"Krokodil was made by cooking codeine with various ingredients including red phosphorous, hydrochloric acid, paint thinner, gasoline, and iodine. The result was desomorphine, a designer opiate that is an order of magnitude more potent than morphine itself. Because of the caustic components used to manufacture the compound, krokodil produced such horrendous soft tissue injuries when injected that it was almost invariably labelled as “flesh-eating”
