A 19 year old Florida State University student, Austin
Harrouff attacked a married couple in their Florida, home stabbed them to death
and literally kept chewing on the male victim’s face.
Officials believed that he was high on “Flakka”, a highly
addictive designer drug that causes paranoia and psychosis. He was grunting
like an animal while being arrested.
They say the former wrestler
and high school football player will
have to face murder charges once he is
discharged from hospital.
What is ‘Flakka aka Gravel’
and why it seems more dangerous than Coke.
Flakka is the name of a new designer drug that is becoming
wildly popular. Flakka is often marketed
legally as ‘Bath salts or Plant food’. It is a synthetic drug that creates
unprecedented hallucinations. It has been circumscribed now as the most
dangerous drug that is available.
Flakka’s official name is Pyrrolidinopentiophenone which is
also known as alpha-PVP or PVP. The drug has similarities to amphetamine and
cocaine, but has stronger effects. The active substance is called Cathinone and
is derived from the Khat plant, whose leaves since the thirteenth century in
Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are used as a stimulant.
This drug has become a nuisance especially in the United States.
Users quickly cause violence due to the effects of this drug, because they seem
to step outside themselves, be noisy and put themselves and others at risk. The exhilaration caused by Flakka is way more
potent than naturally derived drug cocaine. As per Dr. Indra Cidambi, Addiction
Medicine Expert and M.D at Center for
Network Therapy, Flakka is ten times more powerful than coke and cheaper and that
is how it is more popular among college-age-adults. The high of Flakka is
pretty high and takes several days even from getting rid of it.
Dangers of using
Flakka
The greatest danger of Flakka is that it costs almost
nothing and that is why it is so
popular among college students, low income group and homeless population. The
user experiences with Flakka are very intense. Users get a first extreme
euphoria. Users think they are invincible. The euphoria is followed by deep,
deep fears. The increase in body temperature to fever pitch causes people to take
off their clothes and run on roads due to fear. The drug is inexpensive and
causes a haze that can last three to four hours. Doctors warn of the violent
action caused because of these & five
dollar insanity; Users are paranoid and psychotic, hallucinating, have tantrums,
start to shake wildly and almost feel like having superhuman powers. Flakka is
much stronger and more dangerous than ecstasy or methamphetamine.
Symptoms of the use
of Flakka
·
Increased heart rate, 150 beats per minute and
more
·
Increased body temperature
·
Elevated blood pressure with values up to
230/160
·
Rapid breathing
·
Kidney failure
·
Dilated
pupils
·
Ego inflation, to feel everything to be
invincible
·
Paranoia
and feeling to be haunted
·
Extreme hallucinations
·
Obsessive addiction
·
Increased
libido
Is it illegal
In the longer run, Dr. Indra Cidambi says illegality may not
matter as we can see Drug
detox producers will alter the chemical structure of the gravel drug
even slightly to circumvent the law. You wait and then you get something else
after couple of days, ‘a cheaper substitute’ as mentioned by Dr. Indra Cidambi.
This is how MDMA-or Molly lead to Bath Salts.
The drug a-PVP has
been banned by at least 20 other countries or regulated in some or other way
and in March 2014, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had placed a temporary ban on a-PVP and nine of synthetic cathinones, still
the designer drug Fakka is classified as a Schedule I Controlled Substance by
the DEA as of May of this year.
Source : Center For Network Therapy
Address : B,
333 Cedar Ave #3, Middlesex, NJ 08846
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