Hide your kids and your wife…looks like the flesh-eating zombie drug Krokodil is here to stay.
Just days after reports that the deadly drug reached suburban Chicago, a spokeswoman for the Utah Department of Health said that it too had encountered two cases of users ravaged by Krokodil.
The department, however, did not record the cases because use of the drug is not considered to be a disease. But turns out users of the drug, which is dubbed the “poor man’s meth” aren’t even aware that they are using the noxious cocktail of codeine and gasoline.
Barbara Insley Crouch, the executive director of the Utah Poison Control Center said that the majority of users believe they are buying heroin – when in fact they are injecting the rancid concoction into the bodies.
“What they do is de-fat tissues,” she said Wednesday to Fox 13 Now.
“If you spilled gasoline on your skin, you get a little burn from it as it erodes the fat from your tissues. Imagine it internally doing to the same thing.”
In short, the drug eats the body from the inside out, causing horrific skin damage.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail | PHOTO SOURCE: Dr. Allen Harris
