Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flakka is a synthetic drug that was developed in the 1960s and is commonly known today as a "bath salt." This synthetic drug is ...

(CNN) — It goes by the name flakka. In some parts of the country, it is also called “gravel” because of its white crystal chunks that have been compared to aquarium gravel. The man-made drug causes a ...

FT. LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – Fort Lauderdale Police said a call for a domestic disturbance of a man holding a woman hostage with a weapon ended with that man shot at the hands of police. Investigators ...

When details of an attack allegedly involving a Florida State University student who police say stabbed an innocent couple to death then tried to eat the face of one of the victims were released ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It's a new drug. And it's a killer. Known on the street as "flakka," the synthetic concoction is hitting hard in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and other parts of the country.

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – Broward County, the epicenter of the dangerous designer drug Flakka, is taking charge in its fight against the designer drug. The Broward Grand Jury is preparing to ...

A horrific story out of Florida on Tuesday has shined a spotlight on a “designer drug” whose effects can be so extreme that some call it “the devil’s drug.” A man in Tequesta, Fla., was arrested and ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. — The Melbourne Police Department issued a warning to the public Friday about the dangers of "excited delirium," one day after two men were reported to be behaving in an erratic manner ...

A Florida State University student allegedly stabbed a couple to death after possibly taking flakka, Monday Char Adams is a former reporter at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2019. Lindsay Kimble is the ...

A drug known as flakka or gravel is creeping into parts of Kentucky. The powerful synthetic drug has similar components to bath salts and can cause dangerous psychosis and hallucinations.The narcotics ...

Flakka is a synthetic drug that was developed in the 1960s and is commonly known today as a “bath salt.” This synthetic drug is sold on the streets in a variety of forms, as cheap substitutes for ...

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