Hard on the heels of the successful war against the designer drug flakka, an opioid epidemic is gripping Broward County. Last year, opioids killed 582 people, almost two a day, in Broward. Craig ...

Another reason to be happy we live in Central Florida: We don’t have Broward County’s problems. At least not yet. According to a report from the Broward State Attorney’s office, a grand jury was ...

HOLLYWOOD — Nearly as quickly as flakka burst onto Broward County's street-drug scene, unleashing mania that had users stripping naked in the streets and racing from packs of imagined killers, the ...

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 ...

Flakka, part of cathinone class, is a very addictive substance which causes users to display bizarre and psychotic behaviors; South Florida has recently seen a rash of these cases and appears to be ...

Burstein says the constantly-changing nature of Molly and flakka have made it difficult for her office, and other health professionals, to track its use and impact here. No one thinks it is as ...

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Florida authorities call it '$5 Insanity.' A drug called 'flakka' is becoming an increasingly popular drug that's threatening not only communities, but also emergency personnel who ...

In 2012, bath salts became synonymous with cannibal behavior after a man thought to be high on the substance chewed the face and eyeball off of another man. Subsequent toxicology tests revealed that ...

What was in the methylone capsules the Martin County Sheriff's Office says 19-year-old Nico Gallo took right before a violent attack? "That's one of the challenges you're seeing in Martin County right ...

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 ...

It’s so potent that it is sometimes used to tranquilize elephants. And it’s so lethal that it’s killing IV drug users before they can remove the needles from their arms. It sent more people to their ...