Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 15:16 | | 
Barely a day passes without news of yet another manufactured drug flooding our UK market place — 'plant-food', meow meow, crystal meth — causing more damage, fear and confusion in the seemingly unwinnable battle against spiralling drug use and addiction, writes Clea Myers.
Before I read it in The Independent, I had no idea that Russia accounted for a third of the world's heroin addicts. And now a cheaper, man-made form nicknamed krokodil (crocodile) is taking over from the customary heroin imported from Afghanistan