In my Forbes column this week, I explain how the bogus story of a U.S. krokodil outbreak was born and why it will not die. I do not address every alleged krokodil sighting in detail because some of ...

Diana, Zhanna’s daughter, lives with her grandmother Lyudmila in an apartment in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Senior Correspondent Early this spring, when the snow began to melt in the Russian city of ...

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“Zombie Apocalypse Drug Reaches U.S.,” read one headline. “Flesh-Eating 'Zombie' Drug 'Kills You from the Inside Out,” blared another.“The Most Horrifying Drug in the World Comes to the U.S.,” warned ...

A local task force formed months ago to address the proliferation of bath salts is now concerned about the spread of a new deadly drug. The Greater Dayton Area Hospitals Association Synthetic Drug ...

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Here is a transcript of a Q&A; about the drug krokodil with Dr. Michael Lynch, a toxicologist and the director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center.(Click here to read the main story.)Networks have covered ...

Krokodil -- the deadly flesh-eating drug that is believed to have arrived in the United States -- may have just hit Canada. According to the Huffington Post, there have been three cases of krokodil ...

A highly addictive drug whose name derives from the green, scaly sores that develop on users’ rotting flesh was reported to have found a toehold in the United States this week. In Phoenix, physicians ...

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