The Deadly Drug Desomorphine a.k.a Krokodil

November 13, 1934, Krokodil was briefly manufactured and marketed by a Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche and was a patented drug. They called the drug Permonid. This drug was abandoned as a commercial product for its short life and extremely addictive nature. In the early 2000s, this deadly drug was brought back in Russia with the street name krokodil, a home-brewed heroin replacment that takes about thirty minutes to manufacture from codeine pills and other substances that were mentioned on the front page. The home brewing of this drug includes the use of impurities and toxic substances that have lead to some horrific consequences for users. Krokodil which is Russian for crocodile, is named after one of the drug's major side effect, the greenish and scaly appearance of the damaged and rotting skin of users. Look at the Huffington Post video report and you will be quickly convinced never to try this drug. The video can be found on the home page of this website.