Kids These Days 29

Remember when all you had to worry about was your kids getting high or worse stealing the pills that you thought you hid well? Now you have to worry about them using a drug called Krokodil. I first heard about this drug on a special and it was being used in Russia. Its one of those drugs where if you saw someone who used it regularly you'd ask yourself “Who in the fuck would ever do that?!” Well, the drug that is also known as the poor man's heroin is now in the US. A 17 year old girl from Houston, Texas was visiting relatives in Mexico when she went to a clinic because she was having “digestive problems.” I translate that into peeing out your ass.

Puerto Vallarta is making sure to point out that she didn't get the drug in Mexico, but brought the issue with her from the States. They don't know how she is doing because she never came back for a follow up because she's probably curled up in a ball watching her body parts fall off. That is a actual thing that happens when you use this shit. That is not an exaggeration. I have not included any pictures of the hundreds of people this has happened to. If you wanna Google that shit then by all means have fun. But you have been warned.

Krokodil (or as most of us call it “crocodile”) is described as “...the high associated with krokodil is akin to that of heroin, but lasts for a much shorter period. While the effects of heroin use can last four to eight hours, the effects of krokodil do not usually extend past one and a half hours, with the symptoms of withdrawal setting in soon after. Krokodil has become notorious for producing severe tissue damage phlebitis and gangrene, sometimes requiring limb amputation in long-term users.”

Doesn't that sound fun?! You mean to tell me that I can get the high of heroin but for a shorter amount of time and possibly, meaning likely, to have a limb just rot and fall right the hell off? This sounds like the most fun drug ever. I wonder how its made.

“The drug is easily made from codeine which can be derived from cough syrup, iodine from OTC medications and red phosphorus from match strikers, in a process similar to the manufacture of methamphetamine from pseudo-ephedrine. Like methamphetamine, desomorphine made this way is often highly impure and is contaminated with various toxic and corrosive byproducts. Various other common products like gasoline may be substituted as part of the production.”

You had me at “methamphetamine. So all's I need is some cough syrup, iodine, match heads, and some gasoline and I too can look like an extra from The Walking Dead? I seriously don't know how anyone could know what this drug is and think that it is a good idea to try even once. On the Vice special I watched about this one of the Russian teens said he got into it because he was bored and there was nothing to do in town. You know what I do when I have nothing to do?

Read.

If I had a kid and found out that this is what they were into I would just shove them into traffic because I have obviously failed as a parent. No one's life is so boring or hard that the alternative to getting your shit together is doing a drug that will make parts of yourself fall off from your body at worst and harden your veins at best. Get a hobby, you freaks.

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