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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 ...

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, ...

Codeine, gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous from matchstick heads. Those are typical ingredients in the street drug known as krokodil, a highly addictive toxic ...

Don’t know about you, but a street drug that gets its name because it can eat away flesh and causes scaly and crusty greenish skin doesn’t appeal to me. But Krokodil is extremely popular in Russia and ...

It’s been hard to miss the stories about the rise of “krokodil,” a dangerous drug with which American journalists have become fascinated, thanks to its relevance to two of the media’s favorite topics: ...

The dangerous drug is called crocodile due to its side effects: an addict’s skin turns greenish and scaly, similar to a crocodile’s. Blood vessels burst and the surrounding tissue dies, often ...

It’s called “the most horrible drug in the world” — and it’s come to Illinois. Dr. Abhin Singala, a specialist at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, said he’s treating ...

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 ...

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 the ...