How Russia Created the World’s Worst Street Drug | The War on Drugs

[@VICE]

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[@Loveiswhatweneed-mx6tb]

Hello dear vice reporters ! could you please tell us about the biological research laboratories that work with very dangerous who are from germany in cooperation with germany america ? Im from Germany and im very scared of our politicians… They got something to hide, Germany is only lies to his people !

[@JayDeMan333]

More anti russian propaganda!

[@Loveiswhatweneed-mx6tb]

@@JayDeMan333 which propaganda ? The WHO tells to Ukraine to destroy every laboratory … its all propaganda from the west , Germany , USA…

[@contendhay647]

@@JayDeMan333 More anti ukrainian propaganda!

[@whyaddnamehere]

In November, I'll be celebrating 10 years free from opioids. I chose to go cold turkey at 1st. THIS WAS A MISTAKE! I was hospitalized 2x's trying to get through withdrawals. I gave up and asked help from my doctor. Thanks to methadone I was able to fight my addiction. When it was safe, I was slowly taken off methadone. I am so happy that I was able to reach out for help and am still clean today thanks to it.

[@_killingjoke88]

How did you deal with Methadone withdrawals ? I tried to taper off but it was not easy.

[@jamesgilbert91]

@@_killingjoke88 if you can switch to bupenorphrine & then kratom

[@oiinahgiiusadurrybrahchuck7209]

Glad for you! Congratulations fam. Stay keeping head strong, you got this :)

[@kylerittenhouse3161]

VICE promotes drug taking. So do most liberals. I totally support liberals using drugs and getting addicted to them.

[@_killingjoke88]

@@jamesgilbert91 thank you, I have considered this

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

Who else thought it'd be about Krokodil?

[@stumblingmumbler]

I thought so too

[@tombstonejones9581]

That's why I clicked

[@hagstruan1140]

Very first thought.

[@BASE5NYC]

I could watch Krokodili videos for days! Amazing.

[@VGI4NI]

Yea I sure did

[@thecheeze9001]

I remember that Krokodil episode pretty clearly, it’s one of the first Vice videos I’ve watched

[@stickynorth]

It's the video I STILL show people when it comes to Vice and Russian societal degeneracy... Sad but true!

[@MrTangent]

Krokodil gets a bad rap. What’s a little gangrene? Come on, really? Man up. Can’t handle your arm rotting from the inside and falling off, like a lil pansy??

[@ericaclay4746]

Same bro, that video was coming up through my mind the entire time as I was watching this one

[@CBirds]

@@MrTangent kids these days can’t handle a little gangrene 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@epresley8324]

Same

[@bonson9156]

A mafia group in Russia (Malshyev OPG) actually started a ''rehab center'' and launched a campaign to ''clean up drugs'' in Yekaterinburg) because they had political aspirations (this was in the 90s I believe). It was a brutal place where people were chained to radiators and their beds and forced to go cold turkey off heroin. They were also probably the same people who brought drugs to the city at some point. Brutal Stuff

[@egorsurimov5996]

a lot of people thank them, though. its royzman's policy called DRUG-FREE CITY . did you help anyone?

[@limboeverchanging7831]

Royzman now is jaled.

[@billyyank5807]

They used to try and cure alcoholics by making them drink until they threw up over and over. Yea,brutal place is right.

[@billyyank5807]

​@@egorsurimov5996 who did you help? 🙈🙈

[@egorsurimov5996]

@@billyyank5807 i have not, but at least i don't criticise ones who did

[@cwb0110]

Desomorphine is the real name for this drug, which in and of itself is a legit analgesic…. It’s the impurities that the low level cookers add that cause the gangrenous symptoms. If they were actually getting uncut desomorphine, they’d simply be comparable to most any other opioid addicted person

[@AndrewJohnson-wj9er]

It’s made with iodine and red phosphorus in the same process as methamphetamine. Meth cooks distill the Rp out. When desomorphine is made in clandestine labs they leave it in. Look up what would happen if you inject RP. Same symptoms

[@zethloveless7238]

Yep

[@richardfinlayson1524]

Yeah that makes sense, it's often the laws that force people into a more desperate and dangerous alternative

[@grunge-mb9sb]

On Hammiltons pharmacopia he said it seems that a lot of the nasty effect seem to be from phosphorus. Left over from the red phosphorus used during the home bake desomorphine... I cant imagine the solvents and other reaction by products would be much better.... It seems on paper to be better than morphine rush wise so for inginuities sake i would say they made somethiing from.nothing jist never cleaned the final priduct up enough

[@jjcoola998]

This needs more thumbs up.. most drugs when pure are pretty harmless when they are regulated and used correctly . Heroin is safer than binge drinking alcohol when used correctly, but most people aren’t ready for that

[@jacksonbauer5199]

I was a full blown heroin addict for 21 years. I’ve been clean for going on 6 years now, but I’m still a strong supporter of the idea that people should be able to make their own choices. The “war on drugs” is never going end until rational individuals take up the task of reforming the approach. If drugs were decriminalized it would reduce crime, exponentially increase tax revenues, exponentially reduce overdose deaths (and other health issues), put the cartels in a tough spot, etc. I never OD’d, used a needle twice, shot up without testing my dope, robbed anyone and so on. The problem is not worth the drugs, it’s with the public perception of the people who use them. I know doctors, lawyers, professors, law enforcement officials who use heroin daily. A large amount of the American issue with opiates comes from capitalism! For 2 decades doctors were prescribing oxy for everything because they were getting kickbacks. The government didn’t care until the mid-2000’s, but by then, it was too late. I was in a motorcycle accident at 16 and endured dozens of surgeries to reconstruct my body. I was prescribed 180 Oxy 80s a month, that’s 6 pills a day… Obviously I was addicted by the end of the first year and continued being prescribed larger and larger amounts until 2007 when almost every pain management clinic was being raided by DEA agents. I realized in 2001 that I could quadruple my money selling my prescription and then just purchasing heroin, so that’s what I did. The point I’m trying to make is that the companies involved KNEW what they were doing and actively lied to patients and physicians while the government looked the other way. Now though, the government wants to crack down on the users instead of working to fix the problem? Fucking A man… Anyway, I apologize for the lengthy rambling comment. I just get pissed when I see that the world hasn’t really changed a bit.

[@edwarddailey21]

Absolutely, I'm in the same boat man, if you arent driving or hurting anyone or neglecting children you should be able to do what you want in the comfort of your own home.

[@geirmyklebust]

In Philly, police just watching the misery from the police booth in Kensington Ave, they can do nothing about it. In LA Skid Row, homeless addicts live outside the wall of the Police station, and shooting drugs. What Police does, they confiscate drugs and/or money when they patrol the interstate all over the USA, drugs from Mexico.

[@jamesmayfield4280]

well said man. good luck with your future

[@contambrah]

Can't you sue the company that gave kickbacks to your doctor?

