Homemade drugs have had devastating effects on addicts across Russia, where about 100,000 people are thought to be making and using substances made from legal and easily available ingredients.<br /><br />One of the drugs, called 'Krokodil' (or crocodile), named after the scaly-looking sores it causes, is made from a combination of headache pills, petrol, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous scraped from the strike strips of matchboxes.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from Moscow.<br /><br />Warning: This video contains graphic footage.<br /><br />One of the drugs, called 'Krokodil' (or crocodile), named for the scaly-looking soars it causes, is made from a combination of head-ache pills, petrol, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous scraped from the strike strips of matchboxes.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from Moscow.<br /><br />Warning: this video contains graphic footage.
