Crime & Safety

Woman Claiming 'Crocodile' Ravaged Her Body Speaks

Heroin user Amber Neitzel tells of unwittingly using "crocodile," and how it left her body a rank, seeping mess.

Amber Neitzel used heroin for 10 years and injected it all over her body.

Then she says she ran into a Russian knock-off called "crocodile," and it nearly rotted her from the inside out.

The gaping, rank wounds on the 26-year-old's body are healing, she said, but the nightmare was enough to keep her clean for the last 16 days.

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