ro4eva
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The drug which has been given the nickname 'Krokodil' is an extremely impure version of the semi-synthetic Opioid known as Desomorphine synthesized from Codeine combined with a mixture of various chemicals (which themselves are impure to begin with).
The largest user base happens to be in Russia, which, is also facing an enormous Diacetylmorphine (Heroin) epidemic.
Typically, people who end up turning to Krokodil are Heroin addicts who can no longer afford their habit. Tragically, their life expectancy hovers around 2 to 3 years once they resort to the homemade drug.
Even more tragic however, is the fact that in Russia, Opioid Maintenance Treatment is completely illegal, meaning that there are no Methadone and/or Buprenorphine Clinics available to these poor individuals. And I'm willing to wager my left testicle that, if MMT and/or BMT would be available to them, that many (if not the majority) of them would surely opt for that rather than witness their limbs rotting away as if they're suffering from a mutated form of Necrotizing Fasciitis.
The Russian government claims that there is no empirical evidence that MMT is an effective and efficient method of aiding their Opioid-addicted constituents towards some semblance of productive normality, which is frankly infuriating to behold after the needless Krokodil epidemic which is killing countless Russian men and women.
Krokodil indeed may be numero uno when comparing its acute and long term health risks with those of other common recreational drugs, however, I think it's vitally important to consider the argument that this insidious substance would not have contributed anywhere near the amount of deaths in the past decade if only Putin and his fellow gangster-duma-comrades would swallow their collective, vodka-stenched pride and, for the sake of far too many to count, allow MMT and/or BMT clinics to open across the Russian motherland.
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Also, if there is indeed such thing as a "gateway drug," I strongly contend that it is not THC/Cannabis/Hashish, but rather Ethanol/Ethyl Alcohol/Booze.
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Furthermore, Methamphetamine may (among other things) be especially toxic to a consumer's brain, which is precisely the reason why I question its status as a Schedule II substance (and Cocaine as well for that matter).
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Do you guys like my equal sign-dotted lines? I think they're incredibly sexy. You stay classy San Francisco.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: Where would PCP be on Sir Nutt's list? And what of Jenkem? I hear that the Hydrogen Sulfide it oozes outwards lowers a user's blood pressure, and Peter Hitchens ought to know.
The largest user base happens to be in Russia, which, is also facing an enormous Diacetylmorphine (Heroin) epidemic.
Typically, people who end up turning to Krokodil are Heroin addicts who can no longer afford their habit. Tragically, their life expectancy hovers around 2 to 3 years once they resort to the homemade drug.
Even more tragic however, is the fact that in Russia, Opioid Maintenance Treatment is completely illegal, meaning that there are no Methadone and/or Buprenorphine Clinics available to these poor individuals. And I'm willing to wager my left testicle that, if MMT and/or BMT would be available to them, that many (if not the majority) of them would surely opt for that rather than witness their limbs rotting away as if they're suffering from a mutated form of Necrotizing Fasciitis.
The Russian government claims that there is no empirical evidence that MMT is an effective and efficient method of aiding their Opioid-addicted constituents towards some semblance of productive normality, which is frankly infuriating to behold after the needless Krokodil epidemic which is killing countless Russian men and women.
Krokodil indeed may be numero uno when comparing its acute and long term health risks with those of other common recreational drugs, however, I think it's vitally important to consider the argument that this insidious substance would not have contributed anywhere near the amount of deaths in the past decade if only Putin and his fellow gangster-duma-comrades would swallow their collective, vodka-stenched pride and, for the sake of far too many to count, allow MMT and/or BMT clinics to open across the Russian motherland.
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Also, if there is indeed such thing as a "gateway drug," I strongly contend that it is not THC/Cannabis/Hashish, but rather Ethanol/Ethyl Alcohol/Booze.
==============================================
Furthermore, Methamphetamine may (among other things) be especially toxic to a consumer's brain, which is precisely the reason why I question its status as a Schedule II substance (and Cocaine as well for that matter).
==============================================
Do you guys like my equal sign-dotted lines? I think they're incredibly sexy. You stay classy San Francisco.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: Where would PCP be on Sir Nutt's list? And what of Jenkem? I hear that the Hydrogen Sulfide it oozes outwards lowers a user's blood pressure, and Peter Hitchens ought to know.
