right? it's horrific and the stories i've heard about the users are just as bad.
one woman who was addicted to Krokodil started seeing a demon in the mirror watching everything she did so she began to write backwards so the demon couldn't understand, and she did this almost immediately. when she was on her own she'd be visited by people that only she could see, and this was while she was sober. because she had damaged her mental health she was constantly in 'a different place', and it wasn't a good place. it was all in her head obviously but it must have been fucking terrifying. on top of all that her flesh and bones were rotting due to the drug.
here are some of the physical effects:
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The large volume of tissue damage/infection is what gained the drug its nickname of the flesh-eating drug, as homemade versions made by suppliers and users contain multiple impurities and toxic substances that lead to such tissue damage/infection (the pure form of the drug itself would not cause this damage).[15] Gangrene, phlebitis, thrombosis (blood clots), pneumonia, meningitis, septicaemia (blood infection), osteomyelitis (bone infection), liver & kidney damage, brain damage and HIV/AIDS are also common amongst users of krokodil.[12] Sometimes, the user will miss the vein when injecting the desomorphine, creating abscess and causing death of the flesh surrounding the entry-point
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