"...As typically happens in Russia, Pavlova began her drug use as a teenager shooting a substance called khanka, a tarlike opiate cooked from poppy bulbs, then graduated to heroin and finally, at the age of 27, switched to krokodil, because it has roughly the same effect as heroin but is at least three times cheaper and extremely easy to make. The active component is codeine, a widely sold over-the-counter painkiller that is not toxic on its own. But to produce krokodil, whose medical name is desomorphine, addicts mix it with ingredients including gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes. In 2010, between a few hundred thousand and a million people, according to various official estimates, were injecting the resulting substance into their veins in Russia, so far the only country in the world to see the drug grow into an epidemic..."
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Addiction to pills and designer drugs is growing into a huge problem worldwide. Looking at the US, the addiction to painkillers, which are just as strong as Heroine, is becoming an epidemic problem, if it's not already.
The Health crisis over this issue is devastating. People need to be more informed about this.
ReplyDeleteJust in FL alone over the last 2 years there has been a crackdown on pill mills, leading Rick Scott to finally succumb to signing the pill mill bill.
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