# Addictive drug "Krokodil" AKA Desomorphine rotting flesh off addicts bones- Warning GRAPHIC website

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**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addictive-drug-krokodil-aka-desomorphine-rotting-flesh-off-addicts-bones-warning-graphic-website/601951/3 "2011-11-05T13:40:03Z")

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I’ve seen it mentioned a few places, and it had a prominent place in the SDMB thread [Do Drugs Make You Ugly?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=616347&highlight=Krokodil)

"Do not Google ‘Krokodil’ " is the advice I’ve seen in all of these places, and from the nauseated responses of those who did it anyway it’s pretty good advice.

> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> ISTM that it isn’t Desomorphine that’s causing the problems, it’s the homemade version that the junkies making. If I’m reading the links properly, it’s that they’re making it quickly in their own kitchens and injecting it without purifying it at all that’s causing their flesh to rot off.

From the thread I linked:

> [@Do Drugs Make You Ugly?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-drugs-make-you-ugly/589075/40):
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> According to Time, fabrication of Krokodil uses “gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorus which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes.” Not at all good for you.

I rather suspect that the effects of this stuff would be hideous even if you completely removed the desomorphine from it.

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