[@piros44]

I completely agree. Decriminalize all drugs and then legalize them. A certain percentage of society will always seek to alter their consciousness by some means whether with alcohol and/or drugs. (Other animals do it too: look up elephants drunk on fermented fruit for a laugh. Elephants are smart enough not to keep going back for more if they don’t like the effect but they obviously do since they keep eating the fruit.) We should make it as safe as possible for people to use drugs if they wish to do so. The war on drugs has destroyed millions of lives here at home with draconian prison sentences and no knock warrants that sometimes end with the cops killing people for no reason, and abroad with DEA raids and spraying drug crops from the air with pesticides that are toxic to humans and destroy food crops as well. We are in large part responsible for the political instability in Mexico and the rest of central and South America. The violence of the drug cartels and drug gangs and the death and destruction they leave in their wake is caused by the illegal drug trade. The drug war was started by Nixon to go after blacks fighting for civil rights and anti Vietnam war protesters. There are recordings that spell it all out. At the end of the day, it’s not government’s business what adults do with their own bodies. As long as you don’t hurt anyone else, you should be able to do as you wish. The newest victims of this insane war are chronic pain patients who can’t get pain meds for the horrible pain they live with every second of every day. They are getting fired by their doctors, often for something minor like missing an appointment or for no reason at all, leaving them to go through cold turkey withdrawal and an increase in pain. Some are resorting to street drugs while others are killing themselves. All because other people abuse drugs and doctors are afraid of getting raided by the DEA. The whole thing needs to just stop.

[@blancobull]

Once again, I would like to congratulate, Drugs. For, winning the war on Drugs.

[@gst013]

I'd like to congratulate commas for winning this comment.

[@deepanshchaudhary5094]

Uncanny Truth

[@kiloton1920]

The drugs didn’t win the drug cartels did

[@sirmustard5337]

Literally every comma in your sentence is wrong

[@johnBlackwolf691]

Lol

[@rudeboi-wk1ou]

i love how the war on drugs series always ends with "we like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs" its just so fuckin raw and pure truth. lets make a change starting with enlightening the world about the mistakes made instead of denying and it all ending up the same. TRUTH IS TRUTH, and there is too much dust under the rug already.

[@beardlessodin945]

Russian: _mainlines pure ethanol and drinks more vodka than water_ “Those drugs are gonna kill you, man.”

[@thetahexhodlhands4550]

Forreal. good point a majority of addictive substances are FAR LESS bad for you then alcohol. Ive been to rehab for opiates and god am i happy its not alcohol i always feel so bad for those people they look like they got dragged behind a train.

[@volvos70t51]

Right!, it's called "drugs AND alcohol".....but Alcohol is most definitely the absolute definition of a drug!, Alcohol causes more violence and deaths than all the other "illegal drugs" combined (and by a big margin!)

[@thetahexhodlhands4550]

@@volvos70t51 It is physically worse for you then heroin is. All my recovering heroin addict friends are 30-40 and look like they are 18(opiates slow down aging dont ask me how lmao) i cant say the same for the drinkers.. I mean just googling the physical side effects of alc is pages and lists. With all the added idiotic behavior i am convinced alcohol is the worst drug that exists.

[@anfrac3700]

Russia had the option to introduce Islam way back in the day. The sole reason they decided against it (Except the South Caucasus) was because Christianity did not prevent them from drinking Vodka.

[@Narkomanlesnoi]

Ты ошибаешься у нас в России очень мало пьют

[@josephfranzen5626]

Sober for 4 years on the 6th of this month. I was heavily prescribed Percocet my last year in the Army for injuries sustained from an IED blast in 07. The VA continued prescribing aforementioned meds for about 4 years and one day just said I didn’t need them anymore, I was immediately introduced to being “sick” and had to find an alternative. I graduated from WPI being a functioning heroin addict. But that only lasted a few years before everything crashed and burned as is everyone’s story unless you have an unlimited supply of cash. Today I hold an excellent salaried position at a great IT company, sponsor a number of guys and do my best to give back to a community that did so much for me. Subs and methadone were just a band aid for me as I always ended up relapsing and the only way I got sober and stayed sober was to go to detox and than a CSS and finally a sober house for a year (on about my 10th or 11th try) that being said what works for you is what works for you. I’ve got friends who won’t sponsor guys on medically assisted treatment but I personally think that’s crap man. You do what you need to do to not live that life anymore, who the hell am I to judge you?

[@18aplateindoors]

Thank you 🙏 this is truly the way..just because i smoke marijuana and tale subutex i have a quality of life i never would have had while doing what i consider using..my credit is a 746 i own my house and have a brand new car life is amazing it all comes down to what u really want out of life..as long as ur not on ur drug of choice thats what matters.. i wish people would form a new NA where people had this thought process

[@badgoat666]

Congratulations on your upcoming 4 year anniversary. 👏

[@lavag1rl646]

Methadone allowed me to be in my baby’s life & live a completely different life compared to when I was in active addiction :) congrats on ur sobriety 🤍

[@joeyyc8515]

Trust me bro, I’m from that same Worcester area, and I got trapped in the same cycle. I have a degree in Economics from UMass Amherst. I’m one year sober next month. And Kratom is not your friend.

[@joeyyc8515]

@MAGAlionHat it’s sadly not.

[@Dempy]

Did anyone else’s soul just scream when the needle in the arm showed

[@Eliqueme]

Yeah, That makes me squeamish

[@cjwhite2631]

No because I’ve done it to myself until I had no veins left ... even in my neck and once I’m my penis. I now smoke fentanyl(although now I work full time again so maybe it is an improvement socially but it is still SIN)

[@godskull5788]

Absolutely. Had to look away.

[@johanngraue9026]

Not really rather the opposite, former heroin addict right here

[@Camlikesbmxbiks420]

7 year iv drug user.. still gets to me.

[@elli_se1438]

As a Russian I see a positive point: in Russia I rarely meet drug users in middle class. People know that it is simply dangerous because you have no idea what can be in it. At the same time during my exchange in Europe every student I met had tried drugs (weed included and stronger). As an adult I can make a conscious choice, but children cannot, so they become addicted. Cons: As a person who had surgeries in Russia, I can tell you that all the painkillers they give just simply make you sleepy, but do not ease the pain. That is because doctors are so afraid of stronger drugs. I just had a surgery, but there are patients with cancer and others. I simply think that it is unethical to make them suffer

[@jesusnavin5017]

Про мидл клас конечно забавно, я даже говорить не буду сколько я видел челиков из неплохих семей которые на мефе сторчались

[@SerhiiVoin]

Типичная русня, терпильность в крови.

[@bertsteinich]

Друг, я не знаю, где ты живешь, но скорее всего, тебе повезло. Питер весь торчит на том же мефе, сколько угодно могут быть хорошие семьи.

[@jesusnavin5017]

@@bertsteinich да забей манямирок у чела

[@Daniilo11]

So what is your point?

[@MiracleMorris]

I was hooked on Xanax for eight years and these punitive measures would have never helped me get sober. If more programs would've been available to help, I would've gotten sober years before I did

[@masterofreality230]

Oh, if they are strict enough you WILL get sober or rot in prison lol I am a recovering opiate addict, if they were legal, cheap and safe I would 100% still be on them.

