{"id":2435,"date":"2011-11-19T00:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T05:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2013-10-15T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T23:48:12","slug":"krokodil-avoid-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Krokodil: avoid it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us hope we don’t see this drug in the US. A new mix of chemicals has started to sweep Russia as a cheaper substitute for Heroin. It is made from various pain killers, pain thinner, and other things:<\/p>\n

The drug, whose name means ‘crocodile’ – reportedly a reference to the way it turns users’ skin scaly – also rots their brains.<\/p>\n

Krokodil is a sickening cocktail of over the counter painkillers, paint thinner, acid and phosphorus. In some cases, petrol is also added.<\/p>\n

The resulting mixture is called desomorphine – a derivative of morphine – and is extremely addictive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article says it is<\/p>\n

A deadly drug which rots the flesh of users – and kills the majority of addicts within a year of their first hit – is spreading across Europe.<\/p>\n

Krokodil originated in Russia but is now reportedly on sale in Germany – where several deaths have been blamed on its use – leading the Czech Republic’s national drug agency to warn of its dangers.<\/p>\n

Dubbed ‘the drug that eats junkies’, it rots from the inside, causing such severe damage to tissue that users suffer from gangrenous sores which open all the way to the bone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Link to the article follows.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2063224\/Curse-Krokodil-Fears-home-Heroin-thats-rotting-Russian-addicts-flesh-spreads-Europe.html<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE: 2013-10-15 Fox News says it is in the Us now.\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2013\/09\/26\/first-cases-flesh-eating-drug-krokodil-surface-in-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us hope we don’t see this drug in the US. A new mix of chemicals has started to sweep Russia as a cheaper substitute for Heroin. It is made from various pain killers, pain thinner, and other things: The drug, whose name means ‘crocodile’ – reportedly a reference to the way it turns users’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sKnr-Dh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}