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Desomorphine-dehydrodexomorphine –Krokodil Flesh-eating “Zombie” drug
Effects and Side Effects
- The high associated with krokodil is akin to that of heroin, but last shorter period heroin (4 to 8 hrs) krokodil (last 1 1/2 hrs) with the symptoms of withdrawal setting is soon after.
- During the binge, a user can show irrational behavior and experience sleep deprivation and exhaustion, memory loss and speech problems.
- Phlebitis (serious damage to the veins)
- Severe tissue damage
- Gangrene (necrosis)
- Soft tissue infections
- Black or green scaly skin
- Literally kill person inside out
- Detoxification
- Treat the infections antibacterial antibiotics
- Amputation of the affected limbs
Desomorphine
Can be easily cooked up in someone’s home
• painkiller codeine (OTC)
• iodine; strong alkalines such as Mr. Muscle, a kitchen and bathroom cleaner
• hydrochloric acid
• red phosphorus from matches
• organic solvents such as gasoline or paint thinner
• a derivative from morphine (an opioid) with powerful, fast acting sedative and analgesic effects
• around 8-10 more potent than morphine
• Patented in 1932, used in Switzerland under the brand name Permonid
• described as having a fast onset and short duration of action
• with relatively little nausea or respiratory depression compared to equivalent dose of morphine
• extremely addictive injectable opioid
• An estimated 100,000 in Russia and around 20,000 people in Ukraine are estimated to have injected the drug in 2011, according to a study that ran in the International Journal of Drug Policy this year. Experts theorize the drug first spread across Russia and Ukraine when heroin became less available.
• first discovery of use of the drug in the United States was reported by the Banner Poison Control Center in Phoenix, Arizona, in September 2013.[23][24] In October 2013, numerous cases of krokodil-related hospitalizations were reported in Joliet, Illinois
- Casy, Alan F.; Parfitt, Robert T. (1986). Opioid analgesics: chemistry and receptors . New York: Plenum Press. p. 32.
- http://www.oasas.ny.gov/AdMed/FYI/Krokodil.cfm
- US patent 1980972, Lyndon Frederick Small, "Morphine Derivative and Processes", published 1934-19-07, issued 1934-13-11
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine
Thank you! -Claire Diamat