Flesh-eating 'zombie' drug 'kills you from the inside out'(CNN.com)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/health/krokodil-zombie-drug/?iref=obinsite

While I was on CNN.com, I came across an article that was near my home town, Oswego, Illinois. Twenty minutes outside of Oswego is Joliet, Illinois. In the past week there have been five cases of the new zombie drug, krokodil. This is a flesh eating disease that kills humans from the inside out. This drug causes serious damage to the soft tissue and veins, and can give a person gangrene or necrosis. The soft tissue damage seems to happen around the injection site. The drug clumps in the veins and doesn't completely dissolve in the blood. The drug originally came from Russia and is illegally getting into the USA. First we saw it arise in Utah and New Mexico, and then most recently it spread to Joliet, Illinois. The drug is a knock-off of Heroine and is 1/3 of the price of actual Heroine. Its key ingredients are gasoline, paint thinner, and bathroom cleaner. "In Russia, users frequently are young people with relatively short drug histories, the study found. Medical help is often only sought after users are in the late stages of their addiction and end up with severe mutilations, rotting gums, bone infections, decayed structure of the jaw and facial bones, sores and ulcers on the forehead and skull as well as rotting ears, noses and lips and liver and kidney problems."(CNN.com) My thoughts on this topic are very concerning because, living just twenty minutes away from the hospital it shows how real and close these dangers are. This is just the beginning of the drug. With many people not being able to afford their heroin addiction this drug will spread knowing that it is the third of the price.