Oh dear fuck. I hate myself for even finding out about this.

[East Coast Hustle]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the-drug-that-eats-junkies-2300787.html

Whatever you do, DO FUCKING NOT google image it. I'm pretty sure this is the single worst thing I have ever seen that's actually real.

[Phox]

Whatever you do, DO FUCKING NOT google image it. I'm pretty sure this is the single worst thing I have ever seen that's actually real.

Stopped reading about halfway through. Literally making me sick to my stomach. 

[Elder Iptuous]

Huh.
i can't tell on some of the google image search, which images are purportedly from the drug, and which are from actual crocodile attacks...

[East Coast Hustle]

I would have turned this into a submission for the horrormirth contest, but I couldn't find any mirth in it anywhere.

[Phox]

I would have turned this into a submission for the horrormirth contest, but I couldn't find any mirth in it anywhere.

Me either. Drugs ain't funny.

[East Coast Hustle]

The "best" part is how the pharma companies know exactly what the majority of the pills needed to make it are being used for and are using all of their influence to resist any attempts to regulate teh sale of the pills or make them prescription-only becausethe profit margins are so high and, after all, it's just poor people getting addicted and literally rotting to death.

[East Coast Hustle]

I would have turned this into a submission for the horrormirth contest, but I couldn't find any mirth in it anywhere.

Me either. Drugs ain't funny.

The fuck they aren't. They're one of the funniest things going, in several senses of the word.

But this is fucking evil in a syringe.

[Cainad (dec.)]

 

[Elder Iptuous]

Jesus....
from the wiki:

The drug is easily made from codeine, iodine and red phosphorus,[10] in a similar process to the manufacture of methamphetamine from pseudoephedrine, but desomorphine made this way is highly impure and contaminated with various toxic and corrosive byproducts. Since this mix is routinely injected immediately with little or no further purification, "Krokodil" has become notorious for producing severe tissue damage, phlebitis and gangrene, sometimes requiring limb amputation, in long-term users. The amount of tissue damage is so high that addicts' life expectancies are said to be as low as two to three years.[11][12]

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Fucking hell....

[Phox]

I would have turned this into a submission for the horrormirth contest, but I couldn't find any mirth in it anywhere.

Me either. Drugs ain't funny.

The fuck they aren't. They're one of the funniest things going, in several senses of the word.

Well, hmm. I think I can get where you are coming from, and thinking it over, I agree to a certain extent. But I don't think shit like this is funny.

But this is fucking evil in a syringe.

Yeah, this is just fucking sickening.

[I_Kicked_Kennedy]

I dunno, something seems fishy about this whole deal. It seems like a lot of Reefer Madness style stuff.

It's supposedly spreading like wildfire, but why can I only find a handful of articles and the same four photos, both in English and searching using Russian characters?

There's someone looking to cash in, I'm betting.

Oh, lastly, why hasn't this caught on in other countries? It's not like there are other places lacking in junkies with no cash and only OTC drugs to f-with.

[Elder Iptuous]

I dunno, something seems fishy about this whole deal. It seems like a lot of Reefer Madness style stuff.

It's supposedly spreading like wildfire, but why can I only find a handful of articles and the same four photos, both in English and searching using Russian characters?

There's someone looking to cash in, I'm betting.

Oh, lastly, why hasn't this caught on in other countries? It's not like there are other places lacking in junkies with no cash and only OTC drugs to f-with.

wiki page says this stuff has been around since 1932.
i would assume it hasn't caught on since crappy drug is crappy....
i had the same reaction as you, but...

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

There are some very disturbing videos about treating people who are addicted to this stuff. Christ. I can't imagine 1.) doing that to myself 2.) being awake while my exposed bones are being swabbed.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow, a highly addictive inexpensive drug that's even worse than meth.

GREAT.