Photo: Irina Pavlova, a recovering krokodil addict, at the Chichevo rehab center in Russia, rocking Artiom Tiomkin — the baby of another resident — on June 13, 2011. Mae Ryan for TIMEThe Curse Of The Crocodile: Russia's Deadly Designer Drug -- Time
The new arrivals at the drug rehab center in Chichevo, a tiny village that is a two hours' drive east of Moscow, are usually given two weeks without chores to recover from the nausea, pain and sleeplessness of withdrawal. After that, between Bible study and prayer (the center is run by Pentecostals), they have to start chopping firewood, hauling water from the village well or otherwise helping around the old wooden house. But a lot more leeway was allowed in the case of Irina Pavlova, the only resident at the center who is addicted to krokodil, or crocodile, Russia's deadliest new designer drug.
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My Comment: You would think that the world already has enough drugs out there .... sighhhh .... think again. And my prediction .... because of its low cost, it will probably become very popular among addicts sooner rather than later.
