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Opioids are drugs that relieve pain. There are different When used as prescribed, they can be very effective at treating pain that’s not relieved by other pain medications, such as acetaminophen. Opioids work by attaching to opioid receptors in the brain and preventing pain signals. They also boost feelings of pleasure, which is why they’re The misuse of opioids has reached epidemic proportions. Every day, 130 people die from an opioid overdose in the United States, according to the Desomorphine is an injectable derivative of morphine. You may have heard of it by its street name “krokodil.” It’s often referred to as a cheaper substitute for heroin. Its street name comes from one of its many toxic side effects. People who use krokodil develop scaly, black and green skin that resembles crocodile skin. Krokodil is the Russian spelling for crocodile. It goes by a few different names and spellings, including: • krocodil • krok • croc • alligator drug It was first introduced in Russia in the early 2000s. It’s made by synthesizing desomorphine from codeine and mixing it with other additives, such as: • hydrochloric acid • paint thinner • iodine • gasoline • lighter fluid • red phosphorus (matchbook striking surfaces) These dangerous additives are likely the cause of its notorious side effects. Russia and the Ukraine seem to be most affected by the drug, but there have been The use of desomorphine was first reported in 1935 as a treatment for pain caused by trauma. The drug was fo...

Early this spring, when the snow began to melt in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, the photographer Emanuele Satolli went knocking on apartment doors in the Uralmash district, a grimy neighborhood in the north of the city. He knew many of its hallways by heart. This was the place he’d gone in 2013 to Krokodil, a cheap substitute for heroin, was one of the deadliest designer drugs ever to sweep through Russia. Appearing on the black market in the early 2000s, it wound up ensnaring hundreds of thousands of addicts across the country, and it spread especially fast in poor, industrial areas like Uralmash. Its appeal was simple: addicts could easily learn to cook it in their kitchens using ingredients purchased at local pharmacies and hardware stores, among them hydrochloric acid, paint thinner and red phosphorous, which they scraped from the sides of match boxes. For a fraction of the price of heroin, the drug produced a similar high and was just as addictive. But the damage it caused was far more gruesome and often irreversible. The addict’s flesh at the injection site would often rot away, while the tissues of the brain and other vital organs were severely eroded. “So my expectation was to find that some of them had died,” Satolli says of his trip to find the addicts in Yekaterinburg this year. “But not so many.” Read more: Of the ten krokodil users Satolli had photographed in 2013, ranging in age from 30 to 43 at that time, three of them were dead by the time he came back...

Krokodil and the flesh-rotting horror of the drug that EATS junkies: Stomach-churning pictures of heroin addicts who resort to lethal backstreet concoction of painkillers and lighter fluid that is on the rise in Britain • The number of people in the UK suffering with Krokodil addiction is on the rise • The drug is more powerful than heroin and easily accessible to desperate users • After injecting users blood vessels can burst and their skin can turn green • Other side effects are thrombosis, gangrene, abscesses and crocodile-like skin • The drug, which is widely used in Russia and Ukraine, has crossed overseas and was reported in two states in the US in 2013 By Published: 21:12 BST, 28 December 2018 | Updated: 14:39 BST, 29 December 2018 Horrifying images show the effects of a highly dangerous flesh-eating substance known as Krokodil, which is set to infiltrate the streets of Britain as desperate addicts can purchase it for a tenth of the price of heroin. The number of people in the UK suffering with Krokodil addiction is already on the rise, leaving them with rotting flesh and pus-filled wounds. The drug is widely used in Russia and Ukraine and has crossed overseas, cropping up in Illinois and Arizona in the US back in 2013. Krokodil, which is more powerful than heroin, is easily accessible and can be made for just a few pounds from a mixture of supermarket products including painkillers and lighter fluid. Horrifying pictures show the effects of a highly dangerous flesh-...

23 Krokodil gets its name because it causes the skin to users to turn dark and scaly Credit: Emanuele Satolli Krokodil – a cheap heroin substitute – spread like wildfire through Russia and reached its deadly peak in 2013. Russian for crocodile, it got its name not because of the efficiency with which it killed but because of its agonising effects. The drug turns a user's skin green and scaly around the area where they inject it as blood vessels burst and the skin rots away. Sergey Agalakov, narcotics expert and psychologist, said at the time: "A person becomes a zombie with their body rotting, the rancid smell of which is detected a few steps away." The active ingredient is codeine, which addicts cook up with paint thinner, hydrochloric acid and red phosphorous scraped from the striking pads of matchboxes. The resulting caramel-coloured toxic gunge is then injected into their veins – with hideous results. The use of the poison, whose medical name is desomorphine, exploded in Russia because it can be up to ten times cheaper than heroin and can be made using over-the-counter painkillers. 23 Pavel, the only one to survive without life-changing health problems, reveals his scars from taking the drug. He quit after nearly dying for a third time Credit: Emanuele Satolli Emanuele was able to gain the trust of addicts to capture shocking images showing what life was like inside a Krokodil drug den. His photos of addicts injecting and the terrible scars and rotting flesh they were ...