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

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 02:18 AM

Sep 2013

this wouldn't be the problem that it is.

Give the people free heroin, methadone, suboxone instead. Although following usage of this "home baked" drug their tolerance is going to have to be seriously tweaked downward, which is easily accomplished at home or in a health care setting.

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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