Russian Drug Krokodil Causes Skin to Rot
This drug, desomorphine, is made from over the counter opiate codine, mixed with other substances, including iodine, gasoline, phosphorus. It causes serious medical problems for people who use it and many of them die within a few years after they start using the drug. People use it as a cheaper substitute for heroin. Aparently people get really bored in the winter in russia and have nothing better to do than take drugs
this article has some interesting stories about users
Why does this drug cause the skin to rot?
People are saying that it is not due the effect of the drug itself, but due to impurities from the home synthesis process. If they purified their desomorphine they would not have these (irreversible?) effects. Also because they are using needles that are not sterilized.
Is this a new drug?
It has been around in Russia for a while. There are videos and information in russian language showing the effects of the drug from 2009 or earlier. It only became famous in the english speaking world in the last few days because of some high profile articles written about it
These are some images of the terrible effects of the drug:
The flesh has rotted off and the bone is showing
This is supposed to be a krokodil drug lab
God, those poor, poor people… =(
Don’t victimize these people. Nobody forced them to use such a dangerous drug. They’re junkie scum bags and deserve every bit of misfortune that comes from their decisions.
hey matt, nice comment. you are an idiot. why don’t you go run over some homeless people while you’re at it. hopefully you will never suffer misfortune.
stupid Jerks! let them die!
I did drugs, I stopped, cocaine, weed, speed, xtc.
and my life sucked, had to us to feel good.
I was an idiot, now that I stopped using, my life is the bom again!
but I would never use shit like that, no matter how good it feels.
Your sanctimony stinks…shut your mouth. These people are fuckin TRASH and Matt’s right, no one forced them to do drugs. I was once impoverished…I didn’t turn to shooting crap in my veins. just…stfu
when you were on drugs did you want to hear your trash, worthless, and that you deserved to die.NO people who have these addictions did make stupid choices but they do not need to hear negative things.People with these problems need a to hear positive things….they need help, the last thing they need is to be bashed!!!!
your the scumbag if you don’t think these people need pity. its because of dickheads like you that they felt low enough to start doing something so evil. i wish bad things for you…and hope these poor individuals get the help they need to get better…god bless them
“I wish bad things for you [...] god bless them”
Thank you for being such an easy to demonstrate microcosm of what is wrong with the world.
I myself had issues with drugs,so while it is unfortunate these people are addicted,no one held a gun to their heads n told them to use ,them as myself deserved everything that happened to me and them,no one else to blame but themselves,people have the right to say anything they feel ,
Matt,
Nobody ever aspired to become a drug addict. When I grow up I want to be an addict. This is a disease. It is based on choice after one gets into rehab however; its like another voice/personality saying things to the unfortunate ones who are afflicted with addiction/brain disease. And its very sad. Do some research before you voice your opinion. Educate yourself on the issue. Thanks.
Are you joking. Those people did that to themselves!
I hope our young teenagers will see these pics, and know what the outcome is to using this drugs. It’s been the new trend in the U.S. I just can’t ever imagine putting myself through something like that after seeing these facts.
I second that…teenagers need to realise what drugs can do to you. Its shocking and can leave you in such disasterous circumstances!!!
Ah, typical adult assuming all teenagers who use drugs are stupid. I am 19, I took my first hard drug when I was 15. I have always been careful as to how much and how often I use. I am in college, and scored a 141 on my IQ test this year (if you believe those tests are indicative of actual intelligence.) Let us not buy into the stereotypical ‘just another stupid kid using drugs’ routine. I have never been in trouble with the law, am independent from all government aid programs, and have always had high grades. Don’t believe everything you see on your TV set.
I’ve always been interested in how nutrition and exercise can take my body to its ultimate performance. I see my body as a present from the Universe. My only vehicle in this life. Then I see people like this… While some would do anything to have a perfect body, others trash their own for a few minutes of artificial pleasure! What a shame!!!
They are not victims though. We are all responsible for everything we do in life, what we choose to do or not, which path we take. When are we going to take responsibility for our own actions?
Making it about you. How self-centered can you be?
You’re so right!!
This is an awful drug. And people should really think twice before using any drug. But using a drug that is made from iodine, gasoline, red phosphorus come on now, use some common sense. Its not the dirty needles or the process in which they make it is the ingredients! GASOLINE AND RED PHOSPHORUS will kill you if ingested or injected. Ingestion kills faster than injection though and using something that will rot your skin right off your body is just unthinkable. People need to use common sense when it comes to putting things into their bodies.
i am with you all the way there. this is just terrible…and to know that there is people out there that will do ANYTHING just for a fix. it is really sooo sad. and they dont think..they just dont…they just do!!!!
