{"id":941,"date":"2013-02-26T23:19:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T23:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikemalonedds.com\/blog1\/?p=941"},"modified":"2019-08-06T19:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T19:46:47","slug":"the-craze-of-the-crocodile-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/the-craze-of-the-crocodile-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"The Craze of the Crocodile Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia has seen its share of drug epidemics, but none as disgusting as this. \u00a0In the past five years, there has been an outbreak of the tremendously damaging new designer drug called \u2018krokadil\u2019 or ‘the Crocodile drug.’<\/p>\n

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What is it?<\/h3>\n

For those who don\u2019t know, a designer drug is one that is either created or marketed to avoid the provisions of existing drugs laws, usually by modifying their chemical structure.\u00a0 Krokadil is a derivative of morphine or heroin; its medical name is\u00a0desomorphine<\/a>, a \u201csynthetic opiate that is created from a complex chain of mixing and chemical reactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The drug produces similar effects to that of heroin, but is three times more potent plus it costs a fraction of the price.\u00a0 The inevitable outcome of this deadly equation is soaring popularity among young people, especially in poorer, more remote and colder areas of Russia.\u00a0 Since 2009, the amount of krokadil seized has increased 23 times over.\u00a0 During the first three months of 2011 alone, 65 million doses were confiscated by the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia.<\/p>\n

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The problem has been drawn to the attention of President Dmitri Medvedev by FDCS officials and governors of regions in which half of addictions and drug-related deaths were attributed to Krokadil use.\u00a0 President Medvedev realized\u00a0the scope of the problem<\/a>\u00a0when he internet searched \u2018krokadil\u2019 and a multitude of pages discussing recipes and usage instructions came up in the results.<\/p>\n

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You want to put that in your body…?<\/h3>\n

Recovering addict\u00a0Irina Pavlova<\/a>\u00a0can vouch for the simplicity of concocting the drug.\u00a0\u00a0To make krokadil<\/a>, addicts mix the active and widely available component codeine together with gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine, red phosphorous, and other accessible household ingredients.<\/p>\n

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What are the side effects?<\/h3>\n

The side affects are almost too horrible to\u00a0look at<\/a>.\u00a0 The drug gets its name \u2018Crocodile\u2019 from the green, scaly skin that forms near injection sites as a result of bursting blood vessels and dying tissue.<\/p>\n

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Krokadil literally is a flesh-eating drug\u2014as you will see from the pictures, if you can stomach them.\u00a0 Flesh, whether it\u2019s the arms or legs or anywhere else on the body becomes grey and peels away until bones are exposed entirely.\u00a0 Because the drug is visibly eating at your body, most users don\u2019t live beyond two or three years unless one manages to quit like Pavlova.\u00a0 Be warned, however\u2014there are permanent side effects for someone like her who used the drug every day for six years.\u00a0 Pavlova now suffers a speech impediment and loss of motor skills from permanent brain damage.<\/p>\n

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Some are attributing Krokodil to the \u2018zombie apocolypse<\/a>\u2019 a term that describes the psychotic side effects of taking such designer drugs.\u00a0 Though bath salts and K2 may cause users to attack other people (and even bite them), krokodil is on a whole different level with its flesh-eating ability turn any normal human into the walking dead.\u00a0 In other words, it\u2019s not your fault if you mistake a krokodil user for a real-life zombie.<\/p>\n

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So far Russia is the only country where the drug has been a pandemic; the DEA has not reported any cases in the U.S. so far, though one spokesman reports he wouldn\u2019t be surprised when that day comes.<\/p>\n

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