It comes with flakka name. In some parts of the country, these drugs are called gravel or gravel because it is shaped like a pebble-sized pieces of white crystals in aquarium.
It is manufactured to resemble cocaine. However, in 2012, a group of related synthetic drug maker banned. Because, flakka is potentially far more dangerous than cocaine.
"It is very difficult to control the dose in the proper use flakka," said Jim Hall, an epidemiologist drug abuse at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
"Just a little difference in the number of doses consumed could cause differences between sakau and dying. It's very dangerous, "he said.
Fewer drug overdose, whether it is smoked, injected, or sucked through the nose, can cause extreme symptoms. Some experts call it "excited delirium", there was a surge of adrenaline to the extreme can lead to violent behavior. In this condition, the body temperature can soar very high.
Venting anger and strength
It is important that attention is flakka cause users to feel has super strength and fury that seemed to explode like the Hulk.
Stories about flakka started much heard. A man in South Florida destructive storm door and afterwards admitted he was under the influence of flakka.
A woman in Melbourne, Florida, ran in the middle of the street and shouting that he is the devil, when under the influence of flakka. Authorities in Florida to warn everyone about the dangers of this drug.
Hall said there were about three to four people were admitted to hospital in a day in Browards Country, Florida, and the more time the weekend comes.
In addition to Florida, flakka cases have also been reported in Alabama, Mississippi, and New Jersey.
The pretty of devastating
Flakka, derived from the Spanish word meaning a beautiful woman (la Flaca), contains a chemical compound called MDPV, the main ingredient maker of bath salts or bath salts. This chemical compound stimulates parts of the brain that regulate mood, hormones dopamine and serotonin.
"This effect will flood the brain," said Hall. Cocaine and methamphetamine have a way of working together in the brain. However, the chemical compound on flakka leave a more lasting effect.
Although such effects caused sakau flakka only lasted a few hours, it can occur permanently in the brain. Do not just stay in the brain, these drugs, said Hall, also destroys the brain.
Flakka will roam in the brain longer than cocaine, so did the level of brain damage, which would be much larger.
Another important thing to look out, flakka potentially cause other side effects are no less serious kidney health. Flakka also can cause muscle rupture, as a result of hyperthermia. Experts fear that the flakka users who overdose may be on dialysis for the rest of their lives.
Such as synthetic drugs on umumya, most flakka seems to come from China and sold over the internet or at a gas station. Flakka can be obtained for $ 3-5 dollars for a single dose. It's somewhat cheaper than cocaine.
"Sellers flakka select those young and poor to become their target, even asking homeless as a drug," said Hall.
Although the Drug Enforcement Administration has banned flakka drug maker can still find the gap.
"They can write 'not for human consumption' on the label of the drug," said Lucas Watterson, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Substance Abuse Research at Temple University School of Medicine.
It will probably take several years, he said, to obtain the necessary data so that federal agencies can issue an official ban on the circulation flakka.
"The problem is, when one is banned or illegal drugs, drug manufacturers responded by producing a number of different alternatives," Watterson said.
Source: CNN, kompas.com
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