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NEWS Gulden stays on as village manager
SPORTS Spartans fall to Plainfield East Page 13
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OCTOBER 17, 2013
Vol. 8 No. 15
H E A LT H WATC H
Flesh eating drug now in Will County New drug reported to rot skin from inside out story By Laura Katauskas | Staff Reporter
ear is a lonely and depressing place and 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.
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, Board-certified Internist, Director of Addition Services at Presence
See SILENCE, page 10
See DRUG, page 5
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.