Zombie Apocalypse Drug Reaches US: This Is Not a Joke

[Crow]

After looking into this a bit further, I've discovered that this drug is actually desomorphine. The reason why this drug is causing these effects is due to impurity. The cooks whip up a cheap batch without purifying (leaving corrosive by-products and other nasty shit in the mix).

[Crow]

[Burnsey]

Just finished watching a video of a doctor amputating an addict's leg with a gigli saw.

Oh man, I had to go and look.........

[Crow]

Just finished watching a video of a doctor amputating an addict's leg with a gigli saw.

These are the sort of drugs that the Drug Enforcement Administration should be focusing their resources on.

Remove cannabis from Schedule I, and put this zombie drug in its place.

[Skell18]

The pics of the exposed bones still freak me out and I have seen them a fair few times now :vom:

[Skell18]

Opium is made from the buds of the poppy rather than the seeds IIRC, all you need to do is scrape the bud and it releases a gunk, you dry that and you have in essence, pure opium, that is it in simplified form. Not being a drug barron I am not sure on the full process but thats the simple way of how you get opium and the base for heroin, from poppy.

[JJDynomite]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsUH8llvTZo

VICE.com video on the effects of Krokodil, contains mature subject material.

Nasty stuff, in my opinion.

[Frankie Reloaded]

AFAIK you cannot get any sort of high from eating the seeds. You can only mess up your stomach if you have too much because they are oily and heavy for a meal. I have eaten handfuls mixed with sugar as leftover from the Christmas dish; I only gained weight

[devilock76]

Opium is an extract from poppys. Think Wizard of Oz, "Poppies will put them to sleep". Poppy seeds can actually mess up a drug test if you eat a whole lot of them. I don't recall though if you can get "high" if you eat enough of the seeds. But it is the same realtion ship as cocaine to the leaves. Natives used to chew the leaves. Cocaine is the pure extracted form.

Ken

[lxskllr]

Are there other than opium poppies? Because poppy is commonly grown over here and the seeds are used as a food ingredient. Most households (mine included) have a special poppy grinder different to other grinders because it needs to work with extremely small seeds.

(looked up in Google not to look dumb): Actually it is Papaver somniferum, the exact plant for making opium which I have to grind before every Christmas for our special meal served at lunch before Christmas Eve. Incidentally, it´s my birthday, so the smell of poppy has been integral part of my celebration for decades

I was never clear on the difference. I figured if nothing else, poppies grown for opium may get special care of some sort to increase the quantity of psychoactive substance. Like marijuana. It's trivial to grow, but has to be cared for to maximize the desirable attributes.

[Frankie Reloaded]

Are there other than opium poppies? Because poppy is commonly grown over here and the seeds are used as a food ingredient. Most households (mine included) have a special poppy grinder different to other grinders because it needs to work with extremely small seeds.

(looked up in Google not to look dumb): Actually it is Papaver somniferum, the exact plant for making opium which I have to grind before every Christmas for our traditional meal served at lunch before Christmas Eve. Incidentally, it´s my birthday, so the smell of poppy has been integral part of my celebration for decades

[Snusdog]

Good night

one would have to have a deep loathing of self and life to even start using that...... In other words.........it seems there is more than just a desire to get high and party..........I get mushrooms and pot, and maybe even an opiate...........but who would inject rotting death into their flesh

[lxskllr]

The "war on drugs" wins again. There's no reason opium poppies can't be grown over here. Smart junkies would just smoke opium, and everyone will live happily ever after. The dumber ones can make heroin and fire it, but with a regulated plentiful supply, they can still live a long life, with few problems. There's no room for krokodil in this system. Same with all the other engineered drugs that are meant to skirt laws that prohibit safe, and natural originals, but are untested, and have disastrous side effects.

[wa3zrm]

Krokodil, a highly addictive designer drug that aggressively eats through flesh, has reportedly arrived in the United States. A Phoenix CBS affiliate 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. The drug earned its nickname—the Russian word for crocodile—because of the ghastly side effects it has on the human body. Wherever the drug is injected, the skin turns green and scaly, showing symptoms of gangrene. In severe cases, the skin rots away completely revealing the bone beneath. Other permanent effects of the drug include speech impediments and erratic movement. Rotting flesh, jerky movements, and speech troubles have prompted media outlets to tag krokodil the "zombie drug." According to Time, the average user of krokodil only lives two or three years, and "the few who manage to quit usually come away disfigured." Quitting is its own nasty business. Heroin withdrawal symptoms last about a week; symptoms for krokodil withdrawal can last over a month.
Krokodil use has skyrocketed in poor rural communities in Russia in the last few years, despite the troubling side effects. The Federal Drug Control Service in Russia told Time that in the first three months of 2011, it confiscated 65 million doses of the drug. Desomorphine didn't originate in Russia; the potent painkiller was patented in the United States in 1934. It only became a recreational drug about 10 years ago, when it surfaced in Siberia. The Independent reported in 2011 that up to 5 percent of Russian drug users have used krokodil—as many as 100,000 people. Zhenya, a former user in Russia, told the Independent that when she used to inject krokodil, she was "dreaming of heroin, of something that feels clean and not like poison. But you can't afford it, so you keep doing the krokodil. Until you die."
The main ingredients in krokodil are codeine, iodine, and red phosphorous. The latter is the stuff that's used to make the striking part on matchboxes. Sometimes paint thinner, gasoline, and hydrochloric acid are thrown into the mix. Like meth, it's fairly easy to cook up in a home kitchen. You need a stove, a pan, and about 30 minutes. The drug is then injected directly into the vein, producing a high that lasts about an hour and a half. According to the Week, each injection costs about $6 to $8, while heroin is up to $25.
Carreno of the DEA says that krokodil isn't a controlled substance yet because the agency has to have more evidence that it's a public health problem. "You don't want a federal agency going around making things illegal willy-nilly…We'd have to see more than two cases before we control it," she notes. "But people are mixing codeine and gasoline, and shooting it into their veins. What do they expect?"
In the mean time, if you want to feel disgusted and never eat lunch again, look at the graphic picture below of a krokodil user. For more gruesome images, go here.