[@MrGert150]

Its not about helping addicts , its about preventing people from doing drugs with extreme consequences

[@nedisahonkey]

Even as a junkie Xanax is a terrifying drug, it put me in so many sketchy situations due to lack of inhibitions. And the worst part is you don't even remember your high. Not to mention the long term cognitive damage it can cause or the fact that quitting cold turkey can FUCKING KILL YOU. You know it's bad when (non-IV) heroin is a safer alternative. But anyways, congratulations on your sobriety. It is a shame the way society demonizes addicts and how our health care system makes it a low priority.

[@zardozmyrh7789]

Absolutely it is a health and mental health problem and police are not trained to deal with it all they want to do is put people away they're ruining a lot of good people's lives most drug crimes are nonviolent and all they're doing is putting people away for possessions for a very long time one of the reasons they're so Draconian on drugs is because they've gone to private prisons and they don't make money if they don't have people locked up

[@clintparsons3989]

What do people get out of benzos… they seem totally non recreational to me. Every time I’ve taken them at any dose They either A: do absolutely nothing and I feel totally normal or B: make me blackout . I don’t see the point of abusing them.

[@jjcoola998]

You know it’s bad when americas drug policy looks amazing lol

[@sophiemoroz5744]

What’s even more disgusting here is that doctors are required to register and report to the police about calls for an ambulance in cases of overdose / poisoning with unknown drugs, people who apply to state medical organisations (which is the only way to get medical help for free) also fall under police records, may be deprived of their rights (prohibition for certain professions, deprivation of a driver's license, etc.)

[@ilovemeevennow9125]

@@sophiemoroz5744 even doctors forced to be a fing killer like hitlers era again or never been gone

[@seanaaron7888]

@@sophiemoroz5744 American drug policy is bad, but only compared to other Western countries. Compared to the rest of the world, it's relaxed. A lot of countries are stuck in the stone age, and some like Russia, are trying to move backwards.

[@sophiemoroz5744]

@@seanaaron7888 yeah, we already understood, that one of the Pootin’s goals in what he’s doing now is moving and petrifying backwards, cuz in opinions of people of that soviet generation today’s youths “obviously” are traitors, who’ll destroy the country and sell it to the “west”🤦🏻‍♀️ Consequently, if he decides to deal with it in such way that the country will be still isolated even after his death/etc, cuz noone wants to interact with it, then it turns out, he found the way to “save everything” (in his worldview it’s something like this)🤦🏻‍♀️😑

[@rs72098]

The U.S. has more drug treatment centers than any other country on the planet, look it up. We baby drug users more than anyone, and that's actually making the problem worse. Don't believe Vice indoctrination videos, they are funded by George Soros. It's interesting there's a British host. The British forced China to buy opium from them, when China knew it was killing their people, this was known as the Opium wars. Unfortunately China lost but eventually kicked out the British, restored the rule of law and stopped Opium sales. They talk about the war on drugs being racist, the lack of war on drugs was actually racist in China.

[@theFLCLguy]

A lot of times when people accuse others of something with little to no evidence it's actually then who are doing it. They assume if they are then everyone else must be too.

[@f554uv1]

You just summed up US foreign policy in a nutshell

[@SkateJunkees]

Vice has been going downhill fast 💨

[@julius7124]

Have you ever been in russia?

[@johnBlackwolf691]

You are 100% right!!!!!

[@chengchiu957]

actually that is stupid, this is governments they all are doing it. You don't know anything about the difference of individuals and organizations.

[@thesparklingsalt]

You should've mentioned at least two things: 1. men in power use drug related crime as a way to deal with political or business enemies (ex: Ivan Golunov case), and 2. in 90s there were several drug shady schemes involving Putin and Shoigu (current minister of defence)

[@IFBBProYeo]

I'd love to see vice do a deep dive like this on Russia's pornography/adult entertainment community. I've heard that it is illegal there yet the industry thrives as to when and how it suits the government/ local police.

[@leiajiang7877]

it's illegal in china as well but you can find it easily if you know where to look. The accounts get banned frequently, the contents get wipes on personal cloud storages. The people that distribute can get 10 years in some cases.

[@ticiusarakan]

in russia only creating content under ban. all sites work after 18+ verification

[@MeowodyC]

They’re known for trafficking women from Romania and countries surrounding

[@paulkeenan2691]

Associated with Ukraines Human/Child trafficking would open a few truths

[@teethgrinder83]

@@ticiusarakan so you can't produce porn but can watch it if over 18 yes? I wonder if there are loopholes and grey areas like "home made" porn being streamed and not prosecuted or something similar?

[@chrisratcliff7466]

Mad empathy for those opiate addicts in that part of the world where they aren't allowed such medicines like suboxone. I know all the substitution arguments but I also know as a 10 year IV addict, it saved my life. On a side note I'd like to see a study on the dichotomy of the meth epidemic in the US and the krokidile epidemic in Russia

[@veneraberens4653]

HEY WHAT EVER IT TAKES MAN TO STAY ALIVE AND BE ALIVE YOUR A SURVIVOR NO MATTER HOW YOU DID IT AND THATS WORTH HONORING AND CELEBRATING STAY SAFE HEALTHY AND BLESSED NOT YELLING ALMOST COMPLETELY BLIND

[@dxublexxsplicitxxsplicit4943]

@A B why even comment then?

[@spokiee2000]

those druggies shouldnt have got hooked in the first place... addiction especially in russia is a CHOICE.... you CHOOSE to be a junkie then you must deal with the consequences.

[@dxublexxsplicitxxsplicit4943]

@@spokiee2000 not always true, plus. You try living in Russia, I'd be doing heroin to escape too

[@zardozmyrh7789]

@@spokiee2000 It's backwards thinking people like you that have created a worse problem than we would have had ly decriminalized drugs Yes it's a choice but it shouldn't be a choice that puts people in prison that never works If you would look at some of the statistics if you would look at the 18th amendment you would understand this but you probably never will I feel sorry for you and your hillbilly family

[@stevehangzo7159]

Russia : we have the harshest drug policies The Phillipines : hold my license to kill

[@nathangarland9453]

Thay just shoot drug users in Philippines.there present is a loony.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

I remembered how the President of the Philippines insulted Obama 😂

[@Fly1n.]

I've been addicted to alpha-pvp mentioned in that vid in Poland before. Some of my friends died of it, the rest is still doing it, i am one of the few of the group that managed to get out of the addiction. I'm sometime still having dreams about vaporizing it in our way and wake up all sweaty, even after few years passed after i quit it. I hate that substance, but somehow still feel the desire to smoke or vape that crystals again.

[@jessamyers8761]

I'm a recovering addict. I'm on methadone and it saved my life. It's sad that this kind of help isn't available world wide.

[@CBirds]

You can do it :)

[@christianworton2915]

What does recovering addict mean? Are you in the process of quitting or have you? Or are you actually clean and free from the dirt that you call a life saver?

[@Spongequan69]

Don’t do drugs. Easy

[@billcollector5983]

@@christianworton2915 stopping drug use doesn't just fix everything that was screwed up during the time someone did use. Recovery means fixing their life after using. It's a process. How stupid & ignorant are you?

