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RUSSIANS: Explain "krokodil"

a drug that eats flesh? wtf this is out of a movie htt...
Burgundy Startled Address
  02/28/12
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the-...
Burgundy Startled Address
  02/28/12
Article basically explains it. People too poor to afford th...
spectacular geriatric keepsake machete school cafeteria
  02/28/12
wow, this is interesting from comments "To live in rus...
crimson stage
  02/28/12
So the swiss state uses its monopoly on violence to force sw...
awkward hairy legs tank
  02/28/12
might have some american officer on the take smuggling in th...
crimson stage
  02/28/12
"I don't think i "maintaining my habit" at ot...
crimson stage
  02/28/12
Like OFS YNY, breh.
Excitant Double Fault
  02/28/12
you know that literally everyone in Switzerland owns a gun, ...
Swashbuckling alcoholic locus patrolman
  03/09/12
He works a job.
Useless abnormal messiness
  03/29/12
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black hyperactive trailer park
  11/23/18
" says the young doctor, sitting in a treatment room in...
coiffed bull headed boistinker kitchen
  02/28/12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil Krokodil (Russian: ...
awkward hairy legs tank
  02/28/12
I thought of this first too but they actually mean this: ...
multi-colored buck-toothed indirect expression
  02/28/12
looks like it got that name because one of the side effects ...
sable lascivious philosopher-king doctorate
  02/28/12
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slimy pink locale mad-dog skullcap
  03/09/12
If codeine if legal, why don't they just do a bunch of codei...
Frum unholy gunner
  03/09/12
you can't just take a shitload of codeine and get heroin-lev...
Swashbuckling alcoholic locus patrolman
  03/09/12
seriously russians, explain yourselves
slimy pink locale mad-dog skullcap
  03/29/12
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Date: February 28th, 2012 9:59 PM
Author: Burgundy Startled Address

a drug that eats flesh?

wtf this is out of a movie

http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/afiles/krokodilsksjks.jpg

http://dybiz.com/sites_randomblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/russian_drug_krokodil3.jpg

http://dybiz.com/sites_randomblog/zombie-drug-krokodil-turns-people-into-zombies

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079511)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:00 PM
Author: Burgundy Startled Address

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079514)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:03 PM
Author: spectacular geriatric keepsake machete school cafeteria

Article basically explains it. People too poor to afford their heroin habit do this until they die, which apparently doesn't take long.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079536)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:16 PM
Author: crimson stage

wow, this is interesting from comments

"To live in russa must be horrible. i'm an Heroin addict since 22years and

live in switzerland.

i'm in a heroin programm for about 8years and live a nearly normal life. i

get 2times a day as much heroin as i want for free. i am free of any diseases,

work 5 day a week in an office, own a House, are married for 19years.

there where interested politicans from all over the world who visited our

institution to see how well it works. i hope some day the world will see that

the war on drugs is a war on people."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079677)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:19 PM
Author: awkward hairy legs tank

So the swiss state uses its monopoly on violence to force swiss taxpayers to bankroll this guy's party times.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079700)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:21 PM
Author: crimson stage

might have some american officer on the take smuggling in that afghan poppy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079724)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:24 PM
Author: crimson stage

"I don't think i "maintaining my habit" at other peoples expense. I pay every

year about CHF 6'200.- = 7'400 USD for the mandatory health care system and that's way more than the cost of my daily doses of medical heroin!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079769)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Excitant Double Fault

Like OFS YNY, breh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20080042)



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Date: March 9th, 2012 8:04 AM
Author: Swashbuckling alcoholic locus patrolman

you know that literally everyone in Switzerland owns a gun, and the country's defense policy is based like 90% on the country's private gun owners, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20161600)



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Date: March 29th, 2012 10:37 PM
Author: Useless abnormal messiness

He works a job.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20339016)



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Date: November 23rd, 2018 2:47 PM
Author: black hyperactive trailer park



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:39 PM
Author: coiffed bull headed boistinker kitchen

" says the young doctor, sitting in a treatment room in the scruffy clinic, below a picture of Hugh Laurie as Dr House."

Lol wtf?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079901)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:05 PM
Author: awkward hairy legs tank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil

Krokodil (Russian: "Крокодил", "crocodile") was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1922. At that time, a large number of satirical magazines existed, such as Zanoza and Prozhektor. Nearly all of them eventually disappeared.

Although political satire was dangerous during much of the Soviet period, Krokodil was given considerable license to lampoon political figures and events. Typical and safe topics for lampooning in the Soviet era were the lack of initiative and imagination promoted by the style of an average Soviet middle-bureaucrat, and the problems produced by drinking on the job by Soviet workers. Krokodil also ridiculed capitalist countries and attacked various political, ethnic and religious groups that allegedly opposed the Soviet system. For example, at the time of the Doctors' plot it published a number of anti-semitic articles and cartoons.

Many notable persons contributed to the magazine, including Vladimir Mayakovsky, Kukriniksy, and Yuliy Ganf.

Similar magazines existed in all the Union republics, and in several ASSRs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20079556)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 11:11 PM
Author: multi-colored buck-toothed indirect expression

I thought of this first too but they actually mean this:

Desomorphine attracted attention in 2010 in Russia due to an increase in clandestine production, presumably due to its relatively simple synthesis from codeine. The drug is easily made from codeine, iodine and red phosphorus,[8] in a process similar to the manufacture of methamphetamine from pseudoephedrine, but desomorphine made this way is highly impure and contaminated with various toxic and corrosive byproducts. The street name in Russia for home-made desomorphine made in this way is "krokodil" (крокодил, crocodile), reportedly due to the scale-like appearance of skin of its users, and it is used as a cheaper alternative to heroin, as codeine tablets are available without a prescription.[9] 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.[10][11][12]

Abuse of home-made desomorphine was first reported in Middle and eastern Siberia in 2002, but has since spread throughout Russia and the neighboring former Soviet republics. In October 2011, indications of "krokodil" use were found in Germany, with some media outlets claiming several dead users.[13]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20080335)



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Date: February 28th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: sable lascivious philosopher-king doctorate

looks like it got that name because one of the side effects is that your skin becomes covered in scales

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20080020)



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Date: March 9th, 2012 7:56 AM
Author: slimy pink locale mad-dog skullcap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20161591)



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Date: March 9th, 2012 8:38 AM
Author: Frum unholy gunner

If codeine if legal, why don't they just do a bunch of codeine?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20161629)



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Date: March 9th, 2012 8:39 AM
Author: Swashbuckling alcoholic locus patrolman

you can't just take a shitload of codeine and get heroin-level effects. the amount of codeine that would theoretically produce those effects, actually just kills you in practice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20161631)



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Date: March 29th, 2012 10:36 PM
Author: slimy pink locale mad-dog skullcap

seriously russians, explain yourselves

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1886196&forum_id=2#20339007)



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Date: March 29th, 2012 10:47 PM
Author: Burgundy Startled Address



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Date: June 17th, 2018 9:19 PM
Author: magenta church



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