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Warning graphic content: Deadly drug that rots flesh of users arrives in Arizona
Source: New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/warning-graphic-drug-rots-flesh-arrives-arizona-article-1.1468058
Known as Krokodil, the drug not only kills most users within a year of their first hit, it eats away at their skin and opens giant sores down to the bone.
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Results are disturbing.
Good golly!
I could barely look at the screen, it was disturbing. I wonder why people choose to use a drug that has such heavy consequences.. 
There are lots of ways to get high, including legal ones.
So, it appears you want to kill yourself.
But all I can really think of how a person is reduced to the state of being in which they do this to themselves.
I've known people who are chain smoking, which is lighting one cigarette from the fire of the one just consumed. But it's a slow death, like many others.
The reaction that occurs seems disconnected from the here and now, with no context, no sense of time or any other factor.
I can only imagine that the state of mind of a human being that would take this drug, is one that has simply unable to enjoy life at all.
And death doesn't matter to them, as they have no future or past, only the now taking the drug. All that matters is whatever they seek with the drug.
Which they never find, because it is not what they are really searching for, so they must keep going.
Although their brain tells them they are escaping. It's illusion, a trick, and their lives go up in smoke.
The human race has deep wounds that may not be able to heal. A depressing thought, indeed.
We seem to be in a state of mindlessness, some of us, and it is not nirvana. At least not in my opinion, when there are so many good things to enjoy, if one feels free to choose them.
"Seemed like a good idea at the time."
Desomorphine
Desomorphine (dihydrodesoxymorphine, Permonid) is an opioid first patented in 1932 in the United States that is a derivative of morphine, where the 6-hydroxyl group has been removed and the 7,8 double bond has been reduced. It has sedative and analgesic effects, and is around 8-10 times more potent than morphine. It was used[clarification needed] in Switzerland under the brand name Permonid, and was described as having a fast onset and a short duration of action, with relatively little nausea or respiratory depression compared to equivalent doses of morphine. The traditional synthesis of desomorphine starts from α-chlorocodide, which is itself obtained by reacting thionyl chloride with codeine. By catalytic reduction, α-chlorocodide gives dihydrodesoxycodeine, which yields desomorphine on demethylation.
"Krokodil"
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; like methamphetamine, desomorphine made this way is often highly impure and is contaminated with various toxic and corrosive byproducts. The street name in Russia for home-made desomorphine is "krokodil" (крокодил, crocodile), reportedly due to the scale-like appearance of skin of its users and the derivation from chlorocodide. Due to difficulties in procuring heroin, combined with easy and cheap access to over-the-counter pharmacy products containing codeine in Russia, use of "krokodil" has been on the increase. The high associated with krokodil is akin to that of heroin, but lasts a much shorter period. While the effects of heroin use can last four to eight hours, the effects of krokodil do not usually extend past one and a half hours, with the symptoms of withdrawal setting in soon after. Krokodil takes roughly 30 minutes to an hour to prepare with over-the-counter ingredients in a kitchen. Since the home-made 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, especially as they are often highly susceptible to infections and gangrene due to widespread HIV infection among injecting drug users in Russia.
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Systematic (IUPAC) name
4,5-α-Epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3-ol
Legal status: Prohibited (S9) (AU) Schedule I (US)
Dependence liability: Very High
Identifiers:
CAS number: 427-00-9
ATC code: None
PubChem CID: 5362456
ChemSpider: 4515044 Yes
UNII 7OP86J5E33 Yes
Synonyms Desomorphine, Dihydrodesoxymorphine, Permonid
Chemical data -
Formula: C17H21NO2
Mol. mass: 271.354 g/mol
Desomorphine (dihydrodesoxymorphine, Permonid) is an opioid first patented in 1932 in the United States that is a derivative of morphine, where the 6-hydroxyl group has been removed and the 7,8 double bond has been reduced. It has sedative and analgesic effects, and is around 8-10 times more potent than morphine. It was used[clarification needed] in Switzerland under the brand name Permonid, and was described as having a fast onset and a short duration of action, with relatively little nausea or respiratory depression compared to equivalent doses of morphine. The traditional synthesis of desomorphine starts from α-chlorocodide, which is itself obtained by reacting thionyl chloride with codeine. By catalytic reduction, α-chlorocodide gives dihydrodesoxycodeine, which yields desomorphine on demethylation.
"Krokodil"
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; like methamphetamine, desomorphine made this way is often highly impure and is contaminated with various toxic and corrosive byproducts. The street name in Russia for home-made desomorphine is "krokodil" (крокодил, crocodile), reportedly due to the scale-like appearance of skin of its users and the derivation from chlorocodide. Due to difficulties in procuring heroin, combined with easy and cheap access to over-the-counter pharmacy products containing codeine in Russia, use of "krokodil" has been on the increase. The high associated with krokodil is akin to that of heroin, but lasts a much shorter period. While the effects of heroin use can last four to eight hours, the effects of krokodil do not usually extend past one and a half hours, with the symptoms of withdrawal setting in soon after. Krokodil takes roughly 30 minutes to an hour to prepare with over-the-counter ingredients in a kitchen. Since the home-made 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, especially as they are often highly susceptible to infections and gangrene due to widespread HIV infection among injecting drug users in Russia.
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.... night of the living dead-Thriller-zombie shit. 
