A synthetic drug now in the region is known for causing its users to act out with violence or other erratic behavior. Flakka is a synthetic drug that looks similar to bath salts, an illegal ...

Harrouff’s case isn’t the first time zombie-like behavior has been associated with flakka and bath salts. A 2012 incident in South Florida involving a man nicknamed “the Miami causeway ...

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 ...

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.

"The way the flakka story has been reported in most mainstream media sadly follows the typical 'drug panic' narrative: focus on extreme cases involving strange behavior or violence while failing ...

In late 2014, the synthetic drug known as flakka exploded on the scene and prompted such bizarre, violent behavior that it quickly became shorthand for lunacy. The street drug, which is similar to ...

Flakka seems to be among some of the very bad street drugs, with reports of users performing feats of supernatural strength, harming themselves and others.

Flakka’s active ingredient is a chemical compound called alpha-PVP, which is on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ’s list of the controlled substances most likely to be abused.

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 ...

WFAA got really worked up over flakka, a drug that may or may not be wreaking havoc throughout Dallas and the rest of North Texas.