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First Cases of Flesh-Eating Drug Emerge In the United States
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Having spent the last decade wreaking havoc in Russia, a flesh-eating drug called Krokodil has arrived in Arizona, reports Eliza Gray at Time Magazine. The Banner Poison Control Center has reported the first two users of the drug which makes user's skin scaly and green before it rots away [Warning: Graphic Images]. Made of codeine, a painkiller often used in cough syrup, and a mix of other materials including gasoline, paint thinner, and alcohol, Krokodil become popular in Russia because it costs 20 times less than heroin and can be made easily at home. Also known as Desomorphine, Krokodil has sedative and analgesic effects, and is around 8-10 times more potent than morphine. When the drug is injected, it rots the skin by rupturing blood vessels, causing the tissue to die. As a result, the skin hardens and rots, sometimes even falling off to expose the bone. 'These people are the ultimate in self-destructive drug addiction,' says Dr. Ellen Marmur. 'Once you are an addict at this level, any rational thinking doesn't apply.' The average life span of a Krokodil user is two to three years, according to a 2011 TIME investigation of the drug's prevalence in Russia."
Oh, sure, but if someone tries to climb Mt. Everest and ends up losing their fingers, toes and half their face to frostbite, it was an exhilarating human adventure, eh?
Mt. Everest kills a higher percentage of its users than methamphetamine.
Though, okay, I suppose injecting gasoline into your veins is a pretty bad idea.
That guy should join a debate club because he would win after his opponents all fell over laughing.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Can't think of a single film where the heroine was illegal.
I'm pretty sure Natalie Portman was illegal in Leon.
There has never been a direct death from Marijuana.
False. I remember reading about how someone got a bale of the stuff accidentally dropped on him, and got crushed.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean.
...drug consumes addict.
I did put a fair number of rats through opioid withdrawal
were any of them able to stay clean?
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
Now joy on the other hand...
Selling joy's only legal in Nevada.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
They didn't have a choice either way.