A spur of drug-related arrests in Florida has drawn panicked media reports like flies to honey. By now you may have heard about "flakka," a cheap designer drug being sold in the Sunshine State that ...

Back in early February, a Lake Worth man stripped naked, climbed up on top of his apartment building with a handgun, and began to threaten to shoot himself and others. After hours of negotiating with ...

Embarrassing stories about flakka, the Worst Drug Ever (until the next one), keep accumulating. Two recent articles are especially notable for their completely credulous acceptance of drug warriors' ...

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 ...

DAYTONA BEACH — A synthetic drug making its way up the east coast of Florida has police worried that it will soon be the scourge of Volusia County. The drug called flakka — a name believed to be taken ...

What is “flakka?” According to authorities, this new synthetic drug, popular in places like South Florida and Australia, is America’s scariest new drug. For as little as $15 on the street, users can ...

An emergency room doctor calls it as "five-dollar insanity." A rehab director says it's the "devil's drug." On the street, it's known as flakka — a synthetic crystal imported from China that is ...

When most of us hear the word “flakka,” images of the dreadlocked bae from Love & Hip-Hop come to mind, or, if you have a connection to Latino culture, you know it’s slang for skinny. But these ...

Referred to by chemists as alpha-PVP, this scary drug is said to be like a mixture of a potent hallucinogen like LSD with a potent stimulant like ice. Users are simultaneously extremely aggressive and ...