Bolingbrook 10-17-13

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Our Community, Our News

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Vol. 7 No. 14

H E A LT H WATC H

LO CA L E V E N T S

Flesh eating drug now in Will County New drug reported to rot skin from inside out

story By Laura Katauskas | Staff Reporter

Residents participate in annual Take Back the Night event

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Photos by LAURA KATAUSKAS/BUGLE STAFF

A woman carries a poster of photos of Rachel Mellon, a 13-year-girl believed to be a victim of abuse, who went missing in 1996 and has never been found.

ear is a lonely and depressing place and one victims of abuse rarely escape. Every nine seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten, national statistics show, and more than half of disabled men and women are victims of abuse. The sobering statistics continue—a parent or a caregiver causes 80 percent of child abuse. Sobering still, these statistics are not on the decline but rather a constant in today’s world. Groups like Citizens Against Abuse desperately want to change that, bringing awareness through its 15 th annual Take Back the Night rally and march Oct. 10. See SILENCE, page 3

A deadly, homemade drug known as krokodil has made its way from Russia to the U.S. and is now in the Will County region, according to officials from Presence St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet. “As of late as last week, the first cases – a few people in Utah and Arizona – were reported to have been using the heroin-like drug, which rots the skin from the inside out,” said Abhin Singla, MD, Boardcertified Internist, Director of Addition Services at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, and Medical Director of The Promises of Recovery, a treatment facility. Singla has begun treating at least three local area patients who have reported use of the drug and have presented with manifestation of krokodil.


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