Just under 1% of American teenagers are knowingly using the synthetic drug flakka, according to new research. "The main finding was that less than 1% of high school seniors are estimated to have used ...

Florida, the state that keeps giving us the best in “WTF” news, is back on the map because of a drug called “flakka.” A naked 34-year-old Fort Lauderdale man was stopped by police last Saturday (April ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One man ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree and told police he was the mythical god Thor. Another ran nude down a busy city street in ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It’s one of the newest designer drugs to hit the streets, and it is running rampant throughout Florida. The synthetic drug is extremely dangerous and only takes a little to have ...

Police in Brevard County and around Florida are keeping an eye on the spread of a synthetic drug that has been known to cause exceedingly strange behavior and even death for its users. Flakka has been ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - For decades, South Florida has battled drug traffickers who ship boatloads of cocaine from South America. Now the region is dealing with a new epidemic - cheap, synthetic drugs that ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It's a new drug. And it's a killer. Known on the street as "flakka," the synthetic concoction is hitting hard in Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and other parts of the country.

When flakka makes the news, it's never a good thing. In fact, it can be downright bizarre - including this case in Florida, where a man apparently using the drug offered a ride to the woman whose car ...

Police in eastern Missouri report two new cases of people using the street drug flakka, a synthetic bath salt known to cause irrational behavior. Last fall in Sullivan, Missouri, four people under the ...

Just under 1% of American teenagers are knowingly using the synthetic drug flakka, according to new research. “The main finding was that less than 1% of high school seniors are estimated to have used ...