[@AleChemist23]

@@christianworton2915 its a process. A maintaining treatment, would it be methadone, buprenorphine or else, it is a life saver in terms of: you don't need to engage in criminal activity to "feel normal", you don't risk infections on a daily, you have a plasma concentration of the opioid which is stable and predictable as opposed to fentanyl based street products AND most importantly you can live as a productive, smart and well functioning human being in society. As a pharmacologist and as someone that went through it i can confirm MMT or equivalent are life savers sometimes.

[@sheriffcalihan702]

krokodil is just an impure version of mesomorphine which is actually a relatively safe opioid especially compared to heroin. The problem is that gasoline used in there production methods doesn’t completely evaporate meaning millions of Russians are injecting themselves with gasoline everyday.

[@mclilzenthepoet2331]

damn so do you know how someone could completely erased the gasoline from such a drug

[@jonhall2274]

Lmao, I know where you're going with that comment, because I had the same thought. 😂 Though I cannot judge you, as I am an exe heroin user. Clean since May 25th, 2020🙂

[@jonhall2274]

Also, think you mean Desomorphine, instead of mesomorphine. 🙂

[@huemann7637]

@@mclilzenthepoet2331 do you know what a fractional distillation column is?

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

@@mclilzenthepoet2331 vacuum evaporation, and chromatography are 2 ways to purify it.

[@kdorkdor6333]

Interesting stuff. I am a resident of this country and I have something to tell, because I myself passed the zone (prison) under Article 228 (drugs). The mere fact that operational officers were called as witnesses in the case and the search (this is illegal) speaks volumes.

[@kdorkdor6333]

Searches and drug tests were taken in 7 minutes in different parts of the city (as it was indicated in the criminal case), which could not be, since even a Tesla car could not be in time) But at the trial, the judge didn't care about it, as well as a bunch of other inconsistencies. In the Russian Federation, acquittals are less than 1 percent! I sometimes think: Why do we need courts when almost 100 percent of sentences are guilty? Immediately it is necessary to catch and plant. This is terrible!

[@germinarih]

My condolences! Nobody should be put in prison for fake charges. Unfortunately it is the way how Putin's Russia operates as it is based on the corruption and falsifications.

[@kdorkdor6333]

@@germinarih It's true. And ordinary people suffer for it.

[@joshuagraham6703]

@@kdorkdor6333 это не terrible, это пиздец

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

@@kdorkdor6333 Sounds awful man. Thanks for telling your story. Over here I called an ambulance for a guy I only kinda knew and the paramedics took him away after reviving him, leaving the cops to go in on me.

[@streetymcstreet]

Norway also profit’s from their war on drugs, largely pursuing weed smokers.. on the other hand we have one of the heaviest drinking cultures in the world. Our teens usually start drinking at the age of 13-14, but the government does not see it as a problem

[@SuperiorDefense]

America people start using fentanyl between 12-25.

[@sickheadsumaddy5231]

Really are weed smokers hardly persecuted in Norway? I can relate to the fact, that there is almost a heavy drinking culture in countries who fight people for smoking, farming, selling and distributing weed or hash. I've been in Tromso, Narvik and in Svalbard, all I saw was liquor locked behind metal bars in supermarkets( and it was hell expensive) and I didn't really know that teens usually start drinking around 13-14 years in Norway, but on the other hand I live in southern Germany, next to the border to Bavaria, where beer is cheaper than water, because it is considered to be a staple food and drinking huge amounts somehow considered to be a part of their tradition! Stay safe mate!

[@beautifulcaramelman]

Sorry but Norway isn't a Communist Nuclear Power. Sadly there will be no documentary for you guys!

[@sickheadsumaddy5231]

@@beautifulcaramelman Well next time you answer on a comment, make sure you don't talk pointless bullshit.

[@trull122]

I was shocked at how young Norwegian boys smoked tobacco. I saw a 9 year old in 1984 in Bodo who could roll his own with one hand.

[@JackOfAllRAIDs]

I'm willing to bet that those same law enforcement officers dealing such savage punishment against a drug user are themselves on drugs.

[@badfoody]

Gotta silence the dealers that know your face lol

[@yegorzakharov8514]

Often quite true, yes. But the video did NOT show a police officer inflicting the savage punishment. Nor a solider. It was a civillian.

[@yegorzakharov8514]

@Ezio Additore haha who compared to who? I hope you don't mean Russia vs US xX

[@therealbfunke]

@@yegorzakharov8514 Well in the US they'd at least would say you were a jerk; y'know for stripping a man bare trying him to a pole in the snow and beating him to death. But I guess Russians are more "Chill"

[@josha136]

100% on alcohol, most likely some weird stimulant as well. Kind of reminds me of how a lot of gay hating Christians are gay themselves

[@johnnyc.3261]

I’d love to see a story about how the war is affecting users in Ukraine and Russia. I’m curious on how things like the pandemic and war change how users get their supply.

[@angiebervinkle9542]

it doesn't look at the USA the drug trafficking never stopped drug addicts will do what they have to to get thier drugs

[@angiebervinkle9542]

i got off herion could turkey on my own and that experience made me never want to do it again and i have been clean seven years i even turned down pain killer after surgery

[@angiebervinkle9542]

here's a idea don't do drugs

[@lasskinn474]

I guess they make crocodil.

[@nedisahonkey]

I always wonder about things like this. I know its a morbid thought but I wonder if any Ukranian Junkies ended up getting killed by Russian troops while looking for a fix. And considering most of the bodies in Bucha have been surrounded by bottles of booze and there have been reports of Russian troops stealing prescription drugs from Ukrainians, the Russian soldiers clearly have their own problems with drugs. Although it's pretty universal for soldiers to use mind altering substances to cope with the hell that is war.

[@tonyk174]

Few years ago I was talking to a few Russians in Berlin. We were talking about weed and overall drugs in Russia. One thing I will probably never forget it, one of them said that there night heroin trains. Basically trains going from Iran and Afghanistan and other countries which are known for exporting heroin. And in return trains are going back filled with military stuff.

[@whome6415]

Governments should be killing junkies, why is this viewed as immoral? Do they work? Do they pay taxes? Do they make there Nation a better place? The answer is no.

[@larsvegas6001]

It's the same train that Santa takes end of Dezember! Few persons told me this a few years ago.

[@AdamAdamHDL]

Same with meth from Iran to Iraq. It's devastating

[@darrenwoolley8736]

Drugs have ALWAYS been controlled by the system that we're all a part of too!

[@romeodahl1283]

@@AdamAdamHDL What are you, a moron? There isn't even any trains that go between Iran and Iraq...

[@kestasbestas4619]

1.24 It happened not in Russia. It happened in Ukraine somewhere in Lugansk or Donetsk region. Man beating drug dealer was one of separatist comanders called Olhon.

[@ericyoung2136]

Wrong.

[@celticride4548]

Separatist in favor of Putin or against it?

[@kestasbestas4619]

He was pro russian. I am not sure but i think he is from Syberia region.

