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(14,691 posts) Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:21 PM Sep 2013

Warning graphic content: Deadly drug that rots flesh of users arrives in Arizona [View all]

Source: New York Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/warning-graphic-drug-rots-flesh-arrives-arizona-article-1.1468058

Known as Krokodil, the drug not only kills most users within a year of their first hit, it eats away at their skin and opens giant sores down to the bone.

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Warning graphic content: Deadly drug that rots flesh of users arrives in Arizona [View all] LiberalElite Sep 2013 OP

Did an image search for Krokodil.... NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #1

OK NYC_SKP, you made me look. Marie Marie Sep 2013 #18

Do NOT do drugs! NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #19

My brother showed me a documentary about it a year or so ago obama2terms Sep 2013 #41

Why would anyone use such a lethal and painful drug? CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2013 #2

.... DeSwiss Sep 2013 #16

Someone stuck deep in drug addiction isn't going to be in a rational place. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2013 #17

Desperation mostly Major Nikon Sep 2013 #22

I looked at the pictures and kept thinking of that paperclip bubble: freshwest Sep 2013 #26

Probably because their usual dealer got busted and Warpy Sep 2013 #29

The ingredient list makes me want to call bullshit Scootaloo Sep 2013 #3

those are some of what is used to make it - see the Wiki entry I posted, below. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2013 #5

I'm skeptical about this story. Chakab Sep 2013 #6

It's real. Here's info from the state of NY, official source: Liberty Belle Sep 2013 #27

This is bathtub desomorphine cooked up by junkies. It's the impurities, not the drug itself. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #31

Someone HAD to have been high to come up with that cocktail.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #9

Either that or totally insane. Angleae Sep 2013 #14

Maybe they were watching Daffy Duck, and thought, "Hey, cool" Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #21

I always wondered why Daffy was going up. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #24

The drug itself is real. JoeyT Sep 2013 #13

Wikipedia entry about it here NRaleighLiberal Sep 2013 #4

Its real... Kencorburn Sep 2013 #7

Sounds a lot like the Tea Party - n/t primavera Sep 2013 #8

A Vice video illustrates of how bad this drug is. Lobo27 Sep 2013 #10

Yes addicts live only 2 to 3 years on average when using this horrid stuff. LiberalLoner Sep 2013 #42

So Walter White's obsession with purity isn't so crazy. nt valerief Sep 2013 #11

Jezzus effing christ Iliyah Sep 2013 #12

Desomorphine arrived in 1932..... DeSwiss Sep 2013 #15

Excellent post. Thanks. n/t Laelth Sep 2013 #36

I think I might pass. Kablooie Sep 2013 #20

Oh dear God, that's just morbid windsormich19454 Sep 2013 #23

I don't know. Every few years there's a new moral panic drug story out there Recursion Sep 2013 #25

It's b/c of poisons in the drug. Impurities. Dash87 Sep 2013 #40

Well if the cost of treatment wasn't 3 or 4 x's what it costs to stay high inch4progress Sep 2013 #28

I don't get it Scairp Sep 2013 #30

With a potency 8-10 times that of heroin, the preservation instict might be completely overwhelmed. inch4progress Sep 2013 #34

That's downright.... ReRe Sep 2013 #32

Is anyone... Vestigial_Sister Sep 2013 #33

Yeah, I don't think many people are clicking that link after reading the article. progressoid Sep 2013 #37

Mix in a little "bath salts" and you got yourself a full fledged zombie. nt Javaman Sep 2013 #35

another 'gift' from russia. with that huge open border & huge smugglers network we will see more. Sunlei Sep 2013 #38

I saw this Vice documentary about it recently, scary stuff... Turborama Sep 2013 #39