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Desomorphine. How a flesh-eating drug containing paint thinner and phosphorous is causing a global crisis

Desomorphine. How a flesh-eating drug containing paint thinner and phosphorous is causing a global crisis

Desomorphine has been in the news a lot lately. Never heard of it? That’s quite possible. But you may well have heard its street name: “Krokodil”. However you know it, it’s a cheap substitute for heroin that has been widely branded as a “flesh-eating zombie drug” – and it’s bad news. (The Independent, UK, 13.11.2018)

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/flesh-eating-drug-krokodil-desomorphine-heroin-substitute-russia-a8621641.html