Very hard to look at, isn't? It is called Krokodil and it was "created" in the land of Vodka and Stalin. Is the russian cheap version of heroin. The price of heroin in Russia is a bit high (50 Euros a dose) but Krokodil can be "cook" so is reacheable for most of the junkies that can't afford heroin."It seems to have first appeared in Siberia and the Russian Far East around 2002, but only in the past three years has it spread throughout the country. Since 2009, the amount of krokodil seized in Russia has increased 23-fold, according to the head of the Federal Drug Control Service, Viktor Ivanov. In the first three months of this year alone, the service says, it confiscated 65 million doses"
The main component is codeine, a wadely sold-over-the-counter (this means that you can get it in a drug store without a prescription.) painkiller that is not harmful by it self. "But to produce krokodil, whose medical name is desomorphine, addicts mix it with ingredients including gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes" (Taken from http://world.time.com/ "The curse of the crocodile: Russia's deadly designer drug").
According to some offcial sites (not mentioned by the article pointed previously) more than 2 millions junkies in Russia are using this drug and has been considered an epidemic. Those who are hooked to this have a life expectation of no more than 3 years. Three year of being a rotten walking body. And this is how addicts to it look like:
The "rotting" explains the drug's nickname. At the injection site, which can be anywhere from the feet to the forehead, the addict's skin becomes greenish and scaly, like a crocodile's, as blood vessels burst and the surrounding tissue dies. Gangrene and amputations are a common result, while porous bone tissue, especially in the lower jaw, often starts to dissipate, eaten up by the drug's acidity.
More and more people are awere of the effects of this drug, and even being awere of them the amount of junkies goes higher and higher as time passes by. Some people are okey with drugs, some people reject them, some other use them to "expand" their minds, and sadly, some others use them for a lame 2 hour "happy time"; which will cost their lifes, or if they are very lucky, their limbs.
After reading this, and now that you know what Krokodil contains (gasoline, paint thinner, among others) would you even consider try it out? After all, there must be a reason why Russians are so into it. Or maybe you can try to understand why they use it.
A final image for you to think it over.
Many sites have covered this. If you want to read more about it, here go a cuople of links:
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