Kids, don’t do drugs, or else one day, you’ll be on the news, admitting to an audience of millions that you thought you were pumping your body full of heroin, when in fact, you were shooting Krokodil. In case you’ve been blissfully unaware of drugs named after St. Vincent songs, Krokodil is a “cheap heroin knockoff from Russia known to cause such extreme gangrene and abscesses that a user’s muscles, tendons, and bones can become exposed.” It literally eats your flesh, and now it’s here in the United States, definitely in Chicago and maybe in New York.
Below is a clip from WLS-TV, via Gawker, that includes the sentence, “…maggots coming out of his leg.” It’s basically an outtake from the worst Justified scene never filmed, and it’s terrible. I’m sorry.
