Krokodil is one of the worst drugs ever invented. It was invented in Russia.

Once you tried krokodil, you have put one leg into grave. And your death is going to be ugly and painful.

Krokodil drug user

Girl addicted to krokodil

The text below is translated from the blog post of Yevgenij Roizman – founder of the Fund “City without Drugs”. It was written before Russia finally banned over-the-counter sales of drugs containing codeine.

Krokodil – Russian national drug

Half of the quarantine patients are rotting. It’s summer and the stench is unbearable.

- What did you inject?
- Krokodil.

Half of them are like that. All are young.

“Krokodil” (desomorphine) is a terrible drug. And fast. It’s almost impossible to give it up. There is simply no time. Irreversible effects appear already during the first month.

People are freaking out. Their brains explode and the flesh is rotting.

Consequences of using krokodil drug

The effect holds only for one hour, so they need to catch up all the time. When craving, you want it faster and the production becomes a fruit of collective work. Hence, the drug dens.

The drug den is a funnel which sucks you in deeper and deeper and deeper. For young people it is often the first drug… and the last.

“Krokodil” is the drug for the poor. It is available. Therefore, in the small towns of Russia suffering from unemployment it is the major drug.

All you need to make it, is sold in pharmacies. The employees are perfectly aware to whom they sell and why.

Cooking krokodilMoreover, some of them come early in the morning and prepare the sets of Sedalgine and Tetralgine, carefully packed together with needles, iodine, formic alcohol etc. At the same time, the owners of pharmacies, seeing that the shelves are emptied, hurry to buy more.

Now look at this trend – Russian kids turn into animals and rot to death in front of their mothers. Meanwhile, the pharmacist, another Russian woman and mother, too, is selling to some Russian guy a package of tablets, knowing that he will turn into animal and rot.

And there is no one to blame. These are neither Chechens, nor Tajiks, nor Gypsies. These are Russians killing Russians. Every day, all over the country. And the vast majority don’t do it for profit, but simply for the paycheck. This is ridiculous and wild. And mean.

The owners and employees of pharmacies sell to youngsters hundreds of packages of codeine-containing drugs, saying – “We don’t kill!”

That’s right. You don’t press the trigger. You just give them the bullets.

Reactions of Russian netizens

henri_spb:  Restrictive measures – this is good. But when the drug is not available to normal people – it’s bad. In such way one will be able to buy only analgin.Запретительные меры – это хорошо. Что из-за наркоманов нормальным людям недоступны нормальные лекарства – плохо. Этак один анальгин можно будет купить.

laz_ka (replying to the above):  Normal people will be able to buy it by recipe.Нормальные люди смогут его купить по рецепту

shtabss:  The problems can be solved only if pharmacies are controlled by the state. All these private booths for drugs (not even pharmacies) will always sell anything to addicts. Until we have here the civilized business (and we will not have it for a long time), the medications should not be in private hands.реально проблему может решить только гос. фармакология – все эти частные ларьки по продаже лекарств (это даже не аптеки) – всегда продадут всё, что надо наркоману, пока здесь нет (и долго еще не будет) цивилизованного бизнеса, лекарства не должны быть в частных рука

yanaprobel:  Maybe better let them die? I somehow don’t have the desire to inject myself with this crap. If there are no brains – you can’t put someone else’s instead. может пусть сдохнут? у меня вот не возникает желания почемуто себе какую-то хуйню вколоть. нет мозгов – чужие не положишь

mcsoid:  Those owners of pharmacies and “caring” pharmacists should be chained to a pillory. So that all over the region there would be “leaderboards” with the words “They are killing our children!”Надо бы приковать к позорному столбу всех, кто причастен – и хозяев аптек, и ‘заботливых’ аптекарш. Так чтобы по всему региону ‘доски почета’ висели со словами ‘Они убивают ваших детей!’

But on the other hand … Someone might ruin his life if decides to lynch them.Но с другой стороны… Кто-нибудь решит устроить самомуд и жизнь себе загубит.

adcash:  Only the legalization of light drugs and distribution of substituting medications is a possible solution.Только легализция легких наркотиков и раздача заместительных препаратов видится решением.

drel_matador:  The firearms sellers also bring the bullets? It’s not about the pharmacists, for sure. продавцы оружия тоже получаются патроны подносят? не в фармацевтах дело, однозначно.

leshiy_1978:  Right. Now the junkies instead of buying the clean substance in pharmacies, will get from dealers some shit from which they will check out even quicker.Правильно. Теперь торчки будут покупать не в аптеке чистый препарат, а у барыг всякое гавно, от которого они сдохнут ещё скорее.

olleke_bolleke:  That’s the Market economy, some other oligarchs earn from it. так это Рыночная экономика, какие то другие олигархи на этом зарабатывают.

salomon9:  First person loses self respect, and only afterwards injects himself with krokodil. Not otherwise.Человек сначала теряет уважение к себе, а потом начинает колоться крокодилом. Никак иначе.

timur_nechaev77:  Life and health is man’s personal property, and not the property of other people or the state. Adults themselves should decide how to manage their lives and their health. If a man wants to die from drugs, or die in the war, or die from vodka. Who has the right to forbid it?Жизнь и здоровье человека его личная собственность, а не собственность каких-то других людей или государства. Взрослый человек сам должен решать как распоряжаться своей жизнью и своим здоровьем. Хочет человек погибнуть от наркотиков, или погибнуть на войне, или погибнуть от водки. Кто имеет право, ему это запретить?

chsvover9000 (replying to the above):  The problem is that besides the fact that they are dying, in search of loot for the dose they greatly increase the criminal situation around, by stealing and pillaging everything and everyone. And who has the right to prohibit the normal citizens to fight this? Obviously, reducing the number of junkies is much more effective, than putting him in prison after he already hedged 5 apartments and hit 3 people’s heads with a pipe.Проблема в том что кроме того что они сами дохнут, они в поисках бабла на дозу сильно повышают криминальную обстановку вокруг, ворую и грабя все и всех подряд. И кто имеет право запретить нормальным гражданам бороться с этим? Очевидно, что уменьшать число нарков гораздо эффективнее чем сажать уже после того как он 5 квартир обнес и 3-х трубой по голове треснул.

butch_ara (replying to the above):  Let’s also ban vodka. Alcoholics are sometimes aggressive.Водку ещё надо запретить. Алкоголики бывают агрессивны.

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