[@celticride4548]

@Dogelore Fundamentalist So the KGB Bolsheviks and the jUenited Fakes are the same. FREE Russia #FREERussiaFromTheBolsheviksKGB

[@petslife3665]

Hah nice first they sold you heroin and then accused you for drug usage withdrawn to GULAG where you becomes a legit slave. I think there’s no worst place on planet Earth then russia.

[@nicholasming5976]

He could’ve replaced Russia with the USA in the opening monologue. Maybe we’re not so different after all

[@NoddNup]

I’m so glad I’m over a year clean from opiates , starting back in 2004-2005 with my OC 80 prescription and the few OC 160s I could find in TJ AT THAT TIME. Cause you used to be able to go in a farmacia and ask for basically anything that Americans were bringing down to trade for crystal, but now the farmacias in TJ even sometimes ask you for a script for somacid . What’s crazy is my addiction to Alprazolam was worst than heroin, fetty(cake), oxy, hydro, dilaudid, methadone. I’ve had like 9 seizures from benzo withdrawal’s. Demon drugs. I stick to edibles now, can’t smoke or I get panic attacks

[@TegridyMadeGames]

If there was ever a good argument at America ending their war on drugs you found it: Russia.

[@khalilahd.]

It’s truly disgusting to watch them treat these people like dirt. I just don’t understand it 😣

[@uaash5531]

Oh well there are class A drug addicts. They chose their life doing fukin heroin

[@johnBlackwolf691]

That ain't nothing compared to other countries some will just kill you

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

What kind of treatment do drug dealers deserve?

[@Burnthealphabetpeople]

@@Anonymous-qj3sfpeople use drugs for fun so dealers are not bad people but child rapist are bad people and get less time and hate then drug users and dealers

[@yuyukawa9104]

Well he wasn't a confirmed drug dealer now was he?

[@3dp_edc]

"Politicians have been called out for many things but regularly getting high isnt one of them." Let me introduce you to Rob Ford, former mayor of toronto.

[@Dirka13]

Brickle Berry did a episode on rob ford ( different name in episode) lol

[@f554uv1]

or Zelensky who it has been revealed is a cokehead

[@doonie8287]

Its known that drugs are common in the British house of commons.

[@pospisk7690]

and in 2005 they found cocaine residue all over the european parliaments toilets

[@jp9332]

Hey he's got all he can Eat at home. Don't forget it. Quote of the century.

[@steph7960]

What's even more frightening is I believe if you were to ask many people in society if they agreed with such brutal treatment of addicts such as in Russia, they d agree with it.

[@FactStorm]

An indoctrinated and deeply conservative culture is bound to take after its government..one and the same.

[@QohelEt-qb7kw]

And you're right. I'm from Russia

[@ru8775]

Yes and men dying at 55 years age from alcohol 😄 Sadly Russia is such a brutal country and has been since czarist Russia Ask anyone who lived in the CCCP

[@seismixx]

not only in russia but some other countries too. its really sad how dehumanizing drug addicts are treated around the world

[@juggalo4life247mfrs]

It's just sad that so many people have lost there lives because they couldn't get treatment...

[@ballkans]

Also sad that 100.000 people in US died of drug overdose last year, and they could've get treatment.

[@overdoseonmynuts]

lot of them dont want it

[@uriituw]

Lost where lives?

[@scottjones8406]

The victim mentality, I like it

[@howepellin]

The Issues of being sympathetic of addicts.

[@buKzone]

It has allways been like this. I remember when Russian heroin dealers started to come in our country in the 90's. I heard these stories a lot. About high ranking police officers and diplomats who was involved in the drug trade.And they were the ones who hated the users and dealers in public. Nothing has changed in 30 years..

[@timontide6404]

The CIA is probably the biggest drug cartel in the world. We know who the grow cartels (South America, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan), we know who the transshipment cartels are (Mexico, Central America, Pakistan/Afghanistan) but somehow we don't know who the distribution cartels are (USA). I mean, besides the Sackler family. Weird, huh?

[@joshuabryant9845]

Yeah America is exactly the same. Our government has helped prop up several cartels. America loves working with the dealers, until the dealers won't do exactly what America wants them to. Then America kills them and tries to cover the involvement at every turn lol.

[@scopolamin1]

The business wouldn't work without them

[@buKzone]

@raised on tren It is actually quite funny what that one guy says in this clip. That there are extremist groups who are flooding the Russia with heroin to ruin their state.. When actually it's them selves who are flooding the rest of the World with that stuff.. And it's done by officials.. Funny is not the right word.. It's kind a really sad...

[@Universal.G]

Meanwhile Portugal has decriminalized all drugs, and made certain drugs legal. Overdoses are down, death by drugs are down, non violent drug possession no longer using tax dollars for jail, drug use is down, criminal drug related crime is down...etc... Some countries are learning this and following suite.

[@willbass2869]

Legalizing hard drugs doesn't work. Ask the Swiss and Dutch

[@co_snowy]

I’m sure everything is down hahahahahaha you keep listening to your government 🐑 😂

[@BERENCEV]

“Crockodil” is also called “Yellow Chinese” or dezmorphine. You can find it in Australian film called “Candy” featuring Aussie stars Jeffrey Rush, Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish. If you make it properly there are no such harsh side effects as you can see in this film and real life. However, I strongly recommend stay away from it.

[@andyk192]

I think you mean desomorphine.

[@badgoat666]

"Drugs are so dangerous, we will ruin your life if you're caught using them" ~ mainstream drug policy.

[@nasimpedrad28]

Addiction is a battle with your mind you can’t beat it out of junkies

[@clownindan]

Get off the internet fatty

[@scopolamin1]

but they beat the junkie

[@matthewtruscott9228]

Each of these episodes just keep getting better, some of the best media on KZbin.

[@ani_matus]

The name crocodile is because one of the precursors synthesyzed during the cooking process is clorocodil, it has nothing in common with the animal. And no, you will not get scales if you use it, just necrosis. Yes, you could get ingredients for the drug back in 2011, but since then everything changed. Synthetic stimulants like mephedrone are very popular among young people, if talk about opioids I heard about methadone only, but there is no methadone program in Russia, which means it is being imported from somewhere else.

[@dasrubberduck7331]

Imagine your military being embarrassed by a bunch of drug addicts and neo Nazis.

[@user-ui5kq7xb1w]

Imagine believing that’s actually what happened

[@louise7131]

Who's the neo Nazi?

[@YeshuaAkbar-u3f]

Imagine being so stupid that you belivie Ukrain will win over Russia in this war. I really don't understand how stupid people can be. Maybe you should turn off your TV so you don't get brainwasched by media.

[@user-ii8dz4vu7n]

Russia tries so hard to make Ukraine look weak and degenerate but it only makes Russia look even more weak, evil, and incompetent.

[@rollinthunder8671]

AZOV BATTALION are nazi

[@peterhausamann5923]

Russia knew, some 50 years ago, that harsh treatment and fear tactics did not work. But they lack the understanding that a 'high' is a substitute for spiritual bliss, the very nature of being free of all fears. Introducing fear only exacerbates the problem.

