in 2013. The drug, a combination of codeine, gasoline, paint thinner, and alcohol, became popularized in Russia and has spread during 2013 to U.S. states including Utah, Arizona, and Illinois. Focus is given to the drug's side effects, which include abscesses and gangrene on the flesh ...
As it turns out, however, Krokodil did not originate in Siberia. It was first concocted by the U.S. in the 1930s as a potential morphine substitute, io9 reports, when it went by the name Desomorphine. Contrary to its chemists hopes, however, the new drug proved ...
The article gives information about desomorphine, a drug which was invented for medical use in 1932 and is being used in Russia as a cheap heroin substitute by addicts who call it "krokodil" and the zombie drug. The article notes the drug's "flesh-eating" side effects and its price in ...