You would have to be crazy or very desperate to use this stuff....

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    You would have to be crazy or very desperate to use this stuff. Maybe some unscrupulous suppliers are sometimes replacing ice and meth etc with it without the user knowing.

    Apparently the pure form of the drug, desomorphine, doesn't have the nasty toxicity and was used in hospitals for many years as a more potent form of morphine. The toxicity problem occurs due to contamination with iodine and red phosphorus when the drug is "cooked" up in back yard operations.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desomorphine

    "Illicitly produced desomorphine typically contains large amounts of toxic substances as a result of being "cooked" and used without any significant effort to remove the byproducts and leftovers from synthesis. Injecting any such mixture can cause serious damage of the skin, blood vessels, bone and muscles, sometimes requiring limb amputation in long-term users.[7] Causes of this damage are from iodine and phosphorus (and other toxic substances) that are present after synthesis. The large volume of tissue damage/infection is what gained the drug its nickname of the flesh-eating drug, as homemade versions made by suppliers and users contain multiple impurities and toxic substances that lead to such tissue damage/infection (the pure form of the drug itself would not cause this damage).[15] Gangrene, phlebitis, thrombosis (blood clots), pneumonia, meningitis, septicaemia (blood infection), osteomyelitis (bone infection), liver & kidney damage, brain damage and HIV/AIDS are also common amongst users of krokodil.[16] Sometimes, the user will miss the vein when injecting the desomorphine, creating abscess and causing death of the flesh surrounding the entry-point."
 
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