A horrifying drug currently used in Russia may have come to Arizona. (Follow link for more information.) Krokodil Coming?
The
drug reportedly eats away the flesh from inside out and forms a green scale on
the body, hence the name “krokodil.” Some of the photos on the internet are only
for those with strong stomachs, pictures of limbs with the flesh eaten to the
bone.
When
I first read of this drug last week – 10 times stronger than heroin
– and saw the devastating damage it does to users - I had a fleeting thought of “how could anyone put this substance in their body?”
And
the answer of course is that we addicts have a history of using most anything
in the quest to get high. Over the
course of my life new illegal drugs have come on the market with regularity. And there's never a shortage of volunteers willing to try it.
Few,
if any, were produced by laboratory standards. The only standard seemed to
be “is it addictive enough and powerful enough to sell?
Hopefully
the extensive publicity about this drug will warn most potential users away.
But the lessons of the past are that if it’ll create a high someone will use it
– regardless of the consequences.
