Flesh eating "krokodil" drug makes it to the U.S.?

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Warning: The photo at the top of this FoxNews.com article is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/1...-report-nightmare-drug-krokodil-surfacing-in/​

Even with a new batch of purported cases of Krokodil being used in the U.S., federal authorities say they are skeptical that the nightmare drug that originated in Russia has reached American soil.

Fears that the drug — which is made by cooking codeine with various toxic chemicals, including lighter fluid, gasoline and industrial cleaners — could make its way to the United States have mounted since 2011, when a Drug Enforcement Administration official told FoxNews.com it was on the agency's radar overseas. But even with a Joliet, Ill., drug treatment physician going public this week with word that he's treating three users of the drug, the DEA is not ready to recognize it as an immediate threat.

“We, the DEA, are not seeing cases of it,” agency spokeswoman Dawn Dearden told FoxNews.com. “Nothing’s been turned into any of our labs. As far as the DEA is concerned, we have not seen any cases.”

First heard of this drug during my 2011 CEUs courses. This is bad stuff, and if there is even a hint that it has made landfall in the U.S., the DEA needs to be doing something about it instead of sitting on its collective posterior and saying "I don't believe it."

A synthetic form of morphine that is estimated to by far more potent than clinical morphine, "krokodil" leaves lesions on the skin, gangrenous flesh and a craving that is more powerful even than meth or cocaine. And the DEA says, "I don't believe it"? Because nothing's been turned into their labs? What do they want, stomach swabs from cadavers? These clowns need to get another day job. This one has made them cynical and lazy.