Krokodil Flesh Eating Drug In City Near Arizona Border

Flesh Eating Drug In City Near Arizona Border

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Krokodil In Nogales: Mexican Officials Report Flesh-Eating Drug In City Near Arizona Border

The Huffington Post  | by  Andres Jauregui

Mexican public health officials have confirmed the first case of krokodil in the city of Nogales, which borders Arizona.

In January, Leticia Amparano Gamez, the state’s director of mental health, said that an adult male who sought medical attentioncame in with skin lesions associated with intravenous use of krokodil.

Krokodil, which was first used in Russia, ismade by cooking crushed codeine pills with household chemicals like paint thinner. The homemade drug contains impurities that damage the user’s circulatory system, leaving scaly green scabs and causing flesh to rot off the bone.

Although numerous cases of krokodil use in the United States have been reported since September 2013, apart from two cases in 2004, the Drug Enforcement Administration has yet to confirm the presence of desomorphine in the United States.

According to experts, part of the reason why the drug hasn’t taken hold in the U.S. is because it’s harder to get codeine than it is to buy cheap heroin.

“Relatively accessible and inexpensive heroin, make krokodil production and use in the United States highly unlikely,” Dr. Michael Lynch, medical director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center stated.

Heroin use has its own perils, and it’s become even more deadly of late, as evidenced byfentanyl-spiked batches that have been linked to the overdose deaths of more than 50 people since September.

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