Flesh eating zombie drug!

[Sunshine]

Krokodil: Flesh-eating 'zombie' drug may be in U.S. - CNN.com

(CNN) -- A flesh-eating drug that turns people into zombie-like creatures seems to have made its way to the United States.

This extremely addictive injectable opioid is called krokodil (pronounced like crocodile) or desomorphine. It's so named in part because users report black or green scaly skin as a side effect.

This weekend five people were hospitalized in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, Illinois, with symptoms similar to cases reported recently by health care providers in Arizona and Oklahoma.

Dr. Abhin Singla said he suspects a woman he treated this weekend was suffering from krokodil addiction. Singla is an internist and addiction specialist at Joliet's Presence St. Joseph Medical Center. The patient lost significant portions of her legs, he said.


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"It's a zombie drug -- it literally kills you from the inside out," Singla said. "If you want way to die, this is a way to die."

 

[High_Gravity]

Sweet Jesus!

 

[strollingbones]

honey hush jesus aint got nothing to do with this...i would say this one came in on satans coat tails....

 

[strollingbones]

they keep slapping this designer drugs crap on the market as fast as they can...as soon as the law dogs get one outlawed a new one pops right up....this could be a totally legal drug....most designer drugs are....legal ..but that does not keep them from having hellish side effects...meth messes up the skin...and uses the match heads....

i feel for the er staffs that will have to deal with this

 

[High_Gravity]

We keep asking for Zombies we will get them.

 

[strollingbones]

zombies? i was asking for ludes

 

[High_Gravity]

lol

 

[Vox]

except the morphine derivative in question has nothing to do with the complications of IMPURE injection use of it.

Desomorphine has been known since 1932.

The way is being synthesized in Russia by ordinary folks for self-use and unclean needles/syringes and general lack of basic hygiene in the addicts are the causes of "flesh eating" not the drug itself.

 

[Vox]

Desomorphine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Desomorphine (dihydrodesoxymorphine, Permonid, street name krokodil) is a derivative from morphine (an opioid) with powerful, fast-acting sedative and analgesic effects.[1][2][3][4] Patented in 1932,[5] it is around 8-10 times more potent than morphine. It was used in Switzerland under the brand name Permonid[6] and was described as having a fast onset and a short duration of action, with relatively little nausea or respiratory depression compared to equivalent doses of morphine.

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_chem_info/desomorphine.pdf

Clinical studies in humans have demonstrated that
desomorphine appeared to be an adequate substitute for
morphine in symptomatic treatment. Desomorphine
produces relatively brief but powerful narcotic and
analgesic effects. It also has a relatively powerful
respiratory depressant effect to which tolerance does not
develop. Repeated administration of desomorphine at
short intervals in patients with severe cancer pain
indicated that desomorphine produced a high degree of
addiction liability.

 

[Noomi]

If you take this drug you deserve whatever side effects come of it.