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Designers want you as human guinea pigs! It is often a clear liquid, but can appear in other Before medicines can be sold legally in the forms. It slows a user’s breathing and heart rate. United States, they must go through extensive Alcohol magnifies the effect. Users may have testing. It is expensive and can take years. difficulty remembering what happened while Carefully manufactured and controlled doses are they were on it. Overdoses can be fatal.
usually given first to animals. Dangerous short and
long-term side effects are assessed. Interactions
with other drugs are checked.
Now think about an illicit designer drug such as 2C-E, a hallucinogen sometimes called Europa. It is cooked up in an underground “lab” (perhaps an abandoned shack) by a “chemist” who may have no more than the barest understanding
of what they are doing. Quality control may be non-existent. Dosages may be measured and cut by dealers with even less knowledge. Would you want to be a guinea pig? Many are, often with tragic results. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that in Blaine, Minnesota in 2011, 11 young people at a spring break party snorted powdered 2C-E from a coffee table. Soon they were vomiting and in pain. By the time police arrived, a number had fled the scene, but collapsed or passed out before getting very far from the house. One person, a 19-year-old father, died after being taken to an area hospital.
Rohypnol: This sedative goes by names such as roofies, rope and roach. It is usually found in pill form, though it can also be ground into a powder. It has effects similar to GHB. Together the two are sometimes called “date rape” drugs because they can be used as an aid in rendering someone vulnerable to criminal assault, and possibly even causing them to forget what happened to them.
Can refer to a number of different drugs which users often take at dance parties or clubs.
Krokodil is the street name for Desomorphine, a dirty cousin of morphine. The drug’s primary ingredient is codeine an over-the-counter pain killer. Addicts commonly mix codeine with iodine and red phosphorus in a process similar to the manufacture of methamphetamine. Other toxins like gasoline, paint thinner and hydrochloric acid may also be part of the mix. Heroin addicts sometimes switch to krokodil because it is cheaper and the effects are similar though not
as long lasting.
Club Drugs
MDMA: This stimulant is known by many names, including ecstasy, X and more recently Molly. It gives the user a sense of energy and euphoria. The effects typically last a few hours, and can end with a “crash” of depression and exhaustion. MDMA tablets or powder often contain impurities which can cause unpredictable side effects. Combining the drug with alcohol or other drugs can cause dangerous interactions. Reactions to MDMA can include anxiety, dehydration, teeth clenching, nausea and elevated body temperature, which in some cases leads to death.
Krokodil gets its nickname from the “rotting” at the injection site. The skin becomes greenish and scaly, like a crocodile’s, as blood vessels burst and the surrounding tissue dies. Gangrene and amputations are a common result, while porous bone tissue is disintegrated up by the drug’s acidity. The life expectancy of a krokodil addict
is less than two to three years.
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GHB: This sedative goes by names such as Georgia home boy and grievous bodily harm.
Ketamine: Sometimes called Special K or simply K, this animal tranquilizer is usually a clear liquid or white powder. In higher doses it has hallucinogenic properties and can render the user unable to move (“going in the k-hole”) until the effects wear off.
Krokodil Designer Drug Spotlight:
Horrifying Flesh-Eating drug!