Flesh-Eating Drug Krokodil: Skin-Rotting Heroin Substitute Officially Reported In Canada [VIDEO]
The new flesh-eating drug krokodil has been confirmed in three separate cases in Ontario, Canada.
The lethal heroin substitute, which rots flesh from the inside out, has been confirmed in St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, according to The Huffington Post.
Two men were reportedly hospitalized in the St. Catherines case for gangrenous bodily sores associated with krokodil use, while Niagara Regional Police are investigating another possible case in their area.
The potential for a case in the Niagara Falls area is particularly troubling as the area is heavy with American tourists all year round, as the city is only located just a few miles from the U.S. border in Buffalo, N.Y. A spread across the border could prove more cases of the drug being reported in the U.S.
Enstars previously reported that the DEA does not believe the flesh-eating drug has made it to the U.S., despite reported cases being reported in recent months in Utah, Oklahoma, Arizona and Illinois.
"At this point we do not have any samples that have come back positive," Jack Riley, the special agent in charge of the DEA's Chicago field office has said. "We have not seen it. That doesn't mean we're not aggressively trying to identify it. We just haven't seen it yet."
Krokodil is made from cooking crushed codeine pills with household chemicals such as gasoline or paint thinner, which is injected in the same way heroin is. It causes green, scaly sores as the chemicals in the drug destroy blood vessels and skin.
Keep checking back for more on this story as it continues to develop.
