
What Is Desomorphine?

sounds LIKELY
Detailed Answer:
There are several possibilities, but krokadil is an altered form of heroin processed by iodination. The residual iodine and nitrogen compounds that linger in it are likely to give an odor. The iodine will be medicinal in smell. The nitrogen compounds would be fishy, or sour or could be described by musty by some (mostly pretty foul). It MIGHT be krokadil. Furthermore, there isn't ONE krokadil. It is a series of different reactions to increase the potency of heroin with variations at each step. It doesn't necessarily look different from normal heroin, but if it did it would be less clean looking (tan to brown).
the other possibilites aren't good either. The heroin is usually cut with very benign stuff like various sugars (testable by taste). But a wide variety of stuff has been used to adulterate the heroin. Furthermore the synthetic process that makes heroin from opium is not performed in a "good laboratory process" setting and can produce side reactions and unknown contaminants. More steps are used to make krokadil with more chemicals and more side reactions. All of these are going to be toxic to blood vessels. It is USUAL for veins to be injured by injection of intravenous narcotics, but much more occurs with krokadil. Furthermore, it is not rare for some of the contaminants to get into the heart and damage heart valves.
Basically, you KNOW this mixture is even more risky than the usual heroin.


Happy to advise.
Detailed Answer:
Possession and sale of narcotics is against the law, but disposing of it probably wouldn't be prosecuted. I hear about several cases where someone has brought drugs to a law enforcement agency and it never ends well for the person bringing them.
1) don't get involved with illegal activities, and do not tell law enforcement of the illegal activities in which you are doing / have participated in.
2) Treatment for addiction is a lot more straightforward than the textbooks realize. There's avoiding the obvious situations/people/contexts that make it hard to turn down drugs, then there's substituting methadone or suboxone IN A TREATMENT MILIEU for other narcotics, and then, there's transformation. Same brain functions work for addiction cues and the feelings of dread and avoidance--these can be transformed. Either by well-known brainwashing techniques of getting a group/cult/religion of people all insanely devoted to an ideal, joining and participating in the group. We call this '12-step programs'. OR....remembering the most awful feelings associated with drugs (google images of krakodil if you don't have any feelings that already come to mind) and each time you have a craving/trigger, replay the craving/trigger but with the bad feeling associated with it. Quickly, the craving/trigger instead triggers bad feelings.
3) how do you stop a drug dealer? having someone ElSE drop a dime on him?
it's a fraught problem because it will lead back to you and you are engaged in illegal activities and, it can get complicated. Cannot advise on legal matters since I have no more knowledge than you do.


Teachable moment.
Detailed Answer:
First, there is the question of solidness of information. I agree that it is really suspicious for krakodil but that isn't quite the same as knowing. In clinical drug development we give drugs all the time that we suspect could have dangers (we minimize them; we balance the disorder to the drug like giving dangerous chemotherapy only to those dying of cancer and needing hope) but we don't KNOW we are going to harm someone. You don't know it was krakodil.
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and statistically the odds are very much against it.
BUT
1) drug dealers cut heroin with other things that are bad as a general rule anyway.
Talc powder is bad, not as bad, but will cause scars.
2) run the numbers.
"Most Common Drugs Involved in Overdoses. Of the 22,767 deaths relating to pharmaceutical overdose in 2013, 16,235 (71.3%) involved opioid analgesics (also called opioid pain relievers or prescription painkillers), and 6,973 (30.6%) involved benzodiazepines.8 (Some deaths include more than one type of drug.)"
problems with narcotics in general are at least a thousand times worse than krokodil. "slipped that stuff tomorrow and that would be the end" was always a very high risk from the narcotics which have zero quality control in any case. Krokodil is an extreme example of a basic underlying dangerous situation.
Good time to get out.
oh, and.....
you will want to know about this.
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