News and Politics | June 22, 2011 | 4 comments

Home-made heroin substitute having horrific effects on thousands of Russia's drug addicts

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Krokodil is ten times harder and three times cheaper than heroin. Its usage is reportedly reaching epidemic levels in Russia, and only in Russia.

Russia has more heroin users than any other country in the world – up to two million, according to unofficial estimates. For most, their lot is a life of crime, stints in prison, probable contraction of HIV and hepatitis C, and an early death. As efforts to stem the flow of Afghan heroin into Russia bring some limited success, and the street price of the drug goes up, for those addicts who can't afford their next hit, an even more terrifying spectre has raised its head.

*Warning, pictures are graphic*

http://animalnewyork.com/2011/06/flesh-rotting-cheap-heroin-alternative-is-hot-i...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the-drug-that-eats-junki...
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4 comments // Home-made heroin substitute having horrific effects on thousands of Russia's drug addicts

  • percipi224
  • gortiz5150
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      gortiz5150  
    • Tell yourself:
      Just for today my thoughts will be on my recovery, living and enjoying life
      without the use of drugs.
      Just for today I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me
      and wants to help me in my recovery.
      Just for today I will have a program. I will try to follow it to the best of my ability.
      Just for today, through NA, I will try to get a better perspective on my life.
      Just for today I will be unafraid, my thoughts will be on my new associations,
      people who are not using and who have found a new way of life.
      So long as I follow that way, I have nothing to fear.

      A lot happens in one day, both negative and positive. If we do not take time to appreciate
      both, perhaps we will miss something that will help us grow. Our principles for living will guide
      us in recovery when we use them. We find it necessary to continue to do so on a daily basis.

    • 11 months ago
  • imisiu
  • EclecticBadger
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