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The toxic drug Krokodil got its name because it causes an addict's skin to become green, scaly and bumpy like a crocodile's. The drug world is scary, but it can’t get any more frightening than ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A family that has spent years shooting heroin together is now suffering together, after apparently injecting a flesh-eating street drug known as krokodil. Lockport resident Kimberly ...

Krokodil or Crocodile in Russian is a homemade substitute of heroin, which is casting deathly shadows over the lives of thousands of Russia's drug addicts. It has a reptilian name because the users' ...

Krokodil has a reptilian name because the users’ skin starts developing crocodile-like unpleasant scales, over repeated use. via: Demotix Krokodil or Crocodile in Russian is a homemade substitute of ...

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 ...

Krokodil — a deadly opiate known as the zombie drug because it eats holes in the flesh of users — has raised its scaly head in South Africa. Cooked from codeine tablets available across the counter ...

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 ...

A powerful heroin-like drug that rots flesh and bone has made its first reported appearance in the United States, an Arizona health official says. Known on the street as "krokodil," the caustic ...

About a decade ago, Russian doctors began to notice strange wounds on the bodies of some drug addicts — patches of flesh turning dark and scaly, like a crocodile’s — in the hospitals of Siberia and ...