More cases of Krokodil use are reportedly popping up around the United States, prompting some medical professionals to warn that the addictive, poisonous drug has reached American shores. Krokodil, ...
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Authorities are warning a deadly drug used as a cheap replacement for heroin that literally eats a person's flesh from the inside out could be on its way to California. When you ...
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A drug with a terrifying reputation for rotting the flesh of users is making its way across the country. Now, the Russian heroin knock off called krokodil is in Kentuckiana, at ...
More possible cases of the use of krokodil, the flesh-eating drug popular in Russia and Eastern Europe as a cheaper alternative to heroin, have surfaced in the U.S., this time in a Chicago suburb, ...
Two more patients have checked into a Chicago-area hospital after developing skin lesions from using a drug they thought was cheap heroin. The substance turned out to be krokodil, doctors told Fox ...
There have now been at least eight cases of the skin-rotting Russian drug krokodil reported in the US, according to medical professionals who spoke with The Verge, and at least three resulted in death ...
Here is a transcript of a Q&A; about the drug krokodil with Dr. Michael Lynch, a toxicologist and the director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center.(Click here to read the main story.)Networks have covered ...
The hunt for krokodil continues as tests conducted in recent days on a suspected sample of the so-called flesh-eating drug came back negative, federal officials said. An announcement two weeks ago by ...
Have you heard about this new drug, krokodil, that's supposedly wreaking havoc across the U.S.? Krokodil has been described as heroin's answer to meth. It's an injectable, synthetic opiate recently ...
Deadly flesh-eating drug Krokodil has spread to Mexico where a teen girl has been injecting it into her genitals. The 17-year-old reportedly shocked doctors in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, after showing ...