heroin

Illinois Sisters Speak Out About Their Krokodil Use

Lacey Donohue · 10/15/13 10:25PM

After last week’s announcement that Krokodil had made its way to suburban Chicago, two sisters have confirmed that they are two of the five people being treated at the Presence St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet for complications from the drug.

West Coast Heroin Now Comes With Free Botulism

Jeff Neumann · 09/15/11 04:37AM

Bad news for West Coast junkies (is there really any other kind of news for junkies?): Two cases of suspected botulism in Seattle have been blamed on tainted black tar heroin, in addition to four recently in Texas, according to the Los Angeles Times. It's especially bad because the only real way to find out your stash is tainted is to contract botulism!

Heroin Mill Employees Make $5K Per Week, Get Free Meals

Lauri Apple · 09/06/11 06:56AM

Just like everything else in America, our thriving heroin industry has gone corporate and lost its edge. Today's smack-dealing "associate" works in the suburbs, toils long hours, and puts up with coworkers' kids. Might as well work at a start-up, or a bank.

Did This Woman Blow Heroin On Her Cat Until It Died?

Seth Abramovitch · 07/07/11 11:54PM

A 21-year-old woman from Boulder is currently in police custody for having allegedly blown heroin smoke on her boyfriend's cat, Muffin, until it succumbed to a massive overdose.

Flesh-Eating Drugs Hit U.S., Russia

Max Read · 06/21/11 06:36PM

You should really stop doing cocaine. Not because it's addictive, or anything, but because it's likely laced with levamisole, a veterinary drug used for de-worming livestock, and it will make your flesh rot off.

Impressive Woman Allegedly Hides Heroin, $51.22 in Vagina

Max Read · 03/17/11 11:51PM

Police in Pennsylvania say they found "54 bags of heroin, 31 empty bags used to package heroin, 8.5 prescription pills and $51.22" inside the vagina of one Karin Mackaliunas, 27, of Scranton. If this seems to you like a rather unwise place to keep one's heroin (or one's change, for that matter), know that Ms. Mackaliunas seems to have realized the same thing after only a brief period of time; she allegedly hid her contraband while being transported to the police station after being arrested for drug possession, but by the time she arrived at headquarters, it seems she was reconsidering her path of action: