Weekly Dose: Krokodil, the Russian ‘flesh-eating’ drug, makes a rare appearance in Australia


The use of Krokodil has fluctuated throughout the 21st Century. From shutterstock.com
What is “Krokodil,” and should Australian health stakeholders be worried? asks Julaine Allan from Charles Sturt University A young man recently turned up at a rural drug and alcohol service in New South Wales seeking help because of an infection in his arm. He said he had injected the drug Krokodil, which had not previously

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