Krokidil - Makes Heroin look like dora the explorer



It's absolutely awful, but if someone is bent on killing themselves, it's nearly impossible to fix the problem by making a few laws.

Alcohol was illegal in the US , yet people still made it and consumed it during the prohibition. Unless you start to deal with the underlying reasons of drug use , then you're just trying to convince yourself you're trying but in actuality not doing anything.
 
Why are these doctors not amputating those limbs with exposed bones? Are they letting these people rot away just so they can make it into a documentary? I realize it's Russia and doctors over there probably do shit differently, but what the hell. Sure these people are morons for doing this to themselves, but try to fix them up for fuk's sake.

You can only do so much with limited resources. Want to take care of sick kids, or homeless drug addicts?
 
wtf...who came up with that shit...write some poetry or something dont make crazy drugs..lol

This sounds like a mindless comment but there is actually a good story hiding in it somewhere...

No one USING the shit would have the brains to figure out the high-inducing part of Heroine and chemically duplicate it with household goods. That goes for the drug dealers too, even their mixing lab folks, who likely didn't pass top of their class at Oxford. (And what incentive would they have to make such a cheap, no-profit drug that these fools can make themselves out of household goods???)

-I doubt even McGyver could pull that trick off. You gotta haz real smartz.

If a respectable scientists were to run across this formula, then would he/she distribute it to the poor heroin addicts? Hell no. So who does this leave?

Only a person who is intent on KILLING the masses of Heroine addicts. A real dark player, either someone who's got the cash to hire the best chemists, or someone who is an awesome chemist but somehow has something against heroine addicts.
 
Silk road anyone? You aint a man if you dont shoot this shit up. Go big or go home
 
If we have a real economic crash in the U.S. we'll be doing the same shit here.

Our bitches will be the first to go - they always are. They'll start marrying guys in rich foreign countries (possibly China this time) and leaving en mass - because that's what bitches do. The women who are left in the country will turn to prostitution almost immediately.

And in the ensuing chaos a few men realize that they can get rich through various crimes - and with riches come the bitches! So crime lords rise up and fuck up the landscape even further.

In that world Krokodil would look pretty good.
 
If we have a real economic crash in the U.S. we'll be doing the same shit here.

Our bitches will be the first to go - they always are. They'll start marrying guys in rich foreign countries (possibly China this time) and leaving en mass - because that's what bitches do. The women who are left in the country will turn to prostitution almost immediately.

And in the ensuing chaos a few men realize that they can get rich through various crimes - and with riches come the bitches! So crime lords rise up and fuck up the landscape even further.

In that world Krokodil would look pretty good.
Absolutely spot on assessment. Thats pretty much what happened in the USSR and with the economic road were on it could be here in less than 10 years very realistic
 
Anyone notice the factual error in the story?

Russia has more heroin users than any other country in the world – up to two million, according to unofficial estimates.
Ok, so there are 2 million people taking heroin.

He estimates that overall, around 5 per cent of Russian drug users are on krokodil and other home-made drugs, which works out at about 100,000 people.
5% of all Russian drug users are on krokodil and home made drugs, and that makes 100,000? But then that means there must be 2 million drug users in Russia, and I thought it said earlier that there were 2 million heroin users? The figures only work if every single drug user in Russia also injects heroin....
 
It's officially the drug I want to overdose with when I die ... it must be an epic buzz to make people do it knowing the consequences. I'll just do way too much, way too fast so it won't eat me alive.

And for those of you who think I'm fucking with you ... I'm dead serious, I can't think of a better way to die.

Timothy Leary was supposed to go out in similar fashion...

"Leary authored an outline for a book called Design for Dying, which attempted to show people a new perspective of death and dying. Leary's entourage (as mentioned above)—updated his website on a daily basis as a sort of proto-blog, noting his daily intake of various illicit and legal chemical substances, with a predilection for nitrous oxide, cigarettes, his trademark "Leary Biscuits" (a snack cracker with cheese and a small marijuana bud, briefly microwaved), and eventually heroin and morphine. His sterile house was completely redecorated by the staff, who had more or less moved in, with an array of surreal ornamentation. In his final months, thousands of visitors, well wishers and old friends visited him in his California home. Until the final weeks of his illness, Leary gave many interviews discussing his new philosophy of embracing death."

It was my understanding that he had planned to take a massive parting shot of ecstasy, heroin, lsd, etc. and go out in a blaze of glory. Not sure if that ever happened but sounds good to me.
 
Absolutely spot on assessment. Thats pretty much what happened in the USSR and with the economic road were on it could be here in less than 10 years very realistic

L0L CAKEZ.

Hey, do you mind pointing out a country that isn't in or near an economic crisis right now? Almost all countries are.

Look over to Europe Bro. The Euro is teetering on the edge of collapse

And China? They're no picture perfect economy either. They have gross miss allocation of resources, massive corruption, and an economy that's overheating (a.k.a boutta take a downturn).

Nobody is doing great right now.

We're internet marketers, we are on the front lines of globalization. It's incredibly apparent that the world is very intertwined. Countries don't suffer on their own when shit gets bad, the entire world economy starts to hurt.

Sure, the U.S. government may be heading towards a shithole. But the U.S. people are doing quite well. No, we aren't perfect. And yes, we have some incredibly lazy people. But we also have some bright minds and hard workers.

And the same goes for any other country. I'm a proud citizen of the U.S., but i'm also a proud citizen of the World. I think 50 years from now we're going to be laughing at ourselves for being so paranoid about this doomsday apocalypse.

It's time to get off this doomsday, everything's going to turn into Fallout (except you don't respawn) scenario.

And in the .0000001% i'm wrong? WE are all so fucked anyways that it doesn't matter how much bullshit you stockpile up. Most of us will die and life will be shit for the survivors.

We got some great opportunities because of the Internet. Let's lead humanity to greatness instead of spending all day paranoid about the worst that could happen.
 
Anyone notice the factual error in the story?

Ok, so there are 2 million people taking heroin.

5% of all Russian drug users are on krokodil and home made drugs, and that makes 100,000? But then that means there must be 2 million drug users in Russia, and I thought it said earlier that there were 2 million heroin users? The figures only work if every single drug user in Russia also injects heroin....

UP TO 2 million heroin users...according to unofficial ESTIMATES.
 
So a drug that eats the drug users alive... So in a few years the problem will solve its self right? Just sayin.

Side note: This how many zombie movies start, just add the speical zombie ingreident to the krokidil and wham zombie apocalypse.
 
Absolutely spot on assessment. Thats pretty much what happened in the USSR and with the economic road were on it could be here in less than 10 years very realistic

I would agree, except heroin is much cheaper here than in Russia if you go by the numbers in that article. Also, codeine is RX only, so a bit more difficult to get. And while it is relatively easy to get codeine in Mexico, it wouldn't make much sense for Mexican Mob to start mass producing this shit over producing their own heroin.

Seems like it's the opposite in US, lots of people that get hooked on Oxycontin switch to heroin because it's actually cheaper.
 
H dealers would have to lower their prices so their client base doesn't die off using that other shit. Talk about a loss in revenue.