FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — 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.

And after fears it would reach Australian shores, dreaded designer drug flakka has arrived. Flakka — also known as gravel or alpha-PVP and one of many “bath salt” drugs around — has already ...

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 ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WSAZ) - It's being called the "Devil's Drug", and some Kentucky sheriffs and police officers call it one of the worst drugs they've seen in their careers. Now they're sounding the ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Drug dealers are supplying Broad Ripple’s homeless community with a powerful psychostimulant known to cause bizarre and violent behavior, according to a man who said he knew at ...

Nearly one percent of high school seniors report using Flakka, a highly potent and potentially dangerous synthetic drug, according to a new study. Nearly 1 percent of high school seniors report using ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. (KRON, AP) – A man who authorities say crashed his car into a Florida jail in order to visit some friends apparently got what he wanted. Indian River County Sheriff’s Office spokesman ...

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 male ...

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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 ...

It seems that no community has found a safe harbor during this country’s heroin and opioid crisis. It does not matter if you live in the richest community or the poorest community, families in all ...