[@familiarsting4108]

Well said.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

50 years ago in Soviet times, people didn't even know what "drugs" were. There were no drugs in the USSR. A huge amount of drugs began to be imported to Russia in the 90s

[@ace5013]

Why are they abusing users ? Beaten to death for being a junkey Why ?? That alone speaks alot on there morals

[@t2dab936]

they beat up dealers not addicts

[@HeroOfTheDay16]

@@t2dab936 they literally invited addicts to come get beaten too, lets not pretend like they have any morals theyd happily beat me and my boyfriend for being in a same sex relationship too

[@t2dab936]

@@HeroOfTheDay16 nazi spotted

[@sparks1792]

@@t2dab936 he literally said addicts are welcome

[@orphaotheseeker2770]

@@djokovic1747 I have. Are you implying that drug addicts and dealers are subhuman and deserve to be tortured and killed?

[@Reptar4000]

At some point, self accountability needs to come into play. No one is forcing them to use drugs.

[@MarriedToTheKGB]

self accountability starts at the moment before they take the drugs in the first place knowing it's addictive

[@deathwish1668]

“new drug called krokodil” krokodil is definitely not new lol

[@mysteryY2K]

that quote was from 2011

[@mikkokorperich4151]

The irony here is that Russia has a severe problem with alcohol addiction.

[@deeh.513]

Despite the stereotypes, Russia isn't even the top 10 alcohol consuming countries any longer, overtaken by Moldova, Germany, Ireland, and Lithuania, and South Koreans are drinking twice as much as ruskies. Japanese are not too far behind, they don't even view drinking as a vice.

[@OGGOAT23]

Stigma nothing else.

[@mauriciosolano9342]

@@deeh.513 Waaaaaaaaaat (I meant, I expected this from Germany but not SK or Japan

[@bellami86]

@Dee H. That's true. Internet and games addiction surprisingly replaced the alcoholism in Russia.

[@wayneandrews9298]

@@deeh.513 you forgot Britain , biggest bunch of pathetic pissheads iv seen ..

[@tech1238]

Rehabilitation should be free

[@MiracleMorris]

It really should

[@kazashoonok1568]

Imagine being an American and critisicing Russian war on drugs policy, while there is San Francisco and other such cracktowns

[@an0970]

Imagine being intimidated by drug addicts 😂🤣🤣

[@jacobishii6121]

Methadone isn't necessarily the answer.......I've been on methadone for 20 years and if I had know how much worse it was for me and how much harder it was to get off of I'd never have got on it.

[@euko6876]

Methadone shouldn't be prescribed to anyone longer than a couple of years at the most. There should be a mandatory stop date and have a rehab facility already booked for the user. Otherwise, right back to dope or prolonged use. I've seen it so many times. And with myself I knew suboxone wasn't some "cure", it really comes down to how bad the person wants to get clean. But I'm sorry to hear that. You might feel trapped and It probably feels impossible to get clean, but trust me it's still possible. You will definitely need help and mental preparation. Professional help and long term inpatient rehab. 20 years ain't no joke especially with methadone

[@jamiesehdev2663]

Works for some... But not for everyone..

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Russia hyperfans from indon watching this: "this is fake news!! Western propaganda!!"

[@sireugenethunderfuck9229]

funny thing is the war on drug in indo is pretty much the same as in russia...just absolute corruption to the highest level

[@olgazakharova8854]

I am not a russia hyperfan but i am russian-born living in Europe for a while but each and every reference in this video is really outdated. 10-20 years outdated. No sources to any of the statictics. I lived in Russia through the heroin and krokodile epidemics. I was a kid-teenager back then and in my mid 30s now. Despmorphyn wad banned a while ago. The shift in the drug use towards chemical drugs, so-caled spice happened years ago. So tell me what is the message this video tries to deliver?

[@TheDragonborn97]

@@olgazakharova8854 Outdated, but not false for sure

[@olgazakharova8854]

@@TheDragonborn97 some things are false or so outdated that they no longer represent the situation. For example, there are treatment facilities in Russia delivering both for drug users and for their co-dependant family members. Some outdated facts are misinterpreted to deliver political message. I wonder where statictics come from overall. In good journalism sources would be provided. Some things are misinterpreted to deliver a political message. All in all, i consider this a poor journalism when facts are either not checked or purposely misinterpreted.

[@Om999-]

@@olgazakharova8854 message: Russians are bad. I am not Russian, but: Crocodile in Russia, pfizer in US, what's the difference?

[@abdulazeezbala5504]

The narrator has a very pleasant-sounding voice.. made for documentary. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ not completely sure of the credibility of the channel’s content but this video was nicely presented.

[@voutolliC22]

The most offensive aspect of their prohibition strategy is the implication that if heroin were legal everywhere, tomorrow, everyone would be on heroin. The idea that we can't help ourselves but to be monsters is contra to a compassionate, progressive society.

[@Clever90]

Everything reeks infection in the economy… I don’t know who, however a person desires to pay attention to this, you have to stop replying on the government and saving all of your money. venture into making an investment a few in case you actually want monetary freedom

[@jackoliver1871]

I think this pandemic/infection has taught people the importance of multiple streams of income, unfortunately having a job doesn’t mean security rather having different investments is the real dear

[@mujtabaali7710]

There are platform where you can invest and they trade your money. Then pay you profit either weekly or monthly. That’s investing

[@mujtabaali7710]

I have been earning $60,000 returns from my $7,000 investment every 21 days

[@georgeaiden8005]

Trading options with Mrs Clarissa is a good chance to make money and start paying your bills. It’s the best opinion to get out of debt

[@markrobert1578]

I was able to see that she is a registered trader, cause I don’t believe anything i see online but I’M definitely shocked that she is real, how do I reach her please

[@kaiw1182]

Afghans have been producing opium since the 1950s. The Soviet invasion didn’t spawn production, it only boosted it. Afghanistan and Pakistan became major suppliers in the mid 1970s because supply from the “Golden Triangle” was disrupted.

[@joncharles1584]

I believe it's still going on

[@yaniplanet6448]

The biggest market is Western Europe and North America

[@All4Grogg]

Opium has been in production for all of history. Not figuratively either, opium poppy pods are found in icongraphy older than any written records.

[@maggiemae7539]

@@joncharles1584 it’s in Mexico now. Closer to the border and cut out 2 countries to pay off.

[@azishappy2035]

The Taliban are now ordering poppy farmers in Afghanistan to plow under their crops.

[@billyamer9314]

Krokodil is desomorphine, the impurities are what leads to the scaly skin etc

[@MajorMlgNoob]

Gasoline will do that

[@mksu2991]

A whole country full of addicts with no methadone or suboxone.... just wild to me. however i'm sure after the 30 days of withdrawals and cold sweat nightmares in that room you'll never wanna go back.

[@kingmiller1982]

Imagine being a drug addict and being locked in a bathroom sized room for a month with 7 other drug addict all going cold turkey! Sounds like an interesting reality show to me.

[@RyleKittenhouse]

Give them tasks to complete for a bag etc hahaha that would be good content.

