{"id":19377,"date":"2013-10-09T22:42:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2013-10-09T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:42:53","slug":"flesh-eating-drug-krokodil-is-now-attacking-chicago-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/10\/flesh-eating-drug-krokodil-is-now-attacking-chicago-suburbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Flesh-Eating Drug Krokodil Is Now Attacking Chicago Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ku-bigpic.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19378\" alt=\"ku-bigpic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ku-bigpic.png?resize=700%2C394\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The flesh-eating drug Krokodil made its horrifying United States debut<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/flesh-eating-drug-krokodil-finally-shows-up-in-the-us-1396358829\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">two weeks ago<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">in Arizona, but as many feared, its use has spread: there have now been<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/health\/Flesh-Eating-Drug-Makes-Appearance-In-Joliet-227124291.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">three reports<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">of the drug in a Chicago suburb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Krokodil, the inexpensive \u201cheroin substitute\u201d that is really just a mix of codeine and gas or paint thinner,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/flesh-eating-drug-krokodil-finally-shows-up-in-the-us-1396358829\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">causes<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">gangrene, abscesses, and skin to fall off the bone. A hit of the drug<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heraldnews.suntimes.com\/news\/23053163-418\/doctor-krokodil-surfaces-in-will-county.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">costs only<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">$8 compared to the $25-30 premium for heroin. But when thinking about long-term investment, heroin might make more sense if you\u2019d like to keep your fucking skin. Dr. Abhin Singla of the Presence St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet tells of<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joliet.patch.com\/groups\/police-and-fire\/p\/joliet-krokodil-victims-young-middleclass--female-doctor-says\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">walking into the hospital<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">Monday when he &#8220;overheard a nurse speaking about heroin and then caught the distinctive odor of rotting flesh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">According to Dr. Singla, all the<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joliet.patch.com\/groups\/police-and-fire\/p\/joliet-krokodil-victims-young-middleclass--female-doctor-says\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">three patients<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">being treated at the hospital have<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heraldnews.suntimes.com\/news\/23053163-418\/doctor-krokodil-surfaces-in-will-county.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">similar backgrounds<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\">: they\u2019re all female, they\u2019re all between the ages of 18 and 25, and they all come from middle-class backgrounds in the suburban Joliet area. While one of the patients knew she was taking the drug, the other two\u2014<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joliet.patch.com\/groups\/police-and-fire\/p\/first-local-victims-of-flesh\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">frighteningly<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u2014did not. Joliet doctors are now<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joliet.patch.com\/groups\/police-and-fire\/p\/joliet-krokodil-victims-young-middleclass--female-doctor-says\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">in the beginning<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">of an \u201cexcruciatingly painful fight to save their arms, legs, fingers and toes from amputation and their skin from rotting away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Will County already struggles with a \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heraldnews.suntimes.com\/news\/23053163-418\/doctor-krokodil-surfaces-in-will-county.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">burgeoning<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201d heroin epidemic and officials are<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heraldnews.suntimes.com\/news\/23053163-418\/doctor-krokodil-surfaces-in-will-county.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">concerned<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000\">this might be the beginning of a much greater Krokodil problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">[<\/span><em><span style=\"color:#000000\">Screengrab via<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedoctorstv.com\/main\/content\/Flesh_Eating_Drug\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">The Doctors TV<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color:#000000\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/flesh-eating-drug-krokodil-is-now-attacking-chicago-sub-1443205547?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&amp;utm_source=gawker_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow#\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Source<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flesh-eating drug Krokodil made its horrifying United States debut\u00a0two weeks ago\u00a0in Arizona, but as many feared, its use has spread: there have now been\u00a0three..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,21,181,97],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-19377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-international","category-labor","category-us-news","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ku-bigpic.png?fit=970%2C547&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}