There's a phrase in Russia, that goes like "Crocodile bit my friend's legs off", cause krokodil usage often leads to necrosis, which then leads to leg amputation.
@@betsymorgan9173Consider yourself lucky, this shit was on everyone's mind in my old school, the fact desperateness was strong enough in sum to do this.
I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to heroin. Heroin addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
One of the worst things I ever saw on the internet was a VICE documentary about Krokodil. There was a part with a woman who's entire arm had been eaten away and all that was left were the radius and ulna bones. Then the doctor took a metal instrument and tapped on the bone and the sound it made was pure PTSD.
I also watched that, It made me feel sick to my stomach. Don't get me wrong, I have sympathy for these people addiction is one of the hardest things that I had to battle and I had help through an addiction service. But knowing that it eats your body away like that makes me wonder why they'd touch it. If I couldn't afford heroin, I'd rather rattle (withdrawals) than touch that shit! And that's coming from someone who can not handle the slightest rattle well! If Russia hadn't banned addiction service treatment, this never would have caught on.
I've seen pics of a guy, I'm hoping in an ER, with his lower leg in a bucket. Why a bucket? Because his lower leg was a foot, shin BONE, and then his knee. The bone snapped, and so his lower leg was in sitting in the bucket. All from using this. Also, I saw a woman where the whole side of her face was bone. This crap doesn't play.
@@Demonic-Angel I have more experience with WDs than I ever want to remember and I'd still rather take them than literally melt away. Two weeks of hell and leg kicking is nothing compared to a lifetime of hell and having no legs to kick at all.
@@vwgirlHoly fk I saw the one with the guys leg in a bucket. The thing I'll never forget is the leg below the bone look like white paste molded into the shape of a foot!
I watched a few graphic videos about the effects of krokodil on addicts about a decade ago out of morbid curiosity. I have a pretty strong stomach but those images have stayed with me ever since; they really were the stuff of nightmares.
I agree, seeing the affects really hit it home for me. While watching this video, I kept wondering why he didn't show any of them and the best guess I came up with was that they'd get demonetized. Anyone know?
Reminds me of a 1973 sci-fi story by Alan Dean Foster, called "Bloodhype". The premise was there was a drug out there being pushed/added to other drugs that caused instant addiction, withdrawal was fatal, and the drug also killed its user in short order if they didn't take more and more each time. Uncanny and prophetic.
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 He was writing this as part of his Pip and Flinx series, so it was more of a vehicle for his plot and continuing storyline, yes. Still, it was (unintentionally) surprisingly apropos.
That reminds me of a movie called Blue Sunshine, about a delayed-reaction hallucinogen. It could take years for the bad effects to show up, which included baldness, severe headaches, finally derangement and violence causing murder and suicide. Spooked me at the time.
I was out there for 35 years. Got opiate addicted in 1995, multiple surgeries. I got clean 5 years ago. I am 60. I was careful to only take pills. Probably why I survived....
except when they use fear mongering to mislead the public about an opioid. with the vast majority of people owning a camera and the internet having close to no filters absurd claims can be made without much challange. since who cares about homeless people. especially since the US pharmacuetical industry is what created them in the first place.
I would like to see an Into the Shadows video on mad cow disease. With Simon's recent video where he commented that he doesn't understand why he can't donate blood, it seems like it would be fun.
@@JanTonovski lol. Well, seems it's getting to be time for another one then, because he seems to have innocently jettisoned that fear from his brain again.
I used to be a Deputy in California. Found a girl with infected krokadil injection spots the size of a baseball on each her arms. Said it was 10x better than heroin. Once of the grossest things ive ever seen in person. You could smell her dying when talking to her.
I highly doubt that desomorphine krokodile is being used or sold anywhere in the US. There is a popular tranq called xylozine that is being put into heroin/fentanyl causing similar lesions due to how caustic it is. The availability of an over the counter codeine as a codeine source is the main reason "krokodile" is being used where it is, it is generally not being trafficked, there are much cheaper and easier to produce on a large scale drugs that are just as effective, like fentanyl. I have seen people half dollar sized holes that were so deep I am sure I could have seen their bones if I looked, claiming to have been using krokodile, and I don't believe any of them were confirmed desomorphine.
It was in the Sacramento area in 2013 when I saw it. It was Desomorphine 100%. Large russian population in Sac along with user admission it was bought from the russians and was apparently quite amazing minus the hole rotting arms thing @@birdlawyer6191
The pictures of the users necrotic flesh is disturbing. I wouldn’t recommend searching. It’s absolutely shocking that they continue to do this to themselves. I understand addiction but this goes beyond that. It’s so sad.
You obviously do not understand addiction! If it was like “this is getting bad, I better stop” and then you can just stop, it wasn’t addiction in the first place
Addiction can be very powerful. The same can be said about smoking, we all know the dangers and see the graphic pictures on the packet but people still do it. Same goes for alcohol, meth, heroin.... society should have some compassion and help these people rather than demonise them.
Legally prescribed opioids are not exactly safe either. When my wife died they listed the cause of death as 'Positional Asphyxia' and I was told in no uncertain terms to STFU and stop asking why her GP thought giving her a half liter of oramorph a week was a good idea for a bad back.
every type of medication has potential side effects, sometimes fatal. I nearly died from supposedly safe low dose anti-depressants, a dose several times lower than normally given to patients (I wasn't prescribed this pill for depression but for an approved secondary effect). I nearly died from supposedly perfectly safe anti-diabetes medication. Instead of lowering my blood glucose, it caused it to skyrocket to the point where only taking a week's worth of insulin in the space of 2 hours prevented me from going into a coma. I had severe side effects from supposedly perfectly safe blood pressure medication. While that wasn't fatal, having severe and long term gout attacks from just a low dose of it was enough reason to quickly switch me to alternative. My mother nearly died from an anesthetic she was given by an expert during surgery. As is she 'only' ended up losing a leg and being paralysed from the waist down. Was an undocumented side effect, the drug is AFAIK no longer approved.
I’d consult a lawyer if you haven’t already. A hospital telling you to stop asking questions about a treatment that killed your wife?! I’d be screaming malpractice suit!
Vancouver legalized narcotics, have you seen the effects of that? You should. After you do, I'd ask what your solution would be, because legalization obviously can't be it. Legal or illegal, if people want to do them, they will.
😎Of course it is. Lawyers, doctors and politicians are making bank proving that people will do what they will do regardless of laws. During Prohibition people who wouldn’t normally break the laws made booze, and to fight it our government poisoned a bunch of booze and sent it out with a scary story about deadly homemade booze…
It is not the drug itself that causes the flesh eating effect it is the impurity that does it. Dihydrodesoxymorphine is no different or any more dangerous than any other opioid. I can say this confidently because I have used Desomorphine for months by IV, and have never had any flesh eating effects.
Every drug addict I’ve known, including myself thought they were smarter or better prepared than all the other drug addicts around them. Mark my words as an ex 10 year meth addict who is over 20 years clean. Your no different and if you don’t get off the shit you will never be happy and most likely will end up in a grave. A lot of my old drug friends are now dead. The meth scene didn’t include overdoses but blood infections and organ failure did happen. Smoking meth came with a number of people having strokes. Of course homicidal violence took a few out. Several suicides…. You can’t say the costs of drug addiction has nothing to do with drug addiction…. Denial and minimizing are all part of the game…. I pray you get your shit together before it’s too late.
@@vf12497439 Wow wow slow down there, I aint defending drugs in any way shape or form, im just stating that the drug isn't what causes flesh eating effects its the impurity from clandestine production. Also I agree I am no different than anyone else, and have lost many friends, and yes ill probably die one day too, ive gone 20 years IV and no overdose yet so as far as im concerned im on borrowed time. Being that I live in Canada and have a prescription for my opioid of choice as "harm prevention" might help but im still likely gonna end up 6 feet under some day because of it. Drugs are bad, and no one should ever use them, im an idiot, but i am happy as a functioning addict with a career.
thats why i have never just went park and picked them (i did for work but i wasent using them they were going in bin )they grow everywere in england but same as the posion ones
Simon didn't mention three things. 1) It's reeeally easy to brew. So easy that people brewed this in a pot on a kitchen 2) Making this thing isn't safe at all and it has real and very high risk of explosion. And it did happen, at least couple of times. Poor neighbours. 3) While being brewed, this thing smells unbearably horrible, and you really could tell that there is a krokodil den somewhere just by the smell. Poor neighbours №2. Happily, with strict drug prescription policy krokodil mentions disappeared from the news and I haven't heard about it for years.
