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 ...

"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 ...

Flakka, drug that makes people bark and strip, wreaks havoc in Midwest, South By Elizabeth Llorente Fox News Published November 18, 2017 12:15am EST | Updated November 18, 2017 4:36pm EST ...

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 ...

Flakka, also called gravel, is a synthetic drug that is compared to cocaine but is considered even more dangerous. South Florida is hotbed of activity.

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 ...

In late 2014, the synthetic drug known as flakka exploded on the scene. But then, just as quickly as it came on the scene, flakka seems to have nearly vanished.