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What most people don't realize is that the majority of long-term, hard-core drug addicts are dying in their 40s and 50s. The latest studies show that the life expectancy of a drug addict is 15 to 20 years after they start being a drug addict. So what we see is a replenishment of the population, a new crop of addicts. There are no 90-year-old heroin addicts. Most of those we were recording 20 years ago have died.
Since prolonged use of the drug is terminal (the typical lifespan of a krokodil addict is estimated to be about two years), itâs impossible to really know how many people have been addicted to it, but whatâs clear is that itâs no longer just Russiaâs problem.