Flesh-eating ‘zombie’ drug ‘kills you from the inside out

Flesh-eating ‘zombie’ drug ‘kills you from the inside out

Oct 31

(CNN) — A flesh-eating drug that turns people into zombie-like creatures seems to have made its way to the United States. This extremely addictive injectable opioid is called krokodil (pronounced like crocodile) or desomorphine. It’s so named in part because users report black or green scaly skin as a side effect. This weekend five people were hospitalized in the Chicago suburb of...