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 ...

(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 ...

When a Deerfield Beach man collapsed on his back patio in a paranoid sweat after proclaiming he wanted to try ecstasy and popping a white pill, he was exhibiting typical signs of flakka intoxication.

Walking down a trash-strewn Pompano Beach thoroughfare during a recent rally against the latest street drug scourge, marchers experienced a firsthand encounter with the unfolding crisis. “See that? We ...

A year after it ravaged South Florida, flakka-- the synthetic street drug known for causing psychotic outbursts -- is virtually gone. The deaths. The hallucinating users. The arrests. All of it.

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 ...

On Monday, a man named Travis Gordon was arrested for allegedly stabbing two men in Gifford, Florida, WPBF reported. The stabbing occurred last week, and Gordon is suspected to have been high on ...

Read full article: Agreement sets stage for budget talks among state lawmakers MELBOURNE, Fla. – A 17-year-old Cocoa girl suspected of being high on a hallucinatory street drug faces felony charges ...

In 2012, bath salts became synonymous with cannibal behavior after a man thought to be high on the substance chewed the face and eyeball off of another man. Subsequent toxicology tests revealed that ...

Stories of horrific crimes resulting from drug use have been propagated by the media for over a century. Such stories began with cocaine in 1914 and were followed by "reefer madness" stories in the ...