GROSS ~ Flesh-Eating Drugs Hit U.S., Russia

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A new report being published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology finds six patients who "developed purple-colored patches of necrotic skin on their ears, nose, cheeks and other parts of their body," apparently thanks to levamisole-cut coke. And, they say, that's just "the tip of the iceberg in a looming public health problem"!

According to the Department of Justice, some 70 percent of cocaine (most of it distributed in and around New York and L.A.) is cut with levamisole. We'd say, Who cares? Doesn't this just mean that every investment banker in New York will lose both ears? but our understanding is that i-bankers have moved on to Adderall and the ground-up finger bones of poor people. If you are in a bad rotting-flesh situation, we recommend switching drug dealers, which apparently worked for one patient the doctors wrote about in their report.

Meanwhile in Russia, the government and medical authorities are agitating against "krokodil" ("Крокодил" or "crocodile"), an insane newish opiate cooked by addicts in their kitchens out of "gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous" plus the key ingredient, codeine. Why is it called "crocodile"? Why, because bursting blood vessels at the injection site (which can be anywhere on the body! Even the forehead!) turns the skin "greenish and scaly."

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more here - http://gawker.com/5814260/flesh+eating-drugs-hit-us-russia