[@JPREEDY77]

Russia started the AIDS epidemic in Novosibirsk in ~1981-1983. Still has the highest rate of new infection of anywhere in the world. Nearly 2million new infections a year last I read.

[@hunglow1308]

This couldn't be another Vice hit piece could it? NAH!! LMAO!!

[@cameroncurrie7208]

Don't forget they have a severe alcohol problem to go with that. And many generations of alcoholics before them..

[@Dragon22078]

Will a chemist please respond and explain what chemical reactions are happening when caffeine, formic acid, and tropicamide is boiled in petrol?

[@mysteryY2K]

certainly not the synthesis of a psychoactive compound, i can tell you that. makes me wonder what's actually having psychoactive effects on these users brains aside from desomorphine (which was absent from the aforementioned mixture?)

[@mikedelossantos4775]

@@mysteryY2K Its caffetin, which contains codeine. They ise Iodine and red phosphrous from matches, with formic acid or any acid to coax it out of the freebase and make it water soluble. its a legit reaction. Oxidation of codeine produces desomorphine

[@alli6791]

Putin could never stand heroin withdrawals. I wish people could feel what it’s like before they judge anyone, just for a few days. No help with withdrawals is cruel, and inhumane. We are way past the point in human history, where we don’t understand that addiction is a disease, it is. If their are medicines that help addicts get off heroin, why not use them? You’ll have a lot more success getting people clean, but im assuming the only reason they do it this way in Russia, is because it would cost to much money to help addicts in a humane way.I mean this isn’t the biggest example of how barbaric Putin is (Ukrainian war) but it is still disgusting. Also the corruption isn’t surprising at all, actually pretty predictable

[@alli6791]

@@Dockhead believe me I’ve bitched about the same exact thing. Then I realized that it’s not for everyone, that’s why it’s not the only option. I’d sit there waiting to get my daily dose, and thought about how much money those places make 20$ a person, everyday for years, so what incentive does that place have to actually help a person when they are making so much money. I don’t think I said anywhere that methadone was the only option.

[@alli6791]

@@Dockhead yes the medicines aren’t the best they can be, and it’s always about profits for big pharma (just like the dealers), but you can’t play down the importance of the medicines because you do know what’s in them, and you know that when you take the right dose, you won’t overdose. That’s very important, but yes we still have a long way to go with research into better options for medications. But there are dangers with meds like suboxone, because you have to wait 24 hours after your last shot to take it because when I didn’t wait those 24 hours, it threw me into viscous withdrawals and I had to go to the hospital because it was so dangerous. When dealing with big pharma, I’m always sketched out, but at least drug dealers don’t act like what they are giving you is safe like big pharma does. It’s really about trying to pick the lesser of two evils.

[@jacqdanieles]

Why does Vice shoot from this weird camera angle where it looks like the presenter is talking to someone outside the field of the camera rather than shooting him looking directly at the camera?

[@buzifalus]

Nwo

[@AleChemist23]

A maintaining treatment, would it be methadone, buprenorphine or else, it can be a life saver in terms of: you don't need to engage in criminal activity to "feel normal", you don't risk infections on a daily basis, you have a plasma concentration of the opioid which is stable and predictable as opposed to fentanyl based street products AND most importantly you can live as a productive, smart and well functioning human being in society. As pharmacologist and as someone that went through it i can confirm MMT or equivalent are life savers sometimes.

[@kurtsteven6228]

You can’t beat the addiction out of people. That’s just a fact. If their were resources to help addicts in Russia. I’m sure people would actually quit. If there’s no help there probably isn’t much hope. Hope help finds them. 🙏

[@Idontknowwhat2type]

What makes users want to use… trauma. So applying it only make it more wanted. Addicts cope with narcotics. High stress requires coping. Pretty wild how Russian officials don’t realize or that they do and they are potentiating it for profit My heart goes out to users in Russia. Hope you get shown humanity and can get sober.

[@merit7344]

The 15th century ivan the terrible style mentality makes them think that the world is still a battlegroun and if you flex muscles enough, move around and scream out loud like a monkey then everything will be good and prosperous

[@sherrymanning1116]

And if they care more about the Russians people too

[@UshankaCats]

You have places that help in Russia they are giving Naloxone because replacement therapies aren't used. People have access to resources the resources are just one chance services and you need to approach them. if you relapse or found taking drugs before that then you've consequences. I don't think government cares if people quit.. the consequences make up for not wanting to try it to start with.

[@kurtsteven6228]

@@UshankaCats I thought that a lot of Russians go to Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan for the treatment. They put you in a medical coma and pump you full of naloxone and it gets all the opiates out of your system in hours and it’s only a couple day process. I know they have it in the US and it’s called the Weiss man trials but it’s about $20,000!

[@cathalssupermegahappyfunti223]

Vice in 2015: Look at these Ukranian Nazis in the military. Vice in 2022: What Nazis? Look Russia bad.

[@dirkbonesteel]

I thought about that too. I hate Nazis with a passion, but Putin is a far greater danger to the world present day. He's been a energetic evil ass hell MF since his East Germany KGB days

[@mysteryY2K]

they never denied the presence of nazis in the military, and already covered it as you mentioned in their 2015 piece. so why cover it again? oh right, vice bad

[@oneletterz1659]

The problem with drugs isn't that they harm the user. The problem is they redirect loyalty in extreme ways.

[@hellyeah_ellajane]

Loyalty and priorities.

[@maggiemae7539]

They become a slave to and for the drugs

[@eriknielsen6216]

Nicely put.

[@kimlarso]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Iswhatitisssss]

Trust me, it’s much better to be forced to go cold turkey rather than the liquid handcuffs, better known as methadone.

[@xximpacts2cks]

Krokodil is just a terrifying name for a drug

[@yoke-munchan1813]

Ty great eye opening stuff. One word you missed in the summary is "Profit"

[@lordtuxlozad]

А friend of mine is in russian prison right now. One of of his cellmates, murdered and dismembered his mother an sister and received 14 years in prisons, another one was in group of hired assassins - got 15. And the 3rd one was caught with 2 Gr of spice\JWH\synthetic weed - he received 16 years in the same prison.

[@petslife3665]

russia is worst place on the Earth planet, bc they spread their hands even far abroad

[@zac2780]

As an addict I can speak for how much worse methadone is than heroin it takes about 20x the length of withdrawal once wanting to actually quit

[@wukilla8ee]

That is very interesting that after the Russians went into Afghanistan they all of a sudden had a heroin problem in their country. Sound familiar to anyone else here in the United States!?!?!? I was deep in the NY drug scene from 1996-2013 & before 2001 I didn't know anyone who used heroin, nor did I know anyone that sold it. After 2001 it was EVERYWHERE!!! LITERALLY EVERYWHERE

[@johnogrady_]

That’s Purdue pharma fault the sackler family with OxyContin and it was approved by the fda

[@KlausSchwab-uq9sl]

Sharp insight

[@rawsanity27]

I love Russia to death. I’m half Russian myself. I love Russian culture. But I’m a recovering heroin addict. Banning suboxone is stupid asf. I’ve been on suboxone almost 3yrs now It’s literally a life saver. Ppl need it.

