Last week, 5 people reported to an Illinois hospital with the same symptoms; rotten and scaly skin. Doctors believe these defects were caused by a heroin knockoff drug that spread from Russia. This drug is called Krokodil and is a cheap and easy to make drug that results in green, scaly, flesh eating skin. It hasn't yet been confirmed that these cases are because of Krokodil, but the doctor at the Illinois hospital thinks it is because the patients said they thought they were buying heroin. He also says that it's a "zombie drug" and "it eats you from the inside out". This doctor is also very concerned because it is more addictive that morphine and is about 1/3 the price of heroin, so it looks very appealing to buy. Similar cases were reported about a month ago in Arizona and Utah, and with these cases breaking out in Illinois, it looks as if it will only keep spreading across the US.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/10/11/erin-dnt-rowlands-krokodil-drug-comes-from-russia-to-u-s-.cnn.html
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