Crocodile Drug, Russia's New Epidemic, Hits Youth

TIME:

The new arrivals at the drug rehab center in Chichevo, a tiny village two hours' drive east of Moscow, are usually given two weeks without chores to recover from the nausea, pain and sleeplessness of withdrawal. After that, between Bible study and prayer (the center is run by Pentecostals) they have to start chopping firewood, hauling water from the village well or otherwise helping around the old wooden house. But a lot more leeway was allowed in the case of Irina Pavlova, the only resident at the center who is addicted to krokodil, or crocodile, Russia's deadliest new designer drug.

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Comments

[Christopher Koulouris]

03:42 PM on 06/22/2011

What makes krokodi all the more appealing is its delicious ability of disfiguring you around the point of injection and leaving you looking like a bloated monkey with gangrene. Not sure how you’ll explain that one or the at the office.

But then again that’s the whole paradox of drugs- it feels so good but is so damn bad for you.

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/06/you-can-now-add-flesh-eating-cocaine-and-krokodil-opiate-to-the-basket-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-drugs/

[Blodo]

03:10 PM on 06/21/2011

"...gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous."

Oh good lord. It's a wonder there are any survivors at all from this. Simply horrible.

[masterdaddy0]

10:17 PM on 06/28/2011

You should see the photos of people who've taken it. It's truly horrific what these people do to their bodies.

[Blackorpheus]

01:48 PM on 06/21/2011

Well, what would you rather do: be fastened to the dying animal that is Russia post-millennium, or dream with croc?