Wait until Simon hears about Nitrazenes. 500 times more potent than Morphine and toppling drug users in Northern Ireland as of 2022. Another pharmaceutical grade pain killer that never made it on to the commercial market due to its potency but is now wreaking havoc. 😔
@KatJ3st Nitrazenes were developed in the 1950, and just like Desomorphine, the formula for the drug is available. A competent 'cook' can make batches of Nitrazene quite easily. Nitrazenes are then cut with other substances such as heroine, cocaine, ecstacy etc. Like Fentanyl which is 50-100 times more potent than morphine, Nitrazenes are 500 times more potent causing overdoses in large numbers. Just because a drug doesn't make it through the approval process and become commercially available doesn't mean the chemistry behind it disappears.
@@zeening Why are you such a loser you felt you had to respond? Under employed and bitter I guess huh? I won't be waiting for your 'REaction', so don't bother. See if you have any self control... cheers!
I was a hardcore IV addict for almost 10 years and I was actually given this once and I have a HUGE scar on my leg from where my flesh turned black and started dying within 24 hours. Also didn’t know vinegar was dangerous to inject bc that’s how you shoot up crack😂
LMAOOO. I don't shoot up, but, I've been a "high functioning" opiate(roxis>heroin-ECP>fent - in that order) since 09 now after a bad wreck. I've seen a lot of shit in my time...which, I've seen all of the above used for people to use to break down crack to shoot. It was just _yesterday_ I seen a mf using Kool-Aid to break down some for his rig. I laughed & laughed. He done his shot & said "Oh Yeahhhh" & I like to of fuckin died from laughing. Have also seen people w/ no water use Miller Lite, water out of a pothole & toilet to shoot up, too. Haha@@Sageof6Paths9
It's not only the fact that it has a pH of 3 that is terrible, it's the frequent injection that is required! An average heroin user will inject 4-6 times per day, must be FAR more for krokodyl, and every single time a person injects, even if using clean and fresh needles, it will cause vein damage and scarring.
Yup... ex IV user here 🙋♂️ and you're spot on. And you mention having clean and sharp 'works' ... Now imagine their needles are quite blunt.. damage just expedites incredibly quickly.
@@JonnyMack33 100% true! I was an IV H user for 7 years, and the veins in my arms are destroyed, and that was even with using a new rig each time. I know some friends who live in places where it's FAR more difficult than the UK to obtain works, and they've re-used their own 20+ times. Must be like trying to inject using a Bic pen tube :(
@@JonnyMack33 I know that most movie portrayals tend to be extremely exaggerated. Though in something like Requiem For a Dream, why does the guy ALWAYS inject at the exact same 'site', to the point that a limb can becomes infected and require amputation? Unless for some reason, that was supposed to be the 'BEST' location he still had available that didn't already have completely collapsed veins or something? It's definitely shocking for a movie, but is infection and amputation really a common result of frequent injections? How do diabetes patients handle it?
@@StreetPreacherr Some of the faulty thinking of a user comes to the conclusion that "needle tracks" (collapsing veins) can be reduced by only damaging a limited site. At least, that was one of the theories I've been told... If the vein's already open there, just use that again... and you don't have to worry about tearing into more and more places... Site rotation is another "method" but given the frequency of injection, even with heroin and morphine, there's only so much healing and recovery your body can accomplish, and even that gets diminished by the use of narcotics... Still others try to "hide the site" by finding weirder and more dubious places, including the sides of their neck, between fingers and toes, and so forth... AND it's a valid concern for diabetics that are dependent upon insulin injections, too. It's a part of diabetes that rarely gets discussed. They're not trying to get full effect instantly, and so frequently go after the flesh of the thighs, as they don't necessarily need to get directly into the veins or arteries to deliver the insulin. Still, the sites they use most frequently have a tendency (maybe not in all cases, but more frequent with higher dosages and injection rates) to develop fatty nodules and "lumps" where they most frequently inject. Hope this helps for clarity... Remember, once on the "addiction route" it can get damnably difficult to make any sense at all. Being "dope sick" is NO joke... and will make people think, perceive, and do things that don't make a hell of a lot of sense to the sober folks around them. ;o)
@@LEOAUNIT33Nhis sentence is grammatically correct, just a bit clunky. Don’t be an asshole. If you’re going to be an asshole, at least be a correct one.
@@LEOAUNIT33NI learned that a double negative makes a positive. Which means she’s happy that she’s allergic to opioids~I’m assuming it’s keeping her clean
I hope you never get major surgery! They are a god send!! I’ve never become addicted, and have been forever grateful for my doctor who prescribed them without question. Nothing worse then a doctor who refers to addicts when you tell them you are in pain!
What do you mean slip? its created by the doctors who prescribe opiates and then do nothing to relate the effects of addiction. Majority of homless people in the US are previously prescribed opiate users and veterans. But hey its easier for our collective mind if we demonize the people who need our help the most.
Very informative. I saw a documentary about it years ago. If I remember correctly, you have a life expectancy of about 7 to 12 months when you start using it, before you die of the horrible complications and dying tissue. Scary. Glad i Never tried ANY powder drugs. I DO have an addictive personality, so I am GLAD I was scared of them.
Is this a re-uploaded, i wondered what happened to someone of your content Im very glad they're not permanently lost as i think the exposure on these hard topics is good to start having a more open discussion about such drugs
@@justlooking777 Oh Jeez.. I imagine so too. Whatever happened, it likely needed a lot of morphine during his stay. Poor guy should have dialled back his hobbies a twidge.
@@justlooking777 depends on what setting he had the drill set on and what voltage battery it had.... and how much of a masochist he is lol I guess he is gonna get screwed in the end either way. Literally.
@@NobodyssGirlAgreed. Too many bleeding hearts for people who willingly choose to take dangerous drugs and ruin their lives. What ever happened to personal responsibility?
I saw a video of a person hobbling around.. they had lost the flesh on one leg from just below the knee down, there was no foot anymore. They had gangrene and were not seeking treatment. Just do deal with the pain of what they had done to their body means they couldn't ever go off the drug. Can't ever unsee.
One of the reasons that pharmaceutical companies won't endure decades of testing in order to determine 'long-term effects', is because the patents would expire before they got the drug to market. The answer might be to extend patents for drugs.
Until you take something life-saving, like insulin or a cure for cancer, and jack up the price, because you hold the patent, and cause patients to have to choose between eating/affording rent or life-saving medication. There's no good answer to this.
@@anaherceg7697 Sure there is. Because one company already did what you described: they jacked-up the price of insulin. And as a result, two other companies saw the niche, and filled it with reasonably-priced insulin.
It’s not the opioid that shortens a life, it’s the illegality of it. Wealthy junkies-who don’t have to worry about the law-usually live full lives. Opioids are the perfect drug except for the addiction, which is by far the worst. The addiction is so bad that the fact that the drug doesn’t bring death is a drawback. Trust me, you’d rather be dead.
No, long term opioid use causes some serious damage to ones health, if it comes from the street or out of an Rx, it doesn't matter. I work in Harm Reduction here in NYC and also have what we call as "Life Experience" A million dollars ain't gonna stop someone from an OD or stop an infection in the heart and so on. Tho the illegality doesn't stem the flow of death either tho and ever since we opened up a "Safe Injection Site" here in NYC, overdoses has dropped significantly with in that area of the city. But yeah, if we were able to get an actual clean and LEGAL supply, we wouldn't have to worry about the fentynal and xylazine that is now in the supply. The xylazine alone reminds me a lot of what Krokodil was doing 14 years ago in Russia tho that has dropped and is not found that much there anymore. I've seen Wallstreet bro's as long time clients and got to know some pretty well when they come in for an exchange who wear thousand dollar watches and find out they died a few days later. I have personally known so many kids that are dead from heroin LONG before I ever started to work in Harm Reduction that I used to joke that it could easily fill two school buses packed. That number has only tippled since.
being in the throes of withdrawal is punishment for all of the times you felt comfortably numb. death is welcomed! it may last for 10 days (the worst physical and mental pain) BUT IT FEELS LIKE A LIFETIME. and then you are told that you are going to feel depressed for a year!! i've never actually gone through a full withdrawal. first few times i went to detox and the third time i went on methadone. 24 hours of opiate withdrawal feels like 5 years, NO EXAGGERATION! i don't know how anyone can do a full withdrawal.
