Krokodil Drug Is Eating Up Addicts In Russia

Krokodil Drug Is Eating Up Addicts In Russia - There are drugs, addictive substances that harm the body and mind, and then there is Krokodil. This drug, an illegal, synthesized opiate far more powerful than heroin, is responsible for some of the most destructive narcotic-related suffering the world has ever seen. As far as drug safety goes, Krokodil is at the bottom. 

Prescription drugs, while sometimes responsible for deadly overdoes, are manufactured under strict supervision as to their purity and ingredients. Even street drugs such as cocaine and marijuana are usually processed and produced by criminals that have a pretty good idea of what they're doing.

Ingredient Krokodil Drug

Krokodil, on the other hand, is produced with no regard for its purity or the effect it will have on the human body. The actual drug at the heart of the sludge-desomorphine-may be just as bad for you as other opiate drugs (in other words, you can get addicted to it and have negative health effects just like you could with Vicodin or morphine.)

In order to produce desomorphine, however, addicts home brewing the drug introduce many impurities and toxic additives. After an hour and a half the addict is worrying about how to get another fix, and the caustic poisons in their body have already started to take effect.

Even short-term use of Krokodil can lead to a user's skin taking on a scaley, dying appearance before it starts to flake off. If you want graphic and disturbing proof of this phenomenon, run a Google Images search on the drug. You have been warned: these images are a nauseating example of what exactly drug use can do to a person's body.

Preventing Krokodil Drug Use

The Drug Enforcement Agency has been watching to see if the drug makes an appearance in the United States, but as of 2011 it had not shown up here yet. In a way, Krokodil is a worst-case scenario drug. Obviously, no one wants this to spread to their own community.

Just like the actual spread of an epidemic, Krokodil is a disease that needs to be stopped before it can spread any further. By educating ourselves, our families and our communities about the dangers of drugs in general, we can help others to not make the mistake of starting to use drugs in the first place. By helping prevent first-time drug use, hopefully we can prevent Krokodil from every devouring any more lives.

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