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, ...

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 ...

A flesh-eating street drug initially seen in Russia has been reported for the first time in the U.S. The heroin-like drug, chemically called desomorphine, is known on the street as “krokodil.” The ...

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 ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, MI – A synthetic opioid that turns skin green and scaly was recently found in St. Clair County for the first time, FOX 2 Detroit reports. Desormorphine, known as “krokodil,” is ...

What is believed to be the first reported case of a person in NSW injecting a violent concoction of synthetic drugs, which originated in Russia and leaves users with scaly, ulcer-like skin infections, ...

The horrific effects of a flesh-rotting drug have been revealed in shocking pictures. Krokodil has been described as the "world's deadliest drug" and has already claimed the lives of thousands of ...

Krokodil, also known as desomorphine, is a potentially deadly synthetic drug previously seen in the US and Russia. But now police have confirmed that it is in Victoria and local drug users have ...

A flesh-eating drug that turns people into zombie-like creatures seems to have made its way to the United States. This extremely addictive injectable opioid is called krokodil (pronounced like ...