohol, iodine, red phosphorus and hydrochloric acid. It is a derivative of morphine, and has sedative and analgesic effects, but is highly impure and contaminated with various toxic and corrosive by-products.
Krokodil has a similar effect to heroin, but it is far more addictive and deadly.
Krokodil users tend to only live only two or three years.
When the drug is injected into the skin, it often causes gangrene, forcing the skin to rot away leading to amputation of limbs. The side effects are critical and it is also a neurotoxin that causes brain damage, and causes speech problems and erratic muscle movements. It almost immediately starts to destroy blood cells and blood vessels, literally causes gangrene from the inside of the body coming out.
While heroin detoxification lasts a week to ten days, withdrawal from desomorphine can take an agonizing MONTH!
