Horrific flesh-rotting drug krokodil may be in Chicago, doctor says

[brett_jv]

10. It's really an unreasonably bad consequence ...

Created directly by the 'War on (some) Drugs'.

IOW poor addicts substituting a horrifyingly evil bathtub version of their drug of choice because they can't afford the hugely inflated cost (or lack of availability) of said DoC (both being directly due to the WoD).

I say, let them have their DoC at a price that reasonably reflects it's cost of production and cost/supply relationship, and they would have it at far lower cost than this 'krokodil' crap, not to mention put the drug gangs out of business, and put the tax money (and saving in jail costs) into the coffers of the state, and make addiction help available at a low cost.

The consequences of the drug war are far worse than the consequences from the drugs themselves. As mentioned above, pharmaceutical opioids are borderline harmless to the body's systems (apart from the addiction, of course), even when shot ... as long as that's done in a sanitary way (clean needles, etc ... hard to come by in many areas of the US). Instead we have people getting their damn flesh eaten away and dying. FOR WHAT?!?

The WoD is stupid, evil, inhumane, and insanely expensive in so very many ways. Not to mention, it violates people's freedom pretty profoundly.