In the US, desomorphine is a Schedule 1 controlled substance, indicating that the United States FDA has determined that there are no legal medicinal uses for desomorphine in the United States. It has maintained this status as a controlled substance since 1936. The drug is a Narcotic in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act 1970 of the United States as drug number (ACSCN) 9055. It is therefore subject to annual aggregate manufacturing quotas in the United States, and in 2014 the quota for desomorphine was 5 grams. It is produced hydrochloride (free base conversion ratio 0.85) and sulphate (0.80).
I remember this being talked about in the states in the 2000s. I was in high school and hung around a bunch of dope heads and I remember several people mentioning this drug. I'm not saying they were using it or anything but the awareness at least made it over it.
@midnite_rambler she is from the US, she's a little better, at the very least of drugs, still has a massive bruise looking thing on her inner thigh from where she injected krokodil tho
The invasion of Afghanistan did NOT reduce opium and heroin exports. The Taliban were eradicating it and exports in the year 2000 were estimated at 86 tons in total. After the US led invasion, these slowly climbed and within a few years peaked at around 4,500 tons per annum. These statistics were published by the United Nations and are available online.
I watched a doco about this drug in small russian villages. It was insane and extremely sad. They has filmed (and blurred out) a woman who had left a well known drug house, mostly after trading sex for drugs, and she stumbled away to shoot up. The person taking the investigator around was talking about how much it has completelt desteoyed villages of people
I watched a VERY graphic documentary about this drug where it showed some of the people who were strung out on it and the many necrotic wounds they had inflicted on themselves. Those images are still so vivid in my mind. Idk how anyone gets themselves in a situation where they are willing to overlook the disgusting wounds they no doubt will suffer just to get high. Smh
Once I saw a meme: a cheburashka (ruzzian imaginary animal from a soviet "fairytail" where his friend was a crocodile) sitting on the crocodile. Each frame cheburashka was decaying. I got this meme only in 5 or even 10 years, that there is a phrase: "to sit on crocodile" - to be addicted to crocodile drug. P.S. Krokodil=Crocodile (literally).
there's thousands of different reasons people take drugs. some people take dangerous drugs bcs they simply have nothing left to lose and they just want to numb the pain, stay open minded as you never know what someone is going through :)
Oh hey, I was looking for this last night. The sweet sound of Fact Boi's voice talking about horrible drugs and the related social situations help me drift off.
did they cover "tranq"? fentanyl with Xylazine added? it also causes nonlocalized skin abscesses and contributes to increases risk of overdose that is less likely to be neutralized by Narcan
I was a nurse in a rehab center in Missouri and we had a gal with K rock idol and that was about 10 years ago. The nearby hospital also had a patient with it too and she was even on the local news.
2-1/2 years clean off of heroin. Started my own small business, have my own house, closer to my family and have great new hobbies that keep me entertained and loving life
All I have to say is I’m FOREVER grateful for opioids. I’ve had several major surgeries and was really grateful I had a doctor who prescribed me what I needed immediately without referring to “all the addicts”. They truly ruin it for EVERYONE!!
2:55 You can buy medicines containing a small amount of codeine over the counter. Painkillers like co-codamol (which also contains paracetamol) and Nurofen Plus (which also contains ibuprofen). In addition to being good painkillers, the fact that it's sold as a mixture means that anyone trying to get "high" by taking either of these would be ingesting a very dangerous and possibly lethal amount of paracetamol or ibuprofen. That's why Krokodil has gone through a chemical process, as the users are trying to separate out the codeine.
The “ flesh eating” properties of this substance is not any different from what we see in the fentanyl / zylazine combo in the states. It’s not really the drug itself that causes the lesions. It’s a side effect of the frequent use of the drug which inhibits and eventually blocks the skin from oxygenating itself, hence making the lesions and consequent infections which causes necrosis. Personal hygiene is another variable which determines how vulnerable the pt is in terms of how debilitating the sores will become. Different drugs….same biological side effects. It has nothing to do with iv or not. It’s an internal process which slows blood flow and therefore needed dermal oxygen to keep the surface skin alive and infection free . Just sayin.
@@77Dok77 im very surprized that this is kept so secrete. There’s also an antidote that works fairly promising with Zylazine. It’s a Benzodiazepine antidote. It’s called Flumasinil
Decades ago I was a veterinary tech. We had ketamine, Rompun(tm) which is xylazine, etc out on the counter in back all the time. No one ever thought of even touching the many vials of chemical goodness/badness/healing'ness I wonder if that same animal hospital has to be extra careful now.
Do any governments offer a similar 'treatment' program for alcoholics? Is there any facility that provides 'drunks' with a half dozen shots of vodka throughout the day, as part of some sort of 'addiction health study'?
@@StreetPreacherr Yes actually, there are some programs around the world where alcohol addicts are given controlled doses of alcohol, and it's fairly normal for people detoxing from alcohol to be given benzos as they hit the same same receptors in the brain and make the withdrawal symptoms far less deadly. Opioid substitution treatment is not some "addiction health study" as you so snarkily put it, it's been studied long before becoming a common treatment option and has proven to help most people.
@@StreetPreacherr Alcoholics are given benzodiazepines for withdrawal, which work on the same receptors as alcohol, so, in essence, yes. In fact if someone calls to get into rehab or any treatment program, they’re told to not stop drinking, because going cold turkey is very dangerous, and medical observation and intervention is necessary. Otherwise one can experience hallucinations, seizures, and at the very least uncontrollable shaking, sweating, and panic attacks. Opiate substitutions don’t get the patient high - they’re not just lowering their dose. They contain partial opiate agonist, so the brain thinks it’s still getting an opiate, coupled with a more powerful opiate antagonist, so the person doesn’t get any sort of dopamine reward.
@@StreetPreacherr I'd wager any health professional worth his wage would tell any hardcore alcoholic to not cut cold turkey since that has a risk to kill you so yes, they'll instruct you to taper off the booze gradually. Or offer you some with decreasing doses if you're bedridden. In the worst cases of alcohol abuse, yes they might just do what you described above but largely alcohol and opiates are completely different cans of fish and should be treated as such.
@@StreetPreacherralso funnily enough there was a study conducted where they did forcibly feed people shots to maintain their maximum level of drunkenness below lethal to study delirium tremens.
This is why the war on drugs is stupid. Making heroin harder to get makes overdoses and death due to use more prevalent. Give people safe and clean heroin and the ability to go to rehab, and boom, you’ll save lives.
My aunt, a registered nurse in canada, has worked with krokodil addicts and her worst story involved such damage to the flesh and bones in the hands that fingers had fallen off before treatment and at least one came off during examination
Just legalize Heroin! People will stop using unsafe and dangerous alternatives, when they have access to safe and legal Heroin. The extensive use of these kind of drugs is mostly due to some kind of trauma. It's medicine. Let's help people instead of stigmatizing them!
Is this a reupload? Didnt you already do a video on krokodil on one of your other channels? Of maybe it was infographics, i have noticed that you guys and infographics channel seem to constantly upload the same subject matter within 1-2 weeks of eachother.
As bad as krokodil is it doesnt hold a candle to alcoholism and obesity, its all about perspective. But i assume you wrote that comment to make yourself feel better. Im not against drugs. i smoke up too but i think its silly to make remarks as if the problem is the drugs and not the addiction. @@kreiner1
As a recovering addict i remember when this stuff found its way into my area. And sadly ill tell you from experience that if someone ODs on something thats what everyone wants. Glad i made it out and everyone else that did as well
While it may sound inane, not being able to void your bladder causes the fluid retention to affect the kidneys which will get backed up. Could also lead to sepsis quickly. Actually a pretty messed up situation. :)
I have back issues and was told if I have some urinary retention to call an ambulance without delay. Not high blood pressure or breathing. It's very serious.
It sounds like you got your info from the Wikipedia page and slightly misunderstood it. The Ph is not 3, that is the top end, they state 'analysis of leftover solutions of "krokodil" in used syringes showed the pH was typically less than 3' In lab synthesis it is 1.15 +/- 0.15, full paper is on journal of Forensic Science international.
