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2. Still no reports of it here in NM, where it would spread like wildfire

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:31 PM

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among people addicted to the more expensive black tar heroin coming up from Mexico. The average time from first usage to death is one year.

It's just another shining reason why the drug war is such a failure. Opiates are not particularly damaging to body systems even when taken at high doses for a long time. Bathtub drugs kill.

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Horrific flesh-rotting drug krokodil may be in Chicago, doctor says [View all] Indi Guy Oct 2013 OP

And its not even illegal. bunnies Oct 2013 #1

Oh, it's illegal, all right... derby378 Oct 2013 #12

Check this out... bunnies Oct 2013 #14

I think a piece of my brain just imploded derby378 Oct 2013 #17

Thats exactly what happened to me when I first read it. bunnies Oct 2013 #18

Thanks for the advice derby378 Oct 2013 #20

Perhaps some of the hospitals enlightenment Oct 2013 #26

Still no reports of it here in NM, where it would spread like wildfire Warpy Oct 2013 #2

Opiate overdose is a myth? FrodosPet Oct 2013 #29

Opiate overdose happens because the black market Warpy Oct 2013 #38

Wow. That's awful. n/t leftyladyfrommo Oct 2013 #41

I don't understand why anybody would take a flesh rotting drug? Voice for Peace Oct 2013 #3

Desperation when saner options aren't cutting it anymore (or aren't available). (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #4

Addiction sucks. Ruby the Liberal Oct 2013 #6

Because the nature-given real drugs are all illegal. Jamastiene Oct 2013 #21

I do not believe for one moment that if weed were legal everywhere Bonduel Oct 2013 #24

Of course not. Jamastiene Oct 2013 #28

Yah, we learned about it in school. darkangel218 Oct 2013 #5

Back in the 70's, I used to think powder cocaine was bad dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #7

I was from the 60's leftyladyfrommo Oct 2013 #42

sucks to be them but actions have consequences.... dont do drugs. boomer55 Oct 2013 #8

It's really an unreasonably bad consequence ... brett_jv Oct 2013 #10

Agreed. Jamastiene Oct 2013 #23

+100 and I'm an oldster. War on drugs has got to end and hopefully end this taking of poisons wordpix Oct 2013 #31

yes even that synth pot K2 can poison you lunasun Oct 2013 #33

yup that shit is deadly... madrchsod Oct 2013 #35

it is a legal substitute for illegal marijuana lunasun Oct 2013 #37

Oh, yea. leftyladyfrommo Oct 2013 #43

How ironic that something named after a predatory reptile should be dangerous ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2013 #9

This was a slang name given to the drug based on one of its side effects DisgustipatedinCA Oct 2013 #44

I think I'll stick with dipsydoodle Oct 2013 #11

Heck, snorting live badgers would probably be a safer long-term bet than that stuff. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #13

... bunnies Oct 2013 #19

think this is coming from russia? or made here from domestic codeine tablets? Sunlei Oct 2013 #15

I'd bet it's made domestically. backscatter712 Oct 2013 #27

"paint thinner, iodine, hydrochloric acid, red phosphorus, gasoline and lighter fluid." Zorra Oct 2013 #16

It's basically like cooking meth, except using codeine instead of pseudoephedrine. backscatter712 Oct 2013 #22

hard to believe anyone would put those toxic chemicals in one's body wordpix Oct 2013 #32

Are you stressed out, have too many worries? Ask your doctor about Krokodil! backscatter712 Oct 2013 #25

You forgot to put the windblown seascape... Indi Guy Oct 2013 #30

And I need the cartoon of the drug's molecular effects... backscatter712 Oct 2013 #34

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Not in Florida? alp227 Oct 2013 #39

Desomorphine is 80 years old and has been in continuous use in the US since then Recursion Oct 2013 #40

Just last week, I was reading up on how our failed WOD accounts for the epidemic of Krokodil in msanthrope Oct 2013 #45

This is why we need to liberalize our drug laws. roamer65 Oct 2013 #46

What could possibly go wrong injecting paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, red phosphorus, gasoline... Hekate Oct 2013 #47