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Flakka is made from a chemical cousin of the amphetamine-like drug found in bath salts (pictured above).
There's a new drug in town called flakka.
Many reports are saying this new designer drug is sweeping the state of Florida: Broward Health Medical Center â?? Florida's public hospital system and one of the largest in the nation â?? now sees an estimated 25 to 30 flakka patients a day, NBC News reports.
The mind-altering substance has been popping up in other states as well, including Ohio and Texas.
There, it goes by the name "gravel" because it looks like the gravel pebbles you'd use to decorate the bottom of an aquarium.
Use of the drug, which can be snorted, smoked, injected, swallowed, or eaten as flakka-laced gummy candies, has been linked with serious â?? and sometimes deadly â?? behavioral problems:
In April police arrested a man on flakka running naked across an intersection to escape the imaginary people he said were chasing him.
In February, a man on flakka was caught on camera trying to kick in the glass doors of Florida's Fort Lauderdale police headquarters.
And last March, a man on flakka reportedly impaled himself on a metal fence.
If these behaviors remind you of the ones that made headlines a few years ago with the appearance of drugs called "bath salts" â?? it isn't a coincidence. The two drugs are closely related.
What's it made of??
Flakka is made from a compound called alpha-PVP, a chemical cousin of cathinone, the amphetamine-like drug found in bath salts.
Here's the worst part: While the active ingredient in bath salts was officially banned in 2011, its newer relative, alpha-PVP, was not.
That means it is legal in any state without its own ban.
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