You don't want to read this article.

And I probably _shouldn't_ have.

But once I started, I couldn't _stop_.

It's not the reading, so much as the pictures.

It's an io9 article about Krokodil (prevalent in Russia), a commonly home-synthesized, cheap, heroin-like drug that, when made not in a lab, tends to be made wrong due to the individual not having all the necessary components.  It can still be made to have heroin-like effects, but which last only about an hour.  Which puts addicts into a loop of making the drug and taking it over and over again all day.  

And the problem with the home-brewed version is that it pretty quickly turns your skin green and scaly before rotting your skin off to expose bone and muscle tissue.  

The information on the drug and phenomenon, while morbid and horrible, was pretty fascinating.  And the first picture down the page is pretty terrifying and gross, but you sort of adjust and feel proud that you could deal with the effects.  

But the final picture on the page is what sanity loss is made of.  And, while it was intensely horrible, you sort of can't look away.  You're drawn to look at the details while convinced one more second will render you insane.

So I'm not telling you to look, but if you do, expect to never be able to scrub your brain of the sight.