Friday 11 October 2013

Flesh-eating Krokodil drug surfaces in Chicago suburb

foxnews.com - Three patients have been treated this week at a southwest suburban Joliet hospital in Chicago for using a synthetic opiate that doctors say rots the skin from the inside out."If you want to kill yourself, (using) this is the way to do it," said Dr. Abhin Singla, Director of Addiction Services at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet.Crocodile, which also is spelled Krokodil, started being manufactured about a decade ago in Russia, where heroin is harder to find, Singla told the Herald-News.

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