This is just another example as to why drugs should be legalized and regulated. Opioid addiction is terrible, and you shouldn't use heroin or pills, but if it was regulated in similar ways that marijuana is in some US states than it would cut opioid related deaths dramatically because people would know exactly what they're getting and how strong it is. I see the war on drugs like alcohol prohibition in the 20s, it doesn't stop people, it just makes it more dangerous.
This is not. What it shows is that society does not need to be at a point where its people are using drugs to sedate themselves into escapism and compliance
Gambling is a tax on people bad at math. Illegal drugs are illegal because they're harmful, not because the lawmakers are killjoys. Maybe drugs are fascinating to people bad at statistics?
@@kerriwilson7732 drugs are fascinating to people not aware of the risk or in a sufficiently dark place that the risks may be damned. I don't think drugs should be legalized my self, I do think usage shouldn't be treated as a crime though. Dealing should be the crime, punish the perp not the victim. If you treat possession for personal use or usage as a crime it'll discourage people from seeking help for no major benefit to anyone.
"All opioids are dangerous".. No, no, no! As with everything of that nature, it depends on dosage, purity and other things. Addiction is also a multi-factor issue. I would definitely argue that like anything that is medicine, opiods are perfectly fine used for their intended purpose, in the right dosage and for the right length of time. Don't demonise something just because you've been told it's bad.
They're not perfectly fine, they carry major risks of addiction even in correct doses. Don't lie to yourself about it, be aware of the risns and have a plan to deal with the withdrawal once you get off it.
@@brainz2 he said he's afraid of injections and is greatful for that so he's nvr tempted to try the drug but I just gave him a alternative way to do the drug by snorting it
This is a fucking nightmare. We shouldn't solely try to stomp out drugs. What we need to do is figure WHY people need drugs in the first place. Get these people therapy & proper medical help!
YES! It really annoyed me when Simon said "all opiods are dangerous." No, dependency and addiction are dangerous and they are incredibly complicated things. Don't blame the drug. The drug does wonders in the right circumstances and the right context.
I am a healthcare worker in the USA. We had a pt who ordered a synthetic benzo called phenazepam, online, from Russia; after one use the pt's mind was completely gone and i dont think the pt will ever recover. The pt's family said the pt was very smart and intelligent before the pt tried the drug.
I have very little sympathy for people who use this stuff. Addiction is a complicated beast, I will agree with that point, and withdrawal is absolutely awful, I don't argue that, but when you inject something like this, you seriously don't care if you live, so I don't care if you die.
Every time Big Nanny tries to control what people do to their bodies, they make the problem worse. Look no further than alcohol prohibition. People were going blind and dying from bad booze.
Searched it up and looked at the images for a milisecond, didnt even get a proper look at it but im still traumatized mane... the internets a horrible place
There's a phrase in Russia, that goes like "Crocodile bit my friend's legs off", cause krokodil usage often leads to necrosis, which then leads to leg amputation.
Thank God I have never heard of this stuff.
@@betsymorgan9173Consider yourself lucky, this shit was on everyone's mind in my old school, the fact desperateness was strong enough in sum to do this.
I’ve lost both my arms and legs because of it. I’m typing this with my earlobe.
@@cotati76I lost my todger, so I'm typing this with my fingers
@@Jetgrego yikes!! And I thought I have it tough.
I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to heroin. Heroin addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
I love hearing great life changing stories like this. I want to become a mycologist because honestly mushrooms are the best form of medicine (most especially the psychedelic ones) There are so many people today used magic mushrooms to ween off of SSRI medication- its amazing! Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death buddy, lets be honest here.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Australia don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
Yes sure of mycologist Pedroshrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, addiction. Mushrooms did a total reset for me.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Where do I reach this dude? If possible can I find him on Google
One of the worst things I ever saw on the internet was a VICE documentary about Krokodil. There was a part with a woman who's entire arm had been eaten away and all that was left were the radius and ulna bones. Then the doctor took a metal instrument and tapped on the bone and the sound it made was pure PTSD.
I also watched that, It made me feel sick to my stomach. Don't get me wrong, I have sympathy for these people addiction is one of the hardest things that I had to battle and I had help through an addiction service. But knowing that it eats your body away like that makes me wonder why they'd touch it. If I couldn't afford heroin, I'd rather rattle (withdrawals) than touch that shit! And that's coming from someone who can not handle the slightest rattle well! If Russia hadn't banned addiction service treatment, this never would have caught on.
I've seen pics of a guy, I'm hoping in an ER, with his lower leg in a bucket. Why a bucket? Because his lower leg was a foot, shin BONE, and then his knee. The bone snapped, and so his lower leg was in sitting in the bucket. All from using this. Also, I saw a woman where the whole side of her face was bone. This crap doesn't play.
@@Demonic-Angel I have more experience with WDs than I ever want to remember and I'd still rather take them than literally melt away. Two weeks of hell and leg kicking is nothing compared to a lifetime of hell and having no legs to kick at all.
@@Nefville Precisely!!! 💯 👌🏻
@@vwgirlHoly fk I saw the one with the guys leg in a bucket. The thing I'll never forget is the leg below the bone look like white paste molded into the shape of a foot!
I watched a few graphic videos about the effects of krokodil on addicts about a decade ago out of morbid curiosity. I have a pretty strong stomach but those images have stayed with me ever since; they really were the stuff of nightmares.
Yes I did the same investigation a few years ago and those images, have likewise stayed with me ever since.
But seeing the videos and continuing to use the substance is the action of a moron.
I agree, seeing the affects really hit it home for me. While watching this video, I kept wondering why he didn't show any of them and the best guess I came up with was that they'd get demonetized. Anyone know?
America has the same exact issue going on right now. Different drug but people are walking around with bones exposed as I type this.
@@timothykappel198
So if it’s not krokodil, what is the drug in America?
My mom texted me randomly one day.
“Never try Krokadil!”
Like… alright, mom. Thx… wasn’t gonna, but ok.
good she is looking out for u
Thanks cute in a morbid kinda way.
It fine sticking to rok mum 😂
I'm from Syberia. And i remember teachers would show us shocking videos of that drug effect to scare us away from drugs.
IDC if it’s a re-upload, it’s still a very informative episode.
Everything is a reupload at this point
@@johnymey4034 pretty sure everyone's confusing this with the Tranq video
Reminds me of a 1973 sci-fi story by Alan Dean Foster, called "Bloodhype". The premise was there was a drug out there being pushed/added to other drugs that caused instant addiction, withdrawal was fatal, and the drug also killed its user in short order if they didn't take more and more each time. Uncanny and prophetic.
The difference being that the person who wrote the book didn't actually think it would happen.
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 He was writing this as part of his Pip and Flinx series, so it was more of a vehicle for his plot and continuing storyline, yes. Still, it was (unintentionally) surprisingly apropos.
@@petuniasevan, I enjoyed the Pip and Flinx series. I read almost all the books with those two, but not "Bloodhype".
That reminds me of a movie called Blue Sunshine, about a delayed-reaction hallucinogen. It could take years for the bad effects to show up, which included baldness, severe headaches, finally derangement and violence causing murder and suicide. Spooked me at the time.
It's like in Rimworld (a game), the drug Luciferium
I was out there for 35 years. Got opiate addicted in 1995, multiple surgeries. I got clean 5 years ago. I am 60. I was careful to only take pills. Probably why I survived....
The sad truth is that most people on here dont have the humanity to see addicted people are other humans. Its easier to demonize them than help
Saw the Vice documentary on Krokodil a few years ago, it's freakin horrific (back in the days when Vice still made good well researched docs).
Same, to the point that it still makes my skin crawl when anyone mentions krokodil (and yet I still clicked on this video).
Ugh true that vice is utter dog shit now
I remember it being in the vice printed magazine . I’d get them from head shops as a kid lol. Wish I’d kept them
Vice still makes good drug documentaries evey blue moon
except when they use fear mongering to mislead the public about an opioid. with the vast majority of people owning a camera and the internet having close to no filters absurd claims can be made without much challange. since who cares about homeless people. especially since the US pharmacuetical industry is what created them in the first place.
