The World's Deadliest Drug: Inside a Krokodil Cookhouse
The World's Deadliest Drug: Inside a Krokodil Cookhouse
About a decade ago, Russian doctors began to notice strange wounds on the bodies of some drug addicts—patches of flesh turning dark and scaly, like a crocodile's—in the hospitals of Siberia and the Russian Far East. It didn't take them long to …
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China still dealing with the legacy of Mao Zedong, 120 years after his birth
"In our society, there is a huge rich-poor gap, corruption, moral degradation, drug addiction, prostitution – it's a mess. They need to relearn from … "Mao insisted that 'to serve the people' is the basic mission," he wrote in a recent essay. Xi's …
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Inside Llweyn Davis, reviewed: The Coen Brothers' poignant tale succeeds …
He shares the ride with a 300 pound heroin addict (John Goodman, a dark-minded stentorian jazz snob who lumbers about with two claw-gripped canes) and a dark mumbling poet who leaves the film after being rousted alongside the interstate by a highway …
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