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 ...

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 ...

"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.

Earlier this week, reports surfaced that Austin Harrouff, a 19-year-old Florida State University student, stabbed a married couple to death in their Jupiter, Florida home, and then gnawed at 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 ...

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 ...

Although not medically proven, flakka has been associated with cases of cannibalism because people thought to be under the influence show side-effects linked to the synthetic drug. A man was ...

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 ...