She have been working at PEOPLE for seven years. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, Us Weekly and Entertainment Weekly. Authorities have speculated the drug “flakka” could be ...

Flakka is a designer drug that can be snorted ... and the recent round of overdoses that hospitalized a dozen people at Wesleyan University. Hall says the drug is designed to cause the brain ...

Last spring, three or four people were hospitalized every ... the chemical name for flakka, along with 115 other street drugs. The United States and Europe put pressure on China to ban these ...

Like bath salts before it, a new synthetic designer street drug called flakka is unleashing maniacal paranoia, rage and delirium on South Florida’s streets. Since January, flakka has given rise ...

"These drugs quickly get a bad reputation, and the demand dies out" Similarly, there have been multiple news stories about people on flakka running nude and engaging in other bizarre behavior.

Vasquez matter-of-factly describes flakka—a.k.a. alpha-PVP, a synthetic version of cathinone, the active ingredient in the stimulant shrub qat—as "a dangerous designer drug that turns people ...

However, what a lot of young people don't know is that they have been using Flakka or other "bath salts," or both, without knowing it, as these drugs are common adulterants, in "Molly" – the ...

A girl in Melbourne, Florida, ran through the street screaming that she was Satan while on a flakka trip. Authorities in the state are warning people about the dangers of the drug. Florida seems ...

Flakka’s side effects, however, are far more sinister; the drug can induce seizures, paranoia, and delusions, and cause people to act with bizarre, even psychotic-like, aggressive behavior that ...

Some people have gone into cardiac arrest. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Wade Sparks told Fox News that flakka "fell off the map for a little while." Sparks said those who manufacture ...

Flakka, alpha-PVP ... It could be intentional or accidental." Since the drug is manufactured, often in makeshift labs, people trying to make molly, bath salts or some other synthetic drug ...