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M-18: The New Street Drug With Crazy Potency

W-18: The New Street Drug
With Crazy Potency

W-18: The New Street Drug With Crazy Potency

Canada seizes enough for hundreds of millions of pills

(Newser) - Get ready to hear much more about a powerful new street drug called W-18. Police in Edmonton, Canada, this week announced a huge seizure of it made in December—4 kilograms, or enough for hundreds of millions of pills, reports the Globe and Mail . The drug is a synthetic opiate...

US Sisters: We
Took Flesh-Eating
Drug Krokodil

US Sisters: We Took Flesh-Eating Drug Krokodil

They're among 5 treated for drug-related disease in Chicago-area hospital

(Newser) - More American users of the flesh-rotting Russian street drug Krokodil have emerged. Two sisters from Joliet, Ill., are among five who were treated for the drug's nasty side effects at a Chicago-area hospital last week. Amber and Angie Neitzel, both heroin addicts, say they thought they'd been...

Flesh-Rotting Russian Drug Linked to Okla. Death

Oct 15, 2013 3:48 AM CDT

Flesh-Rotting Russian Drug Linked to Okla. Death

'Krokodil' rumored to have surfaced in 4 states

(Newser) - Krokodil—the Russian street drug with effects so horrific it makes meth look almost wholesome—may have already killed at least one person in the US, Time reports. A close friend of a man who died from drug abuse in the state last year said he had been using the...

Flesh-Rotting
Russian Drug
Surfaces in US

Sep 26, 2013 11:20 AM CDT

Flesh-Rotting Russian Drug Surfaces in US

Two cases of Krokodil use found in Arizona

(Newser) - A new street drug has come to America, but we're going to go ahead and predict it's not going to be the next big thing. The Banner Poison Control Center in Arizona says it's had two reports of Krokodil use, the first known reports of the drug...

Overdose Deaths Spike

Jul 29, 2008 8:35 AM CDT

Overdose Deaths Spike

Problem linked to patients sent home early with powerful prescriptions

(Newser) - The number of deaths caused by fatal combinations of prescription medications with alcohol or street drugs has exploded in recent years in part because patients are being released from hospitals early, according to researchers. Such deaths rocketed from 92 in 1983 to 3,792 in 2004, reports MSNBC.