My generation was among the first—I'm announcing that I'm really old by saying this—that turned to antibiotics. People were surviving illnesses that destroyed people before. As a result, to some extent, we started to think of pharmaceuticals, in general, as some kind of great saviour, and of course we know there are negative ramifications for many.
I read a piece today, and I clipped a little bit to put in here. Niagara Falls police today are reporting that since OxyContin was taken off the market, there is a new concoction being used, including by people who can't access heroin. They call it Krokodil. I don't know whether anybody has heard of it. I hadn't heard about it before today, but this is monstrous. It's a blend of iodine, gasoline, industrial cleaning oil, lighter fluid, and paint thinner, mixed with codeine and injected. It's called Krokodil because of what it does to the skin, leading to necrotizing fasciitis or flesh-eating disease. This flowthrough that's happening, ending in this place.
I know we have a philosophical difference with the other side on InSite because of the withdrawal from heroin. If there's anything I've ever heard to say that InSite could protect people from that—and I'm not asking you to comment.... It's just that this thing struck me hard when I read that people are so prepared to inject that kind of concoction. We're in a desperate place.