U.S. teen's lesions identified as krokodil abuse symptoms by Mexican physicians

by Ben Reilly Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:56 pm

Warning -- rather graphic photo at source.

Health authorities in Mexico have confirmed a 17-year-old patient believed to have injected the drug krokodil was from Houston, America.

Dr. Enrico Sotelo, the head of the council on addictions in the western state of Jalisco said the patient is a Houston resident who came to Mexico to visit the Pacific coast resort city of Puerto Vallarta, where she has relatives, in November.

Shortly after arriving she checked into a local health clinic for digestive problems, and it was there doctors detected flesh lesions associated with krokodil use.

Sotelo said the unidentified patient told authorities she had used the drug in Houston. Her current condition is unknown because she did not return to the health clinic there for any further treatment.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mexico-confirms-krokodil-drug-case-was-us-patient-9036408.html

by Guest Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:02 pm

It sounds absolutely horrendous:

It is formed of a combination of crushed codeine pills, gasoline, cooking oil, iodine, paint thinner, lighter fluid and other toxic ingredients.

Krokodil is also highly addictive and short-lasting – meaning many addicts exist in an on-going cycle of drug consumption and drug preparation. It acts as a morphine substitute but is ten times stronger than the morphine currently used in medical practice. It has a quicker onset of action and more sedative effects and causes death of muscle and soft tissues at the site of injection.

What will people do to themselves next? And how do they get on it. They don't just wake up one day and decided to use it, it must be around them for them to even think of it.

by Beekeeper Sat Jan 04, 2014 2:56 pm

FOR some strange reason, I can rarely feel any sympathy for people who voluntarily choose to do this kind of damage to themselves...

SOUNDS like much the same defeatist and self-destructive mentality and search for cheap escapist thrills that has teens raiding their parents drink cabinets, sculling several "energy drinks" in a row for a quick caffeine buzz, feeling so grown up when smoking grass or popping eccies, or even "upping the ante" by sniffing glue or petrol or trying roadside weeds or "synthetic" drugs (e.g. kronk, krokodil, and the likes..).

IT could be different if somebody had a drug forced onto them, or ingested it unknowingly through a "spiked" drink or food. BUT, that clearly wasn't the case here, as this girl has used it voluntarily.. pale

(SASSY'S final idiotic comment above really does go to show that she has absolutely NO idea of just how the REAL world goes round, outside of her cloistered little existence ~ obviously never heard of teen' peer groups, schoolyard/street rumours and 'common knowledge" among friends ~ as if ".. it must be around them to even think of it." Just how clueless must one be to spout such ignorant nonsense these days ! )

by Guest Sat Jan 04, 2014 4:26 pm

So is the condition curable?

by Ben Reilly Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:30 pm

Shady wrote:So is the condition curable?

Depends on what you mean by that. Will this girl live? She could, if she stops taking krokodil and gets some intensive medical treatment, but parts of her skin are literally dead and that's not coming back short of some sort of transplant or highly experimental procedure.

As to the points Shady and Beekeeper make, I feel the same way when I hear about a child dying in a locked car due to the heat; how does a person not know you don't do that? -- I think the two important things here are a thrill-seeking personality and abject ignorance about the drug.

by Guest Sat Jan 04, 2014 5:52 pm

Ben_Reilly wrote:
Shady wrote:So is the condition curable?

Depends on what you mean by that. Will this girl live? She could, if she stops taking krokodil and gets some intensive medical treatment, but parts of her skin are literally dead and that's not coming back short of some sort of transplant or highly experimental procedure.

As to the points Shady and Beekeeper make, I feel the same way when I hear about a child dying in a locked car due to the heat; how does a person not know you don't do that? -- I think the two important things here are a thrill-seeking personality and abject ignorance about the drug.

Exactly. As I said, it must be around them, so they must be seeing people take it and are probably egged on by their peers. With so many new drugs 'doing the rounds', they probably don't know about the real consequences until they are hooked, by which time, it's too late.

by Guest Sat Jan 04, 2014 6:08 pm

It can get much worse than that, I saw a pic of a Russian girl whose skin had completely fallen off her arm, leaving only bone.

by Guest Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:28 pm

So is this drug classed as illegal & if so,would druggies still use it if it was legalised?

by veya_victaous Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:39 pm

@shady
some would. I don't think it is very common. Some of these more unusal substitue drugs beceome availble only because the real thing isn't.
Never heard of it here but you can get all the normal stuff here pretty easy (except Cocaine) so some of these weirder ones just never make it here.

by Ben Reilly Mon Jan 06, 2014 4:16 pm

At the end of the day, I think krokodil is an excellent argument for making some of the softer drugs legal.

by Guest Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:48 pm

I recon its a good demonstration of Dawin in action. Perhaps its one way of waking up The ID crowd??????

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