I would like to see an Into the Shadows video on mad cow disease. With Simon's recent video where he commented that he doesn't understand why he can't donate blood, it seems like it would be fun.
He already did, it is the one on the Jacob-Creutzfeld disease. The video name has prions in it
@@JanTonovski lol. Well, seems it's getting to be time for another one then, because he seems to have innocently jettisoned that fear from his brain again.
Prions where did I hear that oh yeah the vaccines
@@funnycatvideos5490 sorry, what?
@@funnycatvideos5490are you trying to tell us you can be affected by scrapie?😅
I used to be a Deputy in California. Found a girl with infected krokadil injection spots the size of a baseball on each her arms. Said it was 10x better than heroin. Once of the grossest things ive ever seen in person. You could smell her dying when talking to her.
😊
Hot. I bet she was easy.
I highly doubt that desomorphine krokodile is being used or sold anywhere in the US. There is a popular tranq called xylozine that is being put into heroin/fentanyl causing similar lesions due to how caustic it is. The availability of an over the counter codeine as a codeine source is the main reason "krokodile" is being used where it is, it is generally not being trafficked, there are much cheaper and easier to produce on a large scale drugs that are just as effective, like fentanyl. I have seen people half dollar sized holes that were so deep I am sure I could have seen their bones if I looked, claiming to have been using krokodile, and I don't believe any of them were confirmed desomorphine.
It was in the Sacramento area in 2013 when I saw it. It was Desomorphine 100%. Large russian population in Sac along with user admission it was bought from the russians and was apparently quite amazing minus the hole rotting arms thing
@@birdlawyer6191
And what did you do?
The pictures of the users necrotic flesh is disturbing. I wouldn’t recommend searching.
It’s absolutely shocking that they continue to do this to themselves. I understand addiction but this goes beyond that. It’s so sad.
why the hell did I still search it....
@@Luke24160 Because you want to randomly torture yourself? 😂
@@RaineSophiaLewis apparently 😂
You obviously do not understand addiction! If it was like “this is getting bad, I better stop” and then you can just stop, it wasn’t addiction in the first place
Addiction can be very powerful. The same can be said about smoking, we all know the dangers and see the graphic pictures on the packet but people still do it. Same goes for alcohol, meth, heroin.... society should have some compassion and help these people rather than demonise them.
I’m having déjà vu 😅 didn’t I already hear Simon talk about this drug?
Pretty sure
I think so, on one of his many other channels.
Yes. And it was on this same channel
It's probably a re-upload but if it is maybe the title should reflect that
100%
Legally prescribed opioids are not exactly safe either. When my wife died they listed the cause of death as 'Positional Asphyxia' and I was told in no uncertain terms to STFU and stop asking why her GP thought giving her a half liter of oramorph a week was a good idea for a bad back.
every type of medication has potential side effects, sometimes fatal.
I nearly died from supposedly safe low dose anti-depressants, a dose several times lower than normally given to patients (I wasn't prescribed this pill for depression but for an approved secondary effect).
I nearly died from supposedly perfectly safe anti-diabetes medication. Instead of lowering my blood glucose, it caused it to skyrocket to the point where only taking a week's worth of insulin in the space of 2 hours prevented me from going into a coma.
I had severe side effects from supposedly perfectly safe blood pressure medication. While that wasn't fatal, having severe and long term gout attacks from just a low dose of it was enough reason to quickly switch me to alternative.
My mother nearly died from an anesthetic she was given by an expert during surgery. As is she 'only' ended up losing a leg and being paralysed from the waist down. Was an undocumented side effect, the drug is AFAIK no longer approved.
Sounds like a medmal in the making
Im sorry for your loss, wishing you the best
Who exactly told you to stfu? Your wife died and you didn't stick the mf'er that told you to stfu with your questions surrounding her death?
I’d consult a lawyer if you haven’t already. A hospital telling you to stop asking questions about a treatment that killed your wife?! I’d be screaming malpractice suit!
Krokodil in Russia, the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. The war on drugs sure is going well.
Now it's turning into the tranq crisis. Fentanyl just killed you but tranq kills you and creates zombies walking around with bones exposed.
Vancouver legalized narcotics, have you seen the effects of that? You should. After you do, I'd ask what your solution would be, because legalization obviously can't be it. Legal or illegal, if people want to do them, they will.
Its going great. Drugs and big pharma are winning.
😎Of course it is. Lawyers, doctors and politicians are making bank proving that people will do what they will do regardless of laws. During Prohibition people who wouldn’t normally break the laws made booze, and to fight it our government poisoned a bunch of booze and sent it out with a scary story about deadly homemade booze…
almost as if taking money from bettering communities to punishing afterwards doesn't work...
It is not the drug itself that causes the flesh eating effect it is the impurity that does it. Dihydrodesoxymorphine is no different or any more dangerous than any other opioid. I can say this confidently because I have used Desomorphine for months by IV, and have never had any flesh eating effects.
Thank you for ckarifying
Every drug addict I’ve known, including myself thought they were smarter or better prepared than all the other drug addicts around them. Mark my words as an ex 10 year meth addict who is over 20 years clean. Your no different and if you don’t get off the shit you will never be happy and most likely will end up in a grave. A lot of my old drug friends are now dead. The meth scene didn’t include overdoses but blood infections and organ failure did happen. Smoking meth came with a number of people having strokes. Of course homicidal violence took a few out. Several suicides…. You can’t say the costs of drug addiction has nothing to do with drug addiction…. Denial and minimizing are all part of the game…. I pray you get your shit together before it’s too late.
He did reference the heavy metals
@@vf12497439 Wow wow slow down there, I aint defending drugs in any way shape or form, im just stating that the drug isn't what causes flesh eating effects its the impurity from clandestine production. Also I agree I am no different than anyone else, and have lost many friends, and yes ill probably die one day too, ive gone 20 years IV and no overdose yet so as far as im concerned im on borrowed time. Being that I live in Canada and have a prescription for my opioid of choice as "harm prevention" might help but im still likely gonna end up 6 feet under some day because of it. Drugs are bad, and no one should ever use them, im an idiot, but i am happy as a functioning addict with a career.
@@vf12497439 I feel like op meant they were in the hospital, it was through an IV..
In a documentary a female cook said "you need to be good at cooking this stuff. At the beginning i cooked for my friends. They are all dead."
thats why i have never just went park and picked them (i did for work but i wasent using them they were going in bin )they grow everywere in england but same as the posion ones
Simon didn't mention three things. 1) It's reeeally easy to brew. So easy that people brewed this in a pot on a kitchen 2) Making this thing isn't safe at all and it has real and very high risk of explosion. And it did happen, at least couple of times. Poor neighbours. 3) While being brewed, this thing smells unbearably horrible, and you really could tell that there is a krokodil den somewhere just by the smell. Poor neighbours №2. Happily, with strict drug prescription policy krokodil mentions disappeared from the news and I haven't heard about it for years.
Wait until Simon hears about Nitrazenes. 500 times more potent than Morphine and toppling drug users in Northern Ireland as of 2022. Another pharmaceutical grade pain killer that never made it on to the commercial market due to its potency but is now wreaking havoc. 😔
If it didn't make it to the market, how did addicts get it on the street?
@@KatJ3stthey mean the commercial market
@KatJ3st Nitrazenes were developed in the 1950, and just like Desomorphine, the formula for the drug is available. A competent 'cook' can make batches of Nitrazene quite easily. Nitrazenes are then cut with other substances such as heroine, cocaine, ecstacy etc. Like Fentanyl which is 50-100 times more potent than morphine, Nitrazenes are 500 times more potent causing overdoses in large numbers. Just because a drug doesn't make it through the approval process and become commercially available doesn't mean the chemistry behind it disappears.
@@KatJ3st those last 2 brain cells worked so hard to type that and you wasted them on something that dumb, oooof.
@@zeening Why are you such a loser you felt you had to respond? Under employed and bitter I guess huh? I won't be waiting for your 'REaction', so don't bother. See if you have any self control... cheers!
I was a hardcore IV addict for almost 10 years and I was actually given this once and I have a HUGE scar on my leg from where my flesh turned black and started dying within 24 hours. Also didn’t know vinegar was dangerous to inject bc that’s how you shoot up crack😂
Congrats on your, i assume non-drug addictions now.
