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By: Shreya Bhattad

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Poor Man's Heroin, zombie drug, crocodile drug

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Desomorphine

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Krokodil is classified as a narcotic and is essentially the meth of opiates, similar to heroin.

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Krokodil is a concoction made by cooking codeine with other ingredients including iodine and red phosphorous as well as noxious additives like paint thinner, gasoline, lighter fluid, and hydrochloric acid. It looks like a brown, clear, syrupy liquid and is taken through injection.

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Krokodil is reportedly 10 times as strong as codeine (the principle euphoric ingredient) and is a cheap heroin substitute which makes it really popular among the poorest communities.

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Once it is injected, it begins eating the user's body from the inside out causing blood vessels to burst and surrounding tissue to die. It destroys body tissue opening large sores that can go all the way to the bone. It also causes the skin to turn a scaly, reptilian green around the area it is injected. The life expectancy for a krokodil addict is 2-3 years

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There are no legal uses, at least not any that I know of or have found in my research.

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DiSalvo, David. "Why Are Millions Addicted To A Drug That Eats The Flesh Off Their Bones?" Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013. Web. 18 May 2017.

Walker, Shaun. "Krokodil: The Drug That Eats Junkies." The Independent. Independent Digital News and Media, 21 June 2011. Web. 18 May 2017.

"What Is Krokodil? The Flesh-rotting Drug Comes to the U.S." The Week - All You Need to Know about Everything That Matters. N.p., 27 Sept. 2013. Web. 18 May 2017.

Pictures:
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