Krokodil: The drug that eats junkies

[Bar Kochba]

URL: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/230697-Krokodil-The-drug-that-eats-junkies

This one hit home. It brought a tear to my eye, because I identify with these poor people. I know the type of thinking that drives them to continue injecting this poison even thought their flesh is rotting off of their bones. In the distant past I have had dangerous abscesses on my arms yet soldiered on with my addiction because it (the drug) was literally the only reason I was living.

What to do about it? It is so hard to plant a seed in a hopeless addicts' head that there is more to life than ripping and running. The heart can become covered in scar tissue so quickly that nearly nothing gets through.

There is always a choice, of course, but we all know that mis-education, upbringing, narcissism, and abuse conspire to lead young people down the easy path of negativity and self-absorption.

This is very sad.

 

[AdamJM]

another drug with less savage effects but the same out come has surfaced recently in brazil called oxi/rust. addicts are being driven to use these substances as the price of more commercial class a's has skyrocketed. it has made me wonder tho, that dealers can only profit from drugs is if their users stay alive long enough for them to profit as too much death is bad for business. with these drugs many die within a year. but considering the times we are living in and the and the extremes in which users are now going to feed there addiction i think that maybe there is a connection or a mirroring of sorts in that the worse the reality of life is, the more extreme lengths people are taking to escape from it.