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Krokodil is a designer drug created to be a cheap alternative to heroin. It causes such extreme gangrene and abscesses that a user’s skin may come off. When that happens, you can see the person’s muscles and bones. It rots the skin from the outside in. In this picture, the bones inside a person’s mouth are being exposed, thanks to Krokodil use.

PMA—a drug that also goes by the name Dr. Death, Chicken Yellow, and Pink Ecstasy—causes nausea, vomiting, and hallucinations. Its ef- fects are unpredictable , though. Some people are more sensitive to it than others. It also takes a while to take effect, so sometimes people take a dose—and then take another one because they think the first one didn’t work. Then they end up dead.

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