(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 ...

Was it a psychotic break from a mix of paranoid schizophrenia and drug use, or a bad flakka trip alone, that led a 29-year-old man to beat an 82-year-old stranger so severely that she was hospitalized ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police in south Florida have seen a growing number of cases of bizarre and uncontrollable behavior linked to a street drug called flakka, one of the newer chemicals in the booming category of ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — South Florida gained an upper hand in the fight against flakka with a combination punch: China’s recent ban of the drug dubbed “$5 insanity” and an unprecedented visit by a ...

Like bath salts before it, a new synthetic designer street drug called flakka is unleashing maniacal paranoia, rage and delirium on South Florida’s streets. Since January, flakka has given rise to a ...

South Florida gained an upper hand in the fight against flakka with a combination punch: China’s recent ban of the drug dubbed “$5 insanity” and an unprecedented visit by a delegation of Broward law ...