I’m writing a research paper on Krokodil right now and reading the history of desomorphine is just incredible. It’s crazy to see how a drug that was made to help morphine addicts off their addictions has turned into one of the most dangerous drugs in the world.
People are not simply discovering this drug and getting hooked. It’s established heroine addicts that are turning to the drug because it is 2£ as opposed to 20£ or more for heroine. I’m not sure that anyone here has ever tried to get off heroine, so please pretend that you already have a life you feel is not worth living, it’s easy to take the plunge into a two year death sentence when your desperate for a fix, and don’t care one bit about anything else. I bet 1,000 junkies would gladly give their arm for a hit at their most desperate moment. These are people’s children and brothers and sisters. Don’t think for a minuet that this drug couldn’t ever touch your life or even eat YOU alive.
Fantastic reply! These people can’t think, let alone think about any consequence! Plus we are dealing with countries that do not offer spoon-fed addiction centers! It’s tragic, not just about choice!
Please tell me a website I can donate some money to the rehabs over there, they need help so bad. Its a tragedy this horrible drug sucks the life force from you, it makes me want to cry, I blame this on Satan he causes people to stumble, and its Satan that has caused all the tragic things you see in society, and one day the Lord will come and the truth will be revealed, what has happened here.
There is no such thing as “Lord” and “Satan” come on now. Stop living in a fictional dream world. This is REALITY.
If methadone wasn’t illegal in Russia this would never have happened. Methadone is one of the worlds most researched drugs so there’s a lot more info than some drug made in someones house. This is a shame and the Russian government should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen. Codine is legal over the counter but heroin is illegal. There opiate problems are more like 19th century America with house wives as the main users. This should never have been allowed to happen. Dying in an overdose is one thing but dying alive and being a living corpse is just sick to let happen to somebody. The Russian government hates opiate junkies so you know there not loosing any sleep over there deaths but can they atleast die fast. Just imagine how painful that must be to have exposed bones and flesh falling off. A tooth ache is very painful I can’t even think of how much pain they must be in and how scared they must be. If they stop will the rot stop eating them alive? If the affected areas are removed will it continue to destroy body tissue if the person stopped taking desomorphine? I feel bad and hope they can live the best life they could for there circumstances ie no arms or legs or even missing both, etc.
I hope those losers over there do die and that it teaches the other losers not to do something this stupid. And why waste your money Sarah? I wouldn’t send any money anywhere that helps losers who are addicted to drugs, not even here in America. And blame Satan? You’re a dumb ass just like the rest. Satan has nothing to do with idiots who do drugs, it’s their own stupidity to do it. Everyone wants to put the blame on someone else but themselves. But whatever people will read this and think I’m stupid or whatever but I really don’t care..kiss my a$$ for all I care.
OMG I cannot believe I’m reading this sh1t, Sarah you donate money to a charity not an addiction, as for the name of the drug it kind of gives it away, you would not swim with um so why try an swallow one???? Get a grip people leave the gods to gods you pay for drugs top whack money they don’t come cheap enter the real world. Or better still don’t bother at all it’s a loot cheaper !!!
do you peoples wanna live forever????
somepeoples need to go first …heaven estate needs buyers
try krokodil if you want vice versa
For God’s sake–just give them their damned heroin and be done with it. These people will do anything for a fix, but they are still people–doesn’t the state have some sort of obligations towards them?
The idea of a nanny state is starting to sound good around now…
I don’t know what they did or if they are trash NO ONE DESERVES THIS =(
I don’t wanna look at these individuals and feel pity for them, pity leads no where, i do believe that it is insane to even consider taking a drug like this, and yeah we could go on about the fact that those people might deserve whats happening to them or not or whatever. exept for the satan part. religion has no place in that debate. what i do believe is that closing the roads to keep the heroin trafic was legit. thats a no brainer but not having a backup plan and thinking that krocodil users would not come up with a way to get theyr fix away and they were just gonna give up…thats silly. obviously the cause and effect matter has not been raised and we now see the result. because its a drug made with codein the russian autorities now plan to outlaw it. I dont think thats the solution either, lesson is, when you make something unavailable people will find a replacement. instead, they should legalize methadone. of course, legalize it in the same way they do it in canada, wich is, get a prescription, get your dose and cosume it at the parmacy counter every day, once day, regulate it strickly, also, being part of the raising countries the BRIC, im sure they could invest money for rehab center, not only would it help the ones who want to seek help ( there’S only four center right now) but it would also create jobs, since unemployment lead to boredom that drove some (not all but some) people to start using. i know its not all the solution, but i do belive it would be at least a goddamn start!
naka