Indagrow
Well-Known Member
So i had a ceninar on drug use and related medical tells for work... the guy brought up Krokodil a homemade substitute for heroin that is sweeping the UK. Here is a brief write up on it from wiki;
The street name in Russia for home-made desomorphine is "krokodil" (крокодил, crocodile), reportedly due to the scale-like appearance of skin of its users and the derivation from chlorocodide.[SUP][9][/SUP] Due to difficulties in procuring heroin, combined with easy and cheap access to over-the-counter pharmacy products containing codeine in Russia, use of "krokodil" has been on the increase. The high associated with krokodil is akin to that of heroin, but lasts a much shorter period. While the effects of heroin use can last four to eight hours, the effects of krokodil do not usually extend past one and a half hours,[SUP][10][/SUP] with the symptoms of withdrawal setting in soon after. Krokodil takes roughly 30 minutes to an hour to prepare with over-the-counter ingredients in a kitchen.[SUP][11][/SUP] Since the home-made mix is routinely injected immediately with little or no further purification, "krokodil" has become notorious for producing severe tissue damage, phlebitis and gangrene, sometimes requiring limb amputation in long-term users.[SUP][12][/SUP] The amount of tissue damage is so high that addicts' life expectancies are said to be as low as two to three years, especially as they are often highly susceptible to infections and gangrene due to widespread HIV infection among injecting drug users in Russia
and a movie for those visual learners out there..
[video=youtube_share;KHRhSYHOuU8]http://youtu.be/KHRhSYHOuU8[/video]
I mean im pretty sure i don't need to say this but.. dont do krokodil! having battled with an opioid addiction myself i can see why a free high may sound appealing but if you saw someone with the aforementioned effects of the use i would hope that would lead you in another direction. To those who still use the drug even with knowledge of its effects... well you don't deserve health.
The street name in Russia for home-made desomorphine is "krokodil" (крокодил, crocodile), reportedly due to the scale-like appearance of skin of its users and the derivation from chlorocodide.[SUP][9][/SUP] Due to difficulties in procuring heroin, combined with easy and cheap access to over-the-counter pharmacy products containing codeine in Russia, use of "krokodil" has been on the increase. The high associated with krokodil is akin to that of heroin, but lasts a much shorter period. While the effects of heroin use can last four to eight hours, the effects of krokodil do not usually extend past one and a half hours,[SUP][10][/SUP] with the symptoms of withdrawal setting in soon after. Krokodil takes roughly 30 minutes to an hour to prepare with over-the-counter ingredients in a kitchen.[SUP][11][/SUP] Since the home-made mix is routinely injected immediately with little or no further purification, "krokodil" has become notorious for producing severe tissue damage, phlebitis and gangrene, sometimes requiring limb amputation in long-term users.[SUP][12][/SUP] The amount of tissue damage is so high that addicts' life expectancies are said to be as low as two to three years, especially as they are often highly susceptible to infections and gangrene due to widespread HIV infection among injecting drug users in Russia
and a movie for those visual learners out there..
[video=youtube_share;KHRhSYHOuU8]http://youtu.be/KHRhSYHOuU8[/video]
I mean im pretty sure i don't need to say this but.. dont do krokodil! having battled with an opioid addiction myself i can see why a free high may sound appealing but if you saw someone with the aforementioned effects of the use i would hope that would lead you in another direction. To those who still use the drug even with knowledge of its effects... well you don't deserve health.
