Flakka: The Designer Drug Destroying Communities

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[chaselandry]

I've responded as a medic to a flakka call. We fought a 90ish pound girl for 45 minutes to attempt to sedate and restrain her. 2 medical units and 3 police officers. She broke her own hand escaping from the cuffs before I responded as backup. She thought we were demons attempting to drag her to hell. Ketamine seemed to slow her down slightly but ramp up the hallucinations. She was unnaturally strong. Absolutely terrifying.

[vic]

When a doctor in Florida calls this "the worst drug I've ever seen", that's *really* saying something.

[MZ-zuwk]

I've done this drug before under the impression that it was Molly. It was extremely stimulating, but without the strong euphoria associated with something like Amphetamine or Cocaine. It was actually very disphoric and dull. My body was very stimulated and my heart was racing, but I felt really, really paranoid and jittery. It lasted about 6 hours total, and the whole high felt like a really bad Meth comedown. I ended up taking some Ativan and drinking a few beers to go to sleep that night, and the next day, I felt extremely depressed and unmotivated. I found out later, that it was a synthetic stimulant from China called aPVP. It was one of the worst drug experiences I've ever had, and since then, I've never trusted anything sold as Molly, or anything sold on the street in general. Looking back at moments like this makes my sobriety a lot easier. I haven't touched a hard drug in years and I don't drink anymore either. It's a much better life when I'm clear headed.

[FoxygenSupply]

My mother is a long time drug user. I have only seen her a few times in my adult life, but she briefly came home to make an effort to get clean. While she stayed with us, she told me that she had done flakka twice. She described how both times she had gotten so hot she stripped naked, jumped the fence into someone’s back yard and got into their pool to cool down. She is still in Fort Lauderdale to this day because the drugs are cheapest there. Don’t do drugs kids

[dustins]

When I was a cop we got called to a neighborhood for a woman screaming and incoherent, found out she had done Flakka. Our priority was to contain her until paramedics could sedate, I remember fighting with her and the strength she had. She was convinced we had attacked her children and knocked my body cam clear off my vest, she would scream incoherently but she still knew who we were - at one point I had control of her left arm and was trying to get her into the ambulance and she stopped entirely got real somber and goes "that really hurts" and then started screaming this ungodly scream again. It was the creepiest thing to see someone snap out of the high for one second and then go back to screaming. The EMS staff and the hospital had to hit her with so many sedatives just to get her in a position to help her.

[Crowwalker]

As a paramedic for over a decade, I dealt with this drug twice and bore the scars on my back from one patient who had fallen out of a 3rd story window and landed on his back, and was unconscious when I arrived. When I turned my back to him to grab equipment out of my Thomas Pack he grabbed a piece of window glass and slashed me