A young man recently turned up at a rural drug and alcohol service in New South Wales seeking help because of an infection in his arm. He said he had injected the drug Krokodil, which had not ...

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Several days ago, Krokodil, a cheap heroine substitute popular in Russia, reportedly made landfall in Arizona. The drug’s name means “crocodile” in Russian and is known for its flesh-eating tendencies ...

A few years ago, certain Australian media outlets started publishing ominous reports of a “flesh-eating drug” that had “ravaged” Russia and “left a trail of ‘zombies’ in its wake”. Such descriptions ...

Desomorphine has been in the news lately. Never heard of it? That's quite possible. But you may well have heard its street name: "Krokodil." However you know it, it's a cheap substitute for heroin ...

Krokodil has arrived in Canada, marking another spread of the intense drug that gives users a high similar to heroin but leaves them looking scaly. There have been four reported cases of krokodil in ...

Krokodil is an injectable drug that was first popularized in Russia. It is a combination of a fast-acting opiate called desomorphine and either iodine, gasoline, hydrochloric acid or paint thinner.

A young man recently turned up at a rural drug and alcohol service in New South Wales seeking help because of an infection in his arm. He said he had injected the drug Krokodil, which had not ...