Flakka Side Effects. There’s a new recreational drug out there that’s been hogging the headlines lately because it is more dangerous than “bath salts”. It’s called Flakka.
Here’s what Jim Hall, an epidemiologist at the Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities at Nova Southeastern University is saying about the drug’s effects on the human body (via CBS):
We’re starting to see a rash of cases of a syndrome referred to as excited delirium. This is where the body goes into hyperthermia, generally a temperature of 105 degrees. The individual becomes psychotic, they often rip off their clothes and run out into the street violently and have an adrenaline-like strength and police are called and it takes four or five officers to restrain them. Then once they are restrained, if they don’t receive immediate medical attention they can die.
One of the kind of 21st century trends in drug supply is creating new brand names like flakka and building its popularity and then selling anything. Elsewhere in the country [flakka is] actually quite a popular drug. It’s often sold under the street name gravel because of its crystal, small, lumped-up appearance that looks like grainy pebbles or gravel in an aquarium.
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