'Krokodil': injecting poison directly into your flesh
In case you were worried that your life wasn't pathetic or miserable enough, here's a heartwarming story out of Russia in which junkies who can't afford heroin are resorting to a completely toxic option called "krokodil" that is literally dissolving their skin down to the bone:
The home-made drug that Oleg and Sasha inject is known as krokodil, or "crocodile". It is desomorphine, a synthetic opiate many times more powerful than heroin that is created from a complex chain of mixing and chemical reactions, which the addicts perform from memory several times a day. While heroin costs from UK20 to UK60 per dose, desomorphine can be "cooked" from codeine-based headache pills that cost UK2 per pack, and other household ingredients available cheaply from the markets.
It is a drug for the poor, and its effects are horrific. It was given its reptilian name because its poisonous ingredients quickly turn the skin scaly. Worse follows. Oleg and Sasha have not been using for long, but Oleg has rotting sores on the back of his neck.
"If you miss the vein, that's an abscess straight away," says Sasha. Essentially, they are injecting poison directly into their flesh. One of their friends, in a neighbouring apartment block, is further down the line.
"She won't go to hospital, she just keeps injecting. Her flesh is falling off and she can hardly move anymore," says Sasha. Photographs of late-stage krokodil addicts are disturbing in the extreme. Flesh goes grey and peels away to leave bones exposed. People literally rot to death.
Good times. [Thanks, Sam Hell!]
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Unlike some articles which rely on poor sources, omit or twist critical details, or take government hearsay as infallible doctrine, this one makes your case pretty clearly. Injecting "ingredients" is a clear sign that people are performing sloppy, incomplete reactions and/or purification by whatever means (I doubt they have glass distillation setups.) However, laymen or virgins in the field of psychoactives might think the "ingredients" (or, adulterants) are inherently part of the desired product. I seriously doubt scotto is part of that population.
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