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 ...

“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 ...

The following photographs were taken in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2013. Alexei, age 33, injects a dose of krokodil. Because of his dependence on krokodil, Alexei has injuries and swelling around his ...

Reality bites hard for krokodil-crisis hawkers. After reports went viral that an Illinois doctor had seen three cases of krokodil use, regional Drug Enforcement Administration officers quickly hit the ...

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 ...

Burt Likko points us to the horrifying story of a new synthetic drug in Russia known as Krokodil. With heroin supplies running extremely low thanks to the efforts to quash exports out of Afghanistan, ...

Over the past few months there has been a number of concerning reports that desomorphine, a.k.a. "krokodil," a homemade alternative to heroin that is believed to have originated in Russia, may have ...

More cases of Krokodil use are reportedly popping up around the United States, prompting some medical professionals to warn that the addictive, poisonous drug has reached American shores. Krokodil, ...

Krokodil, the cheap heroin substitute, is believed to have made the switch to the US after a number of cases were reported in Arizona. The drug captured press headlines a few years ago following ...

Oleg glances furtively around him and, confident that nobody is watching, slips inside the entrance to a decaying Soviet-era block of flats, where Sasha is waiting for him. Ensconced in the dingy ...