A COMPILATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT UNTIL TODAY IS KNOWN ABOUT THE USE, CONSUMPTION AND EFFECTS OF THIS TERRIBLE DRUG THAT HAS BEGUN TO APPEAR IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Name: it comes from the word in English crocodile, in allusion to its effects that do or eat the skin. It is also known as the zombie drug, desomorphine (its more formal name), drug Cannibal and the heroine of the poor.
Background: the desomorphine had already been developed as a painkiller in the U.S. in 1930, called dihidrodesoximorfina; but in 1932 he disappeared from the market by its highly addictive properties.
Origin: it is said that it began to be consumed by a shortage of heroin in Russia, product of a decline in the harvest of opium poppies in Afghanistan. Its use began in towns of Russia and spread to countries such as Georgia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan exsovieticos. It should be noted that Soviet countries maintained a long tradition in injection of substances derived from opium before of the fall of the wall.Cost: It costs between three and five times less than the heroine. Its estimated price is less than a dollar when their preparation is home.
Components: it contains codeine; an alkaloid that is found naturally in opium, and also in some cough syrups. This substance is mixed with toxic chemicals such as alcohol, industrial oil or the thinner.
Level of addiction: is the drug with the highest level of addiction until now registered: with a few doses, the user becomes dependent, and in just two months, begins to record losses of skin and flesh, and severe infections.
Preparation: can be prepared in less than an hour from the codeine, which is cooked with industrial chemical solvents, toxic and highly visible, such as paint, petrol, hydrochloric acid, iodine and phosphorus of the scraper of boxes of matches.
Effects on the body: its sensory effects are very similar to the of heroin, which spreads approximately for 40 minutes.
Damage: thrombosis and bleeding, ulcers on the skin, phlebitis, gangrene and skin infections that reach even the bones, loss of members such as fingers, arms and legs; detachment of the skin in areas of dead tissue, ulceration of the veins which causes they are removed even with the muscle and tissue. The most addicted users die in less than a year.
Systemic damage: pneumonia, septicemia, bursting of arteries, meningitis, tooth loss, infection of the bones, body and bursting of ears, nose and lips, renal and hepatic failure.Users in the world: there are consumers in at least 50 cities in the region of Europe and Asia, primarily in Russia and Ukraine. It is believed that Russia could have up to one million users.
Presence in the world: some cases of attention to this substance addicted patients in hospitals in the United States and Mexico have been reported since December 2013.
Detoxification: it is the most painful; While "cleaning" of heroin from the body lasts approximately ten days, of the krokodil entails more than one month of a particularly painful process.
Trivia: according to the DEA (Administration for the Control of drugs in the United States), have not found physical evidence of this drug, for what until recently in the United States was considered an urban legend
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