# Do Drugs Make You Ugly?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 14, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-drugs-make-you-ugly/589075 "2011-07-14T23:56:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-drugs-make-you-ugly/589075/40 "2011-07-16T06:39:23Z")

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> [@sparky\_1](#):
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> Correct. I recall that in cooking up the drug, something is added that is essentially poison, though I forget what (my brain furiously tried to wipe all knowledge of that drug from my memory).
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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.

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