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The active component is codeine, a widely sold over-the-counter painkiller that is not toxic on its own. But to produce krokodil, whose medical name is desomorphine, addicts mix it with ingredients including gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes. I Why the hell would they do that?

Seems like it's not the codeine, a well tried and tested prescription drug, which is the culprit, but all the other stuff. Why would they mix those things into it?

This reminds me of something that happened recently here. We could buy dextromethorphan as cough medicine both in pill and liquid form. Someone started cutting MDMA pills with this stuff, and allegedly some people died (I doubt very much that the deaths had anything whatsoever to do with the dextromethorphan). This was reported by our sensationalist press, and because our politicians are complete retards, they decided to ban the drug !

The result is that now we have to use diphenhydramine as cough medicine, and it has all kinds of nasty side effects, as an antihistamine, and it's especially incompatible with certain other drugs. Quit a step back from the relatively benign dextromethorphan. And it can be used as a recreational drug too, if one desires to do so. Heck, I could go to my physician and get a prescription for opium cough medicine, if I just say I have a nasty cough. So what's the point?

This seems like this, accusing a relatively harmless drug, when it's cut with all kinds of nasty shit. I just can't imagine why they do it? I actually could easily believe that Mary is right in this case.