Vinegar, ascorbine and lemonjuice is used for heroine , crack can be disolved in water. What was your drug of choice?
@JustAGuyVideoTapingCats shit I saw people use Krystal Lite packets whatever works😂
@JustAGuyVideoTapingCats offcourse but why would one disolve crack in vinegar is the real question
LMAOOO. I don't shoot up, but, I've been a "high functioning" opiate(roxis>heroin-ECP>fent - in that order) since 09 now after a bad wreck. I've seen a lot of shit in my time...which, I've seen all of the above used for people to use to break down crack to shoot. It was just _yesterday_ I seen a mf using Kool-Aid to break down some for his rig. I laughed & laughed. He done his shot & said "Oh Yeahhhh" & I like to of fuckin died from laughing.
Have also seen people w/ no water use Miller Lite, water out of a pothole & toilet to shoot up, too. Haha@@Sageof6Paths9
It's not only the fact that it has a pH of 3 that is terrible, it's the frequent injection that is required! An average heroin user will inject 4-6 times per day, must be FAR more for krokodyl, and every single time a person injects, even if using clean and fresh needles, it will cause vein damage and scarring.
Yup... ex IV user here 🙋♂️ and you're spot on. And you mention having clean and sharp 'works' ... Now imagine their needles are quite blunt.. damage just expedites incredibly quickly.
@@JonnyMack33 100% true! I was an IV H user for 7 years, and the veins in my arms are destroyed, and that was even with using a new rig each time. I know some friends who live in places where it's FAR more difficult than the UK to obtain works, and they've re-used their own 20+ times. Must be like trying to inject using a Bic pen tube :(
@@JonnyMack33 I know that most movie portrayals tend to be extremely exaggerated. Though in something like Requiem For a Dream, why does the guy ALWAYS inject at the exact same 'site', to the point that a limb can becomes infected and require amputation? Unless for some reason, that was supposed to be the 'BEST' location he still had available that didn't already have completely collapsed veins or something?
It's definitely shocking for a movie, but is infection and amputation really a common result of frequent injections? How do diabetes patients handle it?
@@StreetPreacherr Some of the faulty thinking of a user comes to the conclusion that "needle tracks" (collapsing veins) can be reduced by only damaging a limited site. At least, that was one of the theories I've been told... If the vein's already open there, just use that again... and you don't have to worry about tearing into more and more places...
Site rotation is another "method" but given the frequency of injection, even with heroin and morphine, there's only so much healing and recovery your body can accomplish, and even that gets diminished by the use of narcotics...
Still others try to "hide the site" by finding weirder and more dubious places, including the sides of their neck, between fingers and toes, and so forth...
AND it's a valid concern for diabetics that are dependent upon insulin injections, too. It's a part of diabetes that rarely gets discussed. They're not trying to get full effect instantly, and so frequently go after the flesh of the thighs, as they don't necessarily need to get directly into the veins or arteries to deliver the insulin. Still, the sites they use most frequently have a tendency (maybe not in all cases, but more frequent with higher dosages and injection rates) to develop fatty nodules and "lumps" where they most frequently inject.
Hope this helps for clarity... Remember, once on the "addiction route" it can get damnably difficult to make any sense at all. Being "dope sick" is NO joke... and will make people think, perceive, and do things that don't make a hell of a lot of sense to the sober folks around them. ;o)
Obviously the h in uk is different
I’ve never had that many digs in one day
You know I've never not been happy I'm allergic to opioids.
Also you never learned grammar.
@@LEOAUNIT33Nhis sentence is grammatically correct, just a bit clunky. Don’t be an asshole. If you’re going to be an asshole, at least be a correct one.
@@LEOAUNIT33NI learned that a double negative makes a positive. Which means she’s happy that she’s allergic to opioids~I’m assuming it’s keeping her clean
@@LEOAUNIT33Nsociety does not appreciate pedantry.
I hope you never get major surgery! They are a god send!! I’ve never become addicted, and have been forever grateful for my doctor who prescribed them without question. Nothing worse then a doctor who refers to addicts when you tell them you are in pain!
Yea, when people slip into heroin addiction and are denied any help, they'll make "No we have heroin at home" by themselves
What do you mean slip? its created by the doctors who prescribe opiates and then do nothing to relate the effects of addiction. Majority of homless people in the US are previously prescribed opiate users and veterans. But hey its easier for our collective mind if we demonize the people who need our help the most.
Very informative. I saw a documentary about it years ago. If I remember correctly, you have a life expectancy of about 7 to 12 months when you start using it, before you die of the horrible complications and dying tissue. Scary. Glad i Never tried ANY powder drugs. I DO have an addictive personality, so I am GLAD I was scared of them.
Is this a re-uploaded, i wondered what happened to someone of your content
Im very glad they're not permanently lost as i think the exposure on these hard topics is good to start having a more open discussion about such drugs
This is just what I need for my drug eating flesh.
If you try to stop people from doing something they want to do you'll just make them find alternative solutions- which lead to far worse results.
Yes. Black markets are far more dangerous.
@@justlooking777 Oh Jeez.. I imagine so too. Whatever happened, it likely needed a lot of morphine during his stay. Poor guy should have dialled back his hobbies a twidge.
@@justlooking777 depends on what setting he had the drill set on and what voltage battery it had.... and how much of a masochist he is lol I guess he is gonna get screwed in the end either way. Literally.
Then they deserve whats coming to them
@@NobodyssGirlAgreed. Too many bleeding hearts for people who willingly choose to take dangerous drugs and ruin their lives. What ever happened to personal responsibility?
british vsauce
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I saw a video of a person hobbling around.. they had lost the flesh on one leg from just below the knee down, there was no foot anymore. They had gangrene and were not seeking treatment. Just do deal with the pain of what they had done to their body means they couldn't ever go off the drug. Can't ever unsee.
One of the reasons that pharmaceutical companies won't endure decades of testing in order to determine 'long-term effects', is because the patents would expire before they got the drug to market. The answer might be to extend patents for drugs.
Until you take something life-saving, like insulin or a cure for cancer, and jack up the price, because you hold the patent, and cause patients to have to choose between eating/affording rent or life-saving medication. There's no good answer to this.
@@anaherceg7697 Sure there is. Because one company already did what you described: they jacked-up the price of insulin. And as a result, two other companies saw the niche, and filled it with reasonably-priced insulin.
This video is perfectly okay without pictures
It’s not the opioid that shortens a life, it’s the illegality of it. Wealthy junkies-who don’t have to worry about the law-usually live full lives. Opioids are the perfect drug except for the addiction, which is by far the worst. The addiction is so bad that the fact that the drug doesn’t bring death is a drawback. Trust me, you’d rather be dead.
True story, my dude
No, long term opioid use causes some serious damage to ones health, if it comes from the street or out of an Rx, it doesn't matter. I work in Harm Reduction here in NYC and also have what we call as "Life Experience" A million dollars ain't gonna stop someone from an OD or stop an infection in the heart and so on. Tho the illegality doesn't stem the flow of death either tho and ever since we opened up a "Safe Injection Site" here in NYC, overdoses has dropped significantly with in that area of the city.
But yeah, if we were able to get an actual clean and LEGAL supply, we wouldn't have to worry about the fentynal and xylazine that is now in the supply. The xylazine alone reminds me a lot of what Krokodil was doing 14 years ago in Russia tho that has dropped and is not found that much there anymore.
I've seen Wallstreet bro's as long time clients and got to know some pretty well when they come in for an exchange who wear thousand dollar watches and find out they died a few days later. I have personally known so many kids that are dead from heroin LONG before I ever started to work in Harm Reduction that I used to joke that it could easily fill two school buses packed. That number has only tippled since.
Buprenorphine, my dude. Just dont inject it and youll do relatively fine.@@JaymeSplendid
Absolutely buddy only people that have came through it can relate to the truth of that statement
being in the throes of withdrawal is punishment for all of the times you felt comfortably numb. death is welcomed! it may last for 10 days (the worst physical and mental pain) BUT IT FEELS LIKE A LIFETIME. and then you are told that you are going to feel depressed for a year!! i've never actually gone through a full withdrawal. first few times i went to detox and the third time i went on methadone. 24 hours of opiate withdrawal feels like 5 years, NO EXAGGERATION! i don't know how anyone can do a full withdrawal.
Red phosphorus isn't found on the match tips but on the striker strips. The match tip contains oxidising agents, like potassium chlorate, binders etc
In the US, desomorphine is a Schedule 1 controlled substance, indicating that the United States FDA has determined that there are no legal medicinal uses for desomorphine in the United States. It has maintained this status as a controlled substance since 1936. The drug is a Narcotic in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act 1970 of the United States as drug number (ACSCN) 9055. It is therefore subject to annual aggregate manufacturing quotas in the United States, and in 2014 the quota for desomorphine was 5 grams. It is produced hydrochloride (free base conversion ratio 0.85) and sulphate (0.80).
Five grams for what?
Nor is crack ...but the us leads in that drug and poverty
@@quinn799 now im starting to wonder how much krokodil can be made with 5 grams of deso (since i am fairly sure that krokodil is not straight deso)
I remember this being talked about in the states in the 2000s. I was in high school and hung around a bunch of dope heads and I remember several people mentioning this drug. I'm not saying they were using it or anything but the awareness at least made it over it.
My sister was on krokodil when the prostitution ring she was trafficked into got busted. This was in the US and occured less than a year ago.
Oh my god. How is she now?
@@simphobic1373 in jail because she was on the run
She is not originally from the US?
How is her health now?
She’s a victim of the sex trade! Why the hell did they lock her up?!?!?
@midnite_rambler she is from the US, she's a little better, at the very least of drugs, still has a massive bruise looking thing on her inner thigh from where she injected krokodil tho
The invasion of Afghanistan did NOT reduce opium and heroin exports. The Taliban were eradicating it and exports in the year 2000 were estimated at 86 tons in total. After the US led invasion, these slowly climbed and within a few years peaked at around 4,500 tons per annum. These statistics were published by the United Nations and are available online.
I watched a doco about this drug in small russian villages.
It was insane and extremely sad. They has filmed (and blurred out) a woman who had left a well known drug house, mostly after trading sex for drugs, and she stumbled away to shoot up.
The person taking the investigator around was talking about how much it has completelt desteoyed villages of people
Keep up the good work Simon! Saving lives! 💛
Did this video get deleted and reuploaded? I feel like I remember this video being out a few months ago?
I watched a VERY graphic documentary about this drug where it showed some of the people who were strung out on it and the many necrotic wounds they had inflicted on themselves. Those images are still so vivid in my mind. Idk how anyone gets themselves in a situation where they are willing to overlook the disgusting wounds they no doubt will suffer just to get high. Smh
how many channels does this man have????
he is everywhere...
Once I saw a meme: a cheburashka (ruzzian imaginary animal from a soviet "fairytail" where his friend was a crocodile) sitting on the crocodile. Each frame cheburashka was decaying.
I got this meme only in 5 or even 10 years, that there is a phrase: "to sit on crocodile" - to be addicted to crocodile drug.
P.S. Krokodil=Crocodile (literally).
Interesting. Thanks for your comment :)
sometimes I wonder why people take dangerous or unknown drugs but then I realise what great fools humans are.
be happy you can "wonder why" and stop being so judgemental
@@3ginmyblunt is that not what you just did to me?
I am sorry if you got offended by my words.
did it make you depressed?
there's thousands of different reasons people take drugs. some people take dangerous drugs bcs they simply have nothing left to lose and they just want to numb the pain, stay open minded as you never know what someone is going through :)
@@3ginmyblunt People need to be way more judgmental of poor choices and behaviors. Wokeness has had its time …
@@ma3stro681 heartless people don't deserve a place in this world
Oh hey, I was looking for this last night. The sweet sound of Fact Boi's voice talking about horrible drugs and the related social situations help me drift off.
Calling it Heroin is a stretch. It's more like hydrochloric acid that can also get you high
You are EVERYWHERE omg every informative video it’s YOU OMG
did they cover "tranq"? fentanyl with Xylazine added? it also causes nonlocalized skin abscesses and contributes to increases risk of overdose that is less likely to be neutralized by Narcan
yep! I believe it was covered on this channel as well.
@@Kendingro thanks!
I was a nurse in a rehab center in Missouri and we had a gal with K rock idol and that was about 10 years ago. The nearby hospital also had a patient with it too and she was even on the local news.
As an ex heroin addict I can guarantee krokodil has been in North America, or at least the state of Oregon.
2-1/2 years clean off of heroin. Started my own small business, have my own house, closer to my family and have great new hobbies that keep me entertained and loving life
Didnt you already do a video on Krokodil?
He did
Yeah he has. I just can’t remember what channel it’s on
On a different channel. He speaks for several.
@@Timsmith13911 It was on this channel. For some reason several videos were made private a while back.
It's privated now if you go to the drugs playlist
Does anyone know why multiple videos are gone on this channel? The one on the kursk and the flesh eating bacteria for example.
Probably TH-cam not liking certain things or maybe copyright issues.
@@adenkyramud5005 That could be indeed a logical reason.
Censorship is an epidemic. The elite want people dumb as usual.
TH-cam is really weird and inconsistent about demonetizing and/or hiding any videos that the algorithm finds potentially upsetting.
This is Simon’s hypochondriac outlet platform 😂
Is this not a reupload? I know Ive seen Simon talk about this drug before
Reupload?
Haven't you already uploaded a video on Krokodil a while back?
Great video as always, though.
All I have to say is I’m FOREVER grateful for opioids. I’ve had several major surgeries and was really grateful I had a doctor who prescribed me what I needed immediately without referring to “all the addicts”. They truly ruin it for EVERYONE!!
2:55 You can buy medicines containing a small amount of codeine over the counter. Painkillers like co-codamol (which also contains paracetamol) and Nurofen Plus (which also contains ibuprofen). In addition to being good painkillers, the fact that it's sold as a mixture means that anyone trying to get "high" by taking either of these would be ingesting a very dangerous and possibly lethal amount of paracetamol or ibuprofen. That's why Krokodil has gone through a chemical process, as the users are trying to separate out the codeine.
The “ flesh eating” properties of this substance is not any different from what we see in the fentanyl / zylazine combo in the states. It’s not really the drug itself that causes the lesions. It’s a side effect of the frequent use of the drug which inhibits and eventually blocks the skin from oxygenating itself, hence making the lesions and consequent infections which causes necrosis. Personal hygiene is another variable which determines how vulnerable the pt is in terms of how debilitating the sores will become.
Different drugs….same biological side effects. It has nothing to do with iv or not. It’s an internal process which slows blood flow and therefore needed dermal oxygen to keep the surface skin alive and infection free . Just sayin.
Interesting, I always wondered what actually caused it.
@@77Dok77 im very surprized that this is kept so secrete. There’s also an antidote that works fairly promising with Zylazine. It’s a Benzodiazepine antidote.
It’s called Flumasinil
Decades ago I was a veterinary tech. We had ketamine, Rompun(tm) which is xylazine, etc out on the counter in back all the time. No one ever thought of even touching the many vials of chemical goodness/badness/healing'ness I wonder if that same animal hospital has to be extra careful now.
7:52 Why in the world would they ban opiate substitution treatment?
Don’t they want people to stop taking the illicit drug?
Do any governments offer a similar 'treatment' program for alcoholics? Is there any facility that provides 'drunks' with a half dozen shots of vodka throughout the day, as part of some sort of 'addiction health study'?
@@StreetPreacherr Yes actually, there are some programs around the world where alcohol addicts are given controlled doses of alcohol, and it's fairly normal for people detoxing from alcohol to be given benzos as they hit the same same receptors in the brain and make the withdrawal symptoms far less deadly. Opioid substitution treatment is not some "addiction health study" as you so snarkily put it, it's been studied long before becoming a common treatment option and has proven to help most people.
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Alcoholics are given benzodiazepines for withdrawal, which work on the same receptors as alcohol, so, in essence, yes.
In fact if someone calls to get into rehab or any treatment program, they’re told to not stop drinking, because going cold turkey is very dangerous, and medical observation and intervention is necessary. Otherwise one can experience hallucinations, seizures, and at the very least uncontrollable shaking, sweating, and panic attacks. Opiate substitutions don’t get the patient high - they’re not just lowering their dose. They contain partial opiate agonist, so the brain thinks it’s still getting an opiate, coupled with a more powerful opiate antagonist, so the person doesn’t get any sort of dopamine reward.
@@StreetPreacherr I'd wager any health professional worth his wage would tell any hardcore alcoholic to not cut cold turkey since that has a risk to kill you so yes, they'll instruct you to taper off the booze gradually. Or offer you some with decreasing doses if you're bedridden.
In the worst cases of alcohol abuse, yes they might just do what you described above but largely alcohol and opiates are completely different cans of fish and should be treated as such.
@@StreetPreacherralso funnily enough there was a study conducted where they did forcibly feed people shots to maintain their maximum level of drunkenness below lethal to study delirium tremens.
This is why the war on drugs is stupid. Making heroin harder to get makes overdoses and death due to use more prevalent. Give people safe and clean heroin and the ability to go to rehab, and boom, you’ll save lives.
Says local heroin user
My aunt, a registered nurse in canada, has worked with krokodil addicts and her worst story involved such damage to the flesh and bones in the hands that fingers had fallen off before treatment and at least one came off during examination
This feels a little like a repeat lol. If you watch all your content on all your channels as I do then we've seen this one already lol.
I love Simon’s video you learn a lot in a short time. Ok a very short time.
I didn't know it was stronger. I thought it was a last resort for the addicts using
This is a re-upload right? But still will watch again coz Simon jst dscusses that good!
Just legalize Heroin! People will stop using unsafe and dangerous alternatives, when they have access to safe and legal Heroin. The extensive use of these kind of drugs is mostly due to some kind of trauma. It's medicine. Let's help people instead of stigmatizing them!
Trauma, trauma, trauma. Everyone’s got so much trauma in the West … 🤡😵💀
Is this a reupload? Didnt you already do a video on krokodil on one of your other channels?
Of maybe it was infographics, i have noticed that you guys and infographics channel seem to constantly upload the same subject matter within 1-2 weeks of eachother.
I thought I heard about this drug being abused in Philadelphia and New York? Isn't this also called the "Zombie Drug"?
That's tranq - this is different, but with the same results
That was bath salts
I feel like Simon covered this before. Is this a re-upload or did he cover this on one of his other many channels?
Im so glad I'm good on my pot
yeah cause pot doesnt have any bad side effects if abused or taken over a long time lol.
@adrianflo6481 well if you say so, I guess I'll just stop. 😅🤣😂
As bad as krokodil is it doesnt hold a candle to alcoholism and obesity, its all about perspective. But i assume you wrote that comment to make yourself feel better.
Im not against drugs. i smoke up too but i think its silly to make remarks as if the problem is the drugs and not the addiction.
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@@adrianflo6481 No one said that Weed has no negative effects, but it is no where close to krokodil. They shouldn't even be compared.
As a recovering addict i remember when this stuff found its way into my area. And sadly ill tell you from experience that if someone ODs on something thats what everyone wants. Glad i made it out and everyone else that did as well
I like how urinary retention is lumped in with low blood pressure and severe breathing problems lol
While it may sound inane, not being able to void your bladder causes the fluid retention to affect the kidneys which will get backed up. Could also lead to sepsis quickly. Actually a pretty messed up situation. :)
I have back issues and was told if I have some urinary retention to call an ambulance without delay. Not high blood pressure or breathing. It's very serious.
@@alantaylor2694autonomic dysreflexia?
Skip to 1:37 to get to the point
repost?
That's what I was thinking
Right? I swear I’ve already seen this.
Edit: yes! There was a short posted 3 months ago from the original video
man, I'm glad I'm addicted to chocolate and not some other stuff like in this video...
Yes a repost. Atleast simon consistently posting to this channel now bio is done
It sounds like you got your info from the Wikipedia page and slightly misunderstood it. The Ph is not 3, that is the top end, they state 'analysis of leftover solutions of "krokodil" in used syringes showed the pH was typically less than 3' In lab synthesis it is 1.15 +/- 0.15, full paper is on journal of Forensic Science international.
less than 3 means it's even more acidic... yikes...
This is just another example as to why drugs should be legalized and regulated. Opioid addiction is terrible, and you shouldn't use heroin or pills, but if it was regulated in similar ways that marijuana is in some US states than it would cut opioid related deaths dramatically because people would know exactly what they're getting and how strong it is. I see the war on drugs like alcohol prohibition in the 20s, it doesn't stop people, it just makes it more dangerous.
This is not. What it shows is that society does not need to be at a point where its people are using drugs to sedate themselves into escapism and compliance
Gambling is a tax on people bad at math.
Illegal drugs are illegal because they're harmful, not because the lawmakers are killjoys.
Maybe drugs are fascinating to people bad at statistics?
@@kerriwilson7732 drugs are fascinating to people not aware of the risk or in a sufficiently dark place that the risks may be damned.
I don't think drugs should be legalized my self, I do think usage shouldn't be treated as a crime though. Dealing should be the crime, punish the perp not the victim. If you treat possession for personal use or usage as a crime it'll discourage people from seeking help for no major benefit to anyone.
Red phosphorus does not come from match sticks, it is in the striker pad on the side of the box.
"All opioids are dangerous".. No, no, no! As with everything of that nature, it depends on dosage, purity and other things. Addiction is also a multi-factor issue. I would definitely argue that like anything that is medicine, opiods are perfectly fine used for their intended purpose, in the right dosage and for the right length of time. Don't demonise something just because you've been told it's bad.
They are dangerous if not dosed correctly.
@@juliac3933which is what he said.
You heard that at the funeral, right?
They're not perfectly fine, they carry major risks of addiction even in correct doses. Don't lie to yourself about it, be aware of the risns and have a plan to deal with the withdrawal once you get off it.
Cool vid, great job! Ive never seen an open door background i kept waiting for someone to shut it
Wait. I feel Simon has covered this before.
I was thinking that as well
@@williebauld1007 wonder if TH-cam content overlords banned it. Same as the purple drank one which was quite good as well.
@@bmstylee quite possibly, TH-cam does some strange things at times
Very informative, thank you.
Especially the fear mongering.
I've never been so grateful for my fear ot injection.
U can always sniff it 😉
@@whitemamba0089Is there a lore reason why you said that? Are you artistic?
@@brainz2 he said he's afraid of injections and is greatful for that so he's nvr tempted to try the drug but I just gave him a alternative way to do the drug by snorting it
I love how we know so much about drugs and the info we can show these kids
its insane what ppl put into their body, just to feel a high for a while 😬
So what flesh eating drug is better, tranq or krocodil?
This is a fucking nightmare. We shouldn't solely try to stomp out drugs. What we need to do is figure WHY people need drugs in the first place. Get these people therapy & proper medical help!
YES! It really annoyed me when Simon said "all opiods are dangerous." No, dependency and addiction are dangerous and they are incredibly complicated things. Don't blame the drug. The drug does wonders in the right circumstances and the right context.
I think a small part of the reason people do illegal drugs is for the thrill of doing something illegal.
Spot on 👍
@@stigolumpyvery well said 👌 Simon can be extremely arrogantly ignorant, it boils my piss if I'm completely honest.
@@JonnyMack33 I love his videos but yep, I absolutely agree. Love the phrase "it boils my piss" as well haha!
'Dude what's wrong with you?" "I'm on drug's man." "Oh having a good time?" "No!"
FINALLY… BEEN WAITING FIR GHIS MAN TO TALK ABOUT THIS FOR AGES. ✊🏾💯
He's talked about this before on this channel this is a re-upload because I remember watching this and remember the thumbnail
I am a healthcare worker in the USA. We had a pt who ordered a synthetic benzo called phenazepam, online, from Russia; after one use the pt's mind was completely gone and i dont think the pt will ever recover. The pt's family said the pt was very smart and intelligent before the pt tried the drug.
I have very little sympathy for people who use this stuff. Addiction is a complicated beast, I will agree with that point, and withdrawal is absolutely awful, I don't argue that, but when you inject something like this, you seriously don't care if you live, so I don't care if you die.
This man has 100,000 youtube channels, with 3,000,000 more on the way.
And you've subscribed to them all
Havent you already made a video about this?
Every time Big Nanny tries to control what people do to their bodies, they make the problem worse. Look no further than alcohol prohibition. People were going blind and dying from bad booze.
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Searched it up and looked at the images for a milisecond, didnt even get a proper look at it but im still traumatized mane... the internets a horrible place