An intravenous, highly addictive drug from Russia — one that can destroy tissue and blood vessels, turning skin greenish and scaly — may be showing up in the United States. Doctors in Arizona last ...

Authorities are warning the public about desomorphine — slang name, krokodil ― a semi-synthetic opioid that has the sedating impact of heroin but can leave a user's skin scaly, green and rotting. The ...

Having spent the last decade wreaking havoc in Russia, Krokodil – the cheap, addictive, heroin-like opioid(that also happens to eat your flesh) – has made ...

Since September officials around the country have been reporting sightings of krokodil, the notorious homemade desomorphine concoction that produces, along with a heroin-like high, gruesome pictures ...

A synthetic drug from Russia has reached the United States for the first time after reports of two cases involving the drug were discovered in Phoenix. Desomorphine, usually referred to by its street ...

New reports suggest drug users in America have begun using a notorious, flesh-destroying drug that originated in Russia. In an interview with Arizona's KLTV, Dr. Frank LoVecchio, the co-medical ...