[@hallhowarth4584]

Yes.

[@mitchellbowman22]

Ever withdrawal off suboxone? It’s worse than anything else. Get off it while you can. The withdrawal lasts about a month

[@rawsanity27]

@@mitchellbowman22 Yes I have. I personally think heroin withdrawal is way worst than suboxone withdrawal. And I do plan on getting off it once I’ve been sober as long as I was using. So far I’m 3yrs clean, I was using for 4 1/2 yrs. At the moment I’m fine on it. I’ve been doing real good on it. Making tons of $ & collecting shoes.

[@mitchellbowman22]

@@rawsanity27 you’re not clean until you’re off everything. Sorry but it’s the truth. Buprenorphine is just another drug that gives you the dopamine you need to get through life.

[@rawsanity27]

@@mitchellbowman22 I know plenty of Ppl on suboxone & they all clean off heroin fighting a battle. You obviously know nothing about addiction ☠️

[@jbj7599]

I remember hearing bout this drug in the early 2000s I think. Crazy drug

[@peteparsons432]

“The war on drugs has always been about a war on people.” Well said young man!

[@damm41]

The fact even iran used harm reduction in treating addiction is saying a lot about russia

[@qingyangzhang6093]

In Russia they say the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should be renamed back to its equivalent during Stalin's times, the People's Commissariat (NARKOMat) of Foreign Affairs. Because Narkomat sounds like a drug vending machine to modern ears

[@jimmydemars8948]

Well drugs are a major problem. As a former heroin addict I think the way we do it in the US is way too soft. In many ways the government makes it easy for you to stay on drugs. They give you money and foodstamps allow you to go to rehab as many times as you want for free in most states. Most of the people in rehab aren't even there for serious reasons they just want a break from running the streets for a little while before they go back to it.

[@Desbugador]

I find weird how VICE labels religion drug rehabs as bizarre.

[@thicpancakes4673]

I literally turned in a project on this drug like 3 days ago… L timing from Vice

[@residuefingerz]

the flaking skin side effect isn't due to the desomorphine in krokodil but rather impurities

[@chaosdweller]

Thx

[@chaosdweller]

For the info.

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

Red phosphorus

[@Pinpon4206]

Do a piece on Ukraine with the same political impacting messages that this one has.

[@annakova5060]

👏

[@adrianriley1939]

1:15 That's one HELL of a LINE!!!!!!!!

[@moeclash238]

This smells a lot like propaganda even if it’s true.

[@brendandoyle8147]

Why is it wild to think drugs being used as a weapon. Brits did to China 200 years ago.

[@afkass4965]

Terrorists still do. They inject heroin and then go to fight with security personal. What this does is that even after they get shot multiple times, they senselessly keep firing, almost like a zombie for a long time. That's why armies that deal with terrorism frequently are changing their bullet types from 5.56 mm to 7.62 mm bullets, as they're heavier and are believed to kill drugged terrorists in a single shot.

[@JD-eo7dr]

Yeah and it give them a black market trade worth billions

[@therealdarklizzy]

It could even be argued that the CIA did it to the American inner cities as late as the 90s. Of course, we don't know if that was intentional, or just the result of carelesness.

[@sophiemoroz5744]

What’s even more disgusting here is that doctors are required to register and report to the police about calls for an ambulance in cases of overdose / poisoning with unknown drugs, people who apply to state medical organisations (which is the only way to get medical help for free) also fall under police records, may be deprived of their rights (prohibition for certain professions, deprivation of a driver's license, etc.)

[@johnallen7807]

I cannot understand how so many people can be so stupid as to deliberately destroy their lives and at the same time cause untold misery to millions by the crimes they commit to fund their addiction.

[@trialcritic7625]

While this is sad I would like to see countries handling this well and the policies. Yes, the policies may not work globally, but knowing them is a start

[@Skateandcreate9]

Really like this host 👍

[@isiahchillous4180]

Honestly would prefer this happening in society than losing childhood friends to overdoses. Seems like a strong deterrent.

[@isiahchillous4180]

@Phil Andrei Vasilievsky Green I hope things get better

[@douglasstewart3889]

Yeah. That’s why there are so many addicts.

[@LandonStrauss-hc1sc]

Well it's happening and still doesn't help! You sound like one of those parents that can only ever beat their child instead of raising them properly.

[@blaze-uz6or]

I've lost several family members to opioids. I don't know what the right answer is or how to stop it. There is no right answer unfortunately.

[@amyseaden9069]

Still remember my family member going to Russia to do research on HIV in the 2000s when the rest of the world was implementing policies and reduce the spread of HIV. People would associate HIV problems with other countries not Russia.

[@davidbaker8634]

Considering the state sponsored drug program Russia has for athletes, this is very ironic...

[@jasonjewell1667]

3 years clean. Kratom saved my life!

[@toejam6941]

Ah. That stuff is a miracle.

[@arthurdamberg9854]

Author, I am from Russia, I have visited many, many countries in my life. And when you say that the problem of drug addiction in Russia is beyond our control tragedy, I want to invite you to any city in my country and walk along the streets, along the outskirts of the city, anywhere. You won't see homeless addicts in tents, syringes on the pavements, you will be able to walk around any part of the city at night and during the day in complete safety. I can’t say the same about many cities in Europe or the USA. Think about it ;)

[@myboysd5772]

There is drunkards in most apartments and bars, outside in parks etc, these poor alcoholics, gopniks will rob you blind if you stumble upon them (provided you are in a bad neighbourhood, not likely to happen in the middle of Moscow which is a very very rich place compared to average Russian city), and Russia has slowly turned into a fascist dictatorship. Russia has also sent a lot of addicts into jail and to frontlines from there, this was documented before Prigozhin attempted a coup. In Europe and USA this is not the case. Comparing Russias safety to Europe is absurd. About USA i can agree somewhat, but kinda like in Russia, the safety depends largely about the place we are talking about. But overall, Russia is worse in safety than Europe.

[@matovicmmilan]

​@@myboysd5772 What do you mean by "a city in Europe"? In Albania or in France? In Norway or in Sweden? To cut the story short: no idea about Albania; in France the cities are full with migrants, the homeless, and it's dirty; Sweden has a similar issue with migrants like France but due to much smaller population - 1 migrant in Sweden equals 6-7 in France; Norway has much less such issue and it's also wealthier than Sweden and especially France. How's Russia a dictatorship? What was the last time a US president got elected, without it being some narrow, barely obtained victory? And on top of this, that the same president didn't leave the office with even worse popular/public support?

[@myboysd5772]

@@matovicmmilan If you dont know how Russia is a fascist dictatorship you have no idea what you are trying to talk about.

[@CunningHamster123]

It has been proven that harsh punishment does not work. A working economy with good education, tons of jobs, good opportunities for all, effective rehabilitation plan that re-skill and re-educate works. No child grow up saying they want to be a drug addict or a drug dealer. Drug addicts and dealers are just the side effect of a dysfunctional country

[@vitocorleone2517]

finally someone who gets it