Krokodil and the flesh-rotting horror of the drug that EATS junkies is on the rise in Britain

[Sugar Cookie]

Horryfing images show the effects of a highly dangerous flesh-eating substance known as Krokodil, which is set to infiltrate the streets of Britain as desperate addicts can purchase it for a tenth of the price of heroin.

The number of people in the UK suffering with Krokodil addiction is already on the rise, leaving them with rotting flesh and pus-filled wounds.

The drug, which is more powerful than heroin, is easily accessible and can be made for just a few pounds from a mixture of supermarket products including painkillers and lighter fluid.

From the point when an addict first takes the deadly drug, their life expectancy drops to just over two years, doctors estimate.

Krodile users who inject the substence can suffer horrifying symptoms such as their blood vessels bursting and their skin turning green and rotting away around the infected area.

The drug has been avaliable for around the last decade, branded as a cheap alternative to heroin, users are able to make it at home for a tenth of the cost

The 'zombie' drug, named for the effect it has on addicts, has also proved a problem in hostels, a housing officer for Somerset's Taunton Deane Borough Council said that addicts behavior is indefensible.

The drug is on the rise due to how easy it is to create and use, Chemistry lecturer Dr Simon Cotton from the University of Birmingham confirmed that it is 'very easy' to make. These cheap unpuried methods are likely to be what is causing the horrifying symptoms, which include thrombosis, gangrene, abscesses and crocodile-like skin.

Chemist Click pharmacist Abbas Kanani told the Sun: 'Without any exaggeration, Krokodil is probably one of the worst drugs in the world.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...tures-reveal-impact-deadly-Krokodil-drug.html

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Ignorant, ignorant people.

 

[cubby]

I don't think they're ignorant, they know and they do it anyway, I don't know what you call that. Stupid and moronic maybe.

 

[Siobhan]

They use easily available codeine pills, like "Tylenol 3" (or Tylenol 4), that they "cook" in gasoline and other petroleum/turpentine based products (none of which remove the binders or Tylenol from the codeine pills), and the impurities from the "cooking chemicals" cause skin/flesh eating bacterial infections that often rot completely to the bone.
There are many photos that are far more horrific than this one, some where the wounds have healed but large and long areas of arm and leg bones are completely exposed with the skin going *underneath/behind* the exposed bone, and others where gangrene is so bad that the entire limb must be removed from the shoulder, hip, or knee.
Much of the use of this began in Russia, Ukraine and other Baltic states/areas, where heroine became harder for addicts to procure and addiction treatment clinics, like methadone clinics etc., simply don't exist to try to help those who honestly want to escape their addictions.
In many of those same places, along with Canada and Mexico, Tylenol 3 can be purchased over the counter or with a customer's signature.

Ignorant, ignorant people.

I don't think they're ignorant, they know and they do it anyway, I don't know what you call that. Stupid and moronic maybe.

I believe it's possible that both of these statements are true, I believe it was @Fellofftheporch who said in the "Man eaten by the bear he raise from a cub" thread summed both that and this situation perfectly:

Goes along with... "It won't happen to me".

ETA: As a chemist who worked in part of the health industry (drinking waters), I am always aghast to see the extent people will go to in creating a biohazardous area with meth labs and such, in addition to them actually consuming the "drugs" they've made out of toxic waste materials.

 

[Brillig]

Perhaps the 2 year life expectancy is a blessing in disguise. People stupid enough to use a drug this toxic and dangerous should probably be removed from the gene pool.

 

[LFODBiker]

People stupid enough to use a drug this toxic and dangerous should probably be removed from the gene pool.

Darwin in real-time.

 

[Craygor]

Much of the use of this began in Russia, Ukraine and other Baltic states/areas, where heroine became harder for addicts to procure and addiction treatment clinics, like methadone clinics etc., simply don't exist to try to help those who honestly want to escape their addictions.

Help to escape from addiction is not a problem in Britain, so I'm with this Brillig and LFODBiker on this one, fuck'em, let'em die. The only concern we should have is if this starts a zombie apocalypse, because by the looks of it, krokodil users are walking dead.

 

[Sejanus]

Bloody junkies.