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Horrific images of users emerge as first cases of [Krokodil] reported in Arizona
Daily Mail [UK] ^
| 25 September 2013
| James Nye
Posted on 09/25/2013 9:42:52 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The first cases of a terrifying new drug called 'Krokodil' that eats flesh from the inside out, is flammable and leaves addicts with reptilian-like skin have been reported this week in Arizona - and the state fears the beginning of an epidemic.
Popular in Russia, Krokodil is homemade, is three-times cheaper than heroin and created by mixing codeine with gasoline or oil, filtering it and then injecting the rancid concoction into the users body.
Banner's Poison Control Center most likely encountered the drug when two addicts arrived in emergency rooms with their flesh hanging off their body, exposing bone or with skin resembling that of a crocodile, hence its name.
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Krokodil is some seriously evil poison. Luckily, we, the taxpayers, will have the privilege of paying for healing its users.
To: Slings and Arrows
Nothing I haven’t seen in the political discourse, happenstance emanating from the White Hut.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:44:43 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst Is Yet To come)
To: Slings and Arrows
If seeing those images doesn’t deter people, then I’m not sure sending paramilitary assassination squads to shoot grannies in their beds at 3AM would deter them either. But we keep trying!
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:45:16 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: coloradan
On the bright side, there’ll be someone for meth addicts to look down on.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:46:56 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Stupid people are supposed to die in horrifyingly stupid ways.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:47:03 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Looks like something straight out of the X Files.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:47:08 PM PDT
by
Arthurio
To: Lurker
Stupid people are supposed to die in horrifyingly stupid ways.Well, no-one can say they didn't read the script.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:49:05 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
This could possibly end our worries about Obamacare and welfare in one fell swoop.
lol
just kidding
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:49:25 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Slings and Arrows
Why am I learning about this from the British press? (rhetorical question)
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:49:49 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Don't twerk me, Bro!)
To: Arthurio
I was thinking Warhammer 40,000. Papa Nurgle put some serious work into that one.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:50:05 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Why would anyone inject anything mixed with gasoline?
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:50:58 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: Slings and Arrows
>> On the bright side, there’ll be someone for meth addicts to look down on.
You’re sick as all get-out.
I respect that quality.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:51:22 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: GeronL
Gee, you think these guys will be buying their insurance from the exchanges?
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:51:23 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Irenic
Why would anyone inject anything mixed with gasoline?To get high. But hey, victimless crime.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:52:16 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Irenic
>> Why would anyone inject anything mixed with gasoline?
Hey, gasoline costs more than heroin; it *must* be good, right?
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:52:45 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: clintonh8r
If you’re asking the question, you know the answer.
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:52:55 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Nervous Tick
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:53:31 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
If they want to get high, why not only take the codeine? Gasoline?! Gasoline?! You’ve got to be chittin’ me. Gasoline...wow....
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:54:42 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: Slings and Arrows
To get high. But hey, victimless crime.Now that Obamacare is here, there is no such thing as a victimless drug crime.
To: Nervous Tick
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posted on
09/25/2013 9:55:58 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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