Krokodil. Homemade drug in Russia, Alternative to heroin, rotting it's users alive.

[ThrashO]

The effects of this drug are INTENSELY GRAPHIC.

It's pretty goddamn sickening. It's causing gangrene in about 60% of it's users.

http://animalvideo.org/?p=4360

There was an image I saw online of a guy who had a huge abscess on the top of his head. It probably stretched from the back of his scalp all the way forward to the bridge of his nose. He was still alive and the look on his face was nearly that of a zombie.

Later they show him on an operating table with just glop and pus and rotted meat falling out of his head. Really sad. I could post the image but it's far too graphic.

If you don't want to read the article it's basically summed up in the last line:

"You feel disgusting doing it and you dream of Heroin. Something clean instead of injecting poison into your skin. But you can't afford it, so you do Krokodil until your dead."

Apparently in Russia Heroin goes for about $40-$120 where as Krokodil is $4-$8. Russia seems like the one of the shittiest places in the world. Like a white Liberia. A friend of mine is learning Russia, and while Russian is a badass language, I see no reason in devoting time to learning what appears to be a dying slaveshit language, soon to be nothing more than cryptic gibberish in a few hundred years.

Heroin dealers are saying that all of there customers have switched to Krokodil.

[executioneer]

COOL

[k0k0]

So it's kind of like the drug from the game Rise of the Dragon. Turns the user into some kind of freakish monster before they die after using it a bit.

[Zhukov]

YOU'RE THEIR GARRRGHHH


Yeah I read about this somewhere else. It sounds truly horrible, but how good must it feel if people are willing to die like that just to do krokodil for a short time?

Probably not that good.

It's apparently very easy to make, too. I'm recalling the ingredients of iodine and codeine.

[Colonel Flagg]

It's not the drug that's doing the damage - it's the impurities and by-products from the synthesis. (like that really matters) Purification costs time and money, and why should the dealers do this when their clientele will pay for the crap.

This is really sad. Very similar to a science fiction story I read many years ago. I believe it was entitled "Rat Race" by Raymond F. Jones, but I'm not sure.

EDIT: The name of the story is "Rat" by James Patrick Kelly. It's very depressing - do not read if you're taking Cymbalta.

[Shrubfest]

That was amazing. I wonder how much he could feel?

The flesh just fell of the bone like slow cooked meat.

Also, who do you think cling-filmed his leg up?

[Pentegarn]

That's worse than anything I have ever seen on House, including the dream episode where they guy had one of his balls explode

[Zhukov]

Also, who do you think cling-filmed his leg up?

Ulrich Haarbürste.

[executioneer]

i didn't know roy orbison did krokodil

[Colonel Flagg]

I had to wait until I got home to watch this. Thankfully the rest of the family is asleep. :puke

[ThrashO]

There's a video going around of this chick in bed crying her eyes out and she's covering her face with her hands and when the camera pulls out her right forearm is pretty much just a bone. It looks like she's moving her fingers though.

It would usually be hard to sympathize with someone who does this to themselves when they know the consequences, but it's really heartbreaking :(

[Pentegarn]

I both feel sympathy and anger at these people. This is why I am a square who never did any drugs, I won't let myself be a victim of my own choices to that degree

[k0k0]

Yeah, this stuff doesn't even look like fun though. I don't know why anyone would want to take this stuff. Of course I don't know why anyone would do heroin either.

[Shrubfest]

Am I just really insensitive? All I can think of is 'Snap snap Snappie, de kleine krokodil'

[Colonel Flagg]

I feel like Walter White - if you're going to do this shit, do it right. Recrystallize the organic drug in methanol, then purify the crap out of it through sublimation. Get the melt point to within <1° of the literature value, THEN it's OK to use. THe "flesh eating" side effect is from the phosphorus that's left behind after the garage synthesis from codeine.

[Dimnos]

You should move to Russia and clean up in the drug trade Colonel.


Also that video looked incredibly fake to me. :\

[Colonel Flagg]

The video may be fake, but I'm afraid the effects are sadly quite real.

[Tadao]

HAHAHAHA I told you that you would like Breaking Bad.

[Dixie]

http://animalnewyork.com/2011/06/flesh-rotting-cheap-heroin-alternative-is-hot-in-russia/
nice pictures of defleshing.

and here's what i got when i GIS "krokodil":
http://www.toonpool.com/user/390/files/krokodil_32205.jpg

[Colonel Flagg]

HAHAHAHA I told you that you would like Breaking Bad.

pickleworthy

[k0k0]

Breaking Bad is awesome, but I'm sure making this shit clean would drive up the price, leading to people doing the same shit they're doing now. People would rather just pay with their lives rather than money, which is retarded.

[Tadao]

If I lived in Russia I would probably find a cheap way to get high and not care if I died.

[Colonel Flagg]

Nope, K0K0. Purification can be done very economically, with a modest initial capital investment. The only problem would be avoiding prison. :(

[k0k0]

Well damn, there's no reason they shouldn't do it that way. Does it take more time to do? Cuz from what I hear, the effects only last for 3 hours and by the time they need more in them or they feel sick.

[ThrashO]

Nope, K0K0. Purification can be done very economically, with a modest initial capital investment. The only problem would be avoiding prison. :(

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I don't know what sounds better... Turning into a wicked cool skeleton guy or being in a Russian prison.

[Zhukov]

That'll teach them for going to prison.

I mean Russia.

[Supafly345]

I've heard a different story about this video, not that it was the drug, but rather the fact that they used tap water instead of sterile water to make it with. And the water over there is dirty.

[Colonel Flagg]

And therein lies the problem - purification. :posh

[Supafly345]

Send me some of your meth someday Flagg.

[Tadao]

AGREED

[Colonel Flagg]

wait til I get nut cancer

[Nick]

From what I hear if you end up in a Russian prison you've had to do something really major. That's why the guards feel that it's okay to beat the shit out of you on a daily basis.