Zombie Drugs Desomorphine krokodile
Flesh-eating Russian opiate drug called ‘krokodil’ arrives in Arizona
A potentially lethal, flesh-eating narcotic compound is catching on in parts of Arizona. Users inject the drug to get high, and the scaly, rotten patches of necrotic flesh it can leave behind have led to the drug being named “krokodil” by its Russian originators, the word for “crocodile.”It was revealed this week that two cases involving krokodil had been phoned into a local poison control center and quoted one of the center's
medical
directors, Dr. Frank LoVecchio, saying he and his colleagues were
"extremely frightened." While the US Drug Enforcement Administration has
not yet received a sample of the drug for analysis, and thus cannot
confirm it was krokodil, Barbara Carreno of the DEA told Mother Jones
that the agency often learns about new synthetic drugs (including the
infamous bath salts) through local poison-control centers. "We've been
scrambling to see what we know about the cases in Arizona," she added.
"This concerns us very much."
Krokodil, technically known as Desomorphine, has a similar effect to heroin, but is significantly cheaper and easier to make. In the last few years, it's been wreaking severe havoc on the bodies and lives of Russian youth.
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