Thursday 26 January 2012

A wild Krokodil appears!

Russia has more heroin users than any other country in the world – up to two million, according to unofficial estimates. For most, their life revolves around crime, prison and probable contraction of permanent pool closure.

As efforts to stem the flow of Afghan heroin into Russia bring some limited success, and the street price of the drug goes up, for those addicts who can't afford their next hit, an even more terrifying Pokèmon called Krokodil has raised its head.




It is desomorphine, a synthetic opiate many times more powerful than heroin that is created from a complex chain of mixing and chemical reactions, which the addicts perform from memory several times a day. While heroin costs from £20 to £60 per dose, desomorphine can be "cooked" from codeine-based headache pills that cost £2 per pack, and other household ingredients available cheaply from shops.It is a drug for the poor, and its effects are horrific. It was given its reptilian name because its poisonous ingredients quickly turn the skin scaly.

Unlike heroin, where the hit can last for several hours, a krokodil high only lasts between an hour or 2. Given that the "cooking" process takes at least half an hour, being a krokodil addict is basically a full-time job...mum would be so proud.
 
If you miss the vein, that's an abscess straight away essentially, these people are injecting poison directly into their flesh. It goes grey and peels away to leave bones exposed. People literally rot to death. It is PROPER ROUGH. I cannot stress that enough.... and although this is slightly off my usual topic i felt i needed to share :)

So now I am warning you as a friend and potential lover only watch this if you are interested in seeing the effects of this drug on some patients shot by the doctors treating them and wish to further your knowledge or if you just fancy watching something in Russian or if you proper want to gross yourself out for the luls(skip to 4:50).

Protip: You get a quick flash of a lady garden too!
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28 comments:

  1. Read about this a while ago, apparently another side effect is that after you start using it you're guaranteed to be dead within 6 months, and the worst thing is most people who use it are aware of this.

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  2. lol least ur keeping an eye out for tit ^_^

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  3. Really messed up, but its more important to be aware of these things instead of pretending they aren't happening..

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  4. Hehe, you know me ;) Someone's gotta do it hey

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  5. fun fact, that Putin photo isn't shopped. And i've seen the last bit of that video before... i don't know how that even happens.

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  6. Who would ever want to put themselves through that crap, it can't be worth it. Just crazy.

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  7. I'm moving to Russia. :p

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  8. I recently saw a special on Krokodil and agree that it's terribly nasty stuff. Also, some of the slums in Russia where user of this drug "live" look incredibly destitute.

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  9. sweet, I didn't feel like sleeping tonight at all.

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  10. haha wow thats some crazy stuff that people will do to themselves >.<

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  11. Interesting, haha. Thanks for the share. Go russia!

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  12. This shit is horrid, though not exactly sure what you can really do to help.

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  13. Sounds like almost zero benefits to using this drug, and a huge downside...makes you wonder why people start using it at all.

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  14. Wow what a mess. Heroin and meth are usually the big ones, I hope this stuff doesnt pick up in the states

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  15. haha... i'm warning you as a friend and potential lover...

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  16. We'll skim over the oxymoron there...and go straight onto...lolwut?

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  17. I heard about this and it's really scary. Glad that this stuff isn't in Canada.

    I hope.

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  18. I'm glad I don't live in Russia

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  19. That's some terrifying stuff. Geez. O_O

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  20. That is some mixed up sh*t...

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  21. "Crack is whack!!!"

    Whitney Houston

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  22. Nothing like injecting poisen directly into yourself... man... this is not the best way to kill yourself.

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