Addicts who suffer financially will not hesitate to use their last rubble (Russian currency) on their bad habits. However, many will settle for something a little more in their price range. When times get tough krokodil is the drug one goes to for it gives its users similar effects to that of heroin and costs much cheaper, leading it to also be associated as “the poor mans drug”. In fact, in 2011 anecdotal reports from Russia suggested that ten tablets of over the counter codeine, which happens to be the main kick in krokodil, could be purchased for 120 Russian rubles or $3.71 US dollars (Erowid 2013). The amount of krokodil produced with 120 rubbles is equivalent to that of 500 rubbles worth of heroin –making it Russia’s
Addicts who suffer financially will not hesitate to use their last rubble (Russian currency) on their bad habits. However, many will settle for something a little more in their price range. When times get tough krokodil is the drug one goes to for it gives its users similar effects to that of heroin and costs much cheaper, leading it to also be associated as “the poor mans drug”. In fact, in 2011 anecdotal reports from Russia suggested that ten tablets of over the counter codeine, which happens to be the main kick in krokodil, could be purchased for 120 Russian rubles or $3.71 US dollars (Erowid 2013). The amount of krokodil produced with 120 rubbles is equivalent to that of 500 rubbles worth of heroin –making it Russia’s