| Summary: | This text discusses the dezomorphine - a drug better known as crocodile. Use
of this home made substance has reached epidemic range since 1990’s in
Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Our analysis deals with this particular
space. That is, considering the modest expert literature regarding the
socio-demographic features of consumers, occurrence pervasiveness and its
etiology, we have found data from the countries born after the Soviet Russia
breakdown, which have obviously been the hardest hit by it. The first aim of
our analyses was to: provide the summary of expert findings about the
pervasiveness, crocodile consumers and assumptions regarding the etiology.
The second aim aroused from the first: we tried to discuss and illustrate
potential ethological factors connected with crocodile use initiation. Two
sociological theories have framed the theoretical outline: theory of
dislocation and critical criminology theory, which emphasize the significance
of socalled social breakdown - unforeseen and large social changes that
initiated deviant behavior, including addiction. Apart from summary of
experts analysis of crocodile we have offered official statistics about
social factors seen to have important role in development and speeding of
this particular drug addiction. The findings of this, conditionally called,
meta analysis are contradictory for large part depends on methodological
difficulties and lack of adequate information. Summed up the findings point
to the need for better methodological design and extended crocodile addiction
research with attention drown to social context and cultural features of the
countries emerged after the former Soviet Union breakdown.
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