Russia's Addiction of Desomorphine

• Like Russia, USA also has a drug problem.
• Marijuana is a huge epidemic in the USA.
• Like Desomorphine, Marijuana is more used because it is cheap and easy to get.

• Desomorphine has not yet reached the USA.
• Scientist believe it will rapidly spread it the US.

• Studies report in US that approximately 1.5 out of 100,000 teenagers die from drug use
• In Russia studies show approximately 2 per 100,000 teeangers die from drug use

Help In Coutries

• Both Russia and USA have done rehabilitation facilities for addicts.

• The drug can easily be done at home.
• Desomorphine ingredients can easily be bought at local stores or pharmacies.

Ingredients

• codeine
• iodine
• gasoline
• paint thinner
• hydrochloric acid
• lighter fluid
• red phosphorus

• 90% or more addicts use heroin in Russia. 1/2 of the addicts go to Desomorphine

• Prevention organizations, like VICE, are alerting the young crowd og how dangerous drugs are.

• Desomorphine is highly addictive
• If injected wrong the drug acts like a poison to the skin
• It makes the skin rotten from the inside out

• Desomorphine is the tenth price of heroin

• With organizations warning the young crowd teens are more likely not to try drugs for the fear of the outcome.

History

• First made in the United States
• Made in year 1993
• Scientists were tring to make a light version of morphine

Sasha

Will this drug epidemic stop one day?

It will because:

• Teens are being awared of drugs
• Rehabilitation centers are helping cure addicts
• Law Enforcement is working to stop the spread of drugs

• Hasn't been an addict for long
• Creates Desomorphine in a kitchen in beat up flats
• Has rotting sores in his back for injecting the drug wrong
• Has the life expectancy of 5 years or less

Irina Pavola

• One organization can create a drug police like the Gang police in California
• Parents need to educate their children about drugs
• Drug dealers should b taken off the streets by the drug police or fined

Works Cited

• First a heroin addict
• Began using krokodil in her teenage years
• Would shoot up the drug almost every day for six years
• The drug has given her brain damage affecting her motor skills

• "Irina Pavlova, a recovering krokodil addict, at the Chichevo rehab center in Russia, rocking Artiom Tiomkin — the baby of another resident — on June 13, 2011"

• Blanchard, Vanessa. "Russia Heroin Epidemic Leads to Terrifying New Drug That Rots the User [Graphic Images]." Newsgroup. Las Vegas Guardian Express. Las Vegas Guardian Express, 1 Sept. 2013. Web. 11 Sept. 2013.
• Bolchakova, Ksenia, and Xavier Luizet. "Dangerous 'krokodil' Seducing Russian Drug Addicts." FRANCE 24. FRANCE24, 3 Feb. 2012. Web. 4 Sept. 2013.

Works Cited

• Lisitsyn, Pavel. "Desomorphine. Reference." Newsgroup. RIA Novosti. RIA Novosti, 6 Mar. 2010. Web. 4 Sept. 2013.
• Shuster, Simon. "World." TIME.com. TimeWorld, 20 June 2011. Web. 5 Sept. 2013.
• Walker, Shaun. "KROKODIL: THE DRUG THAT EATS JUNKIES." Newsgroup. The Independent. Independent Digital News and Media, 22 June 2011. Web. 5 Sept. 2013

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October 9, 2013

Russia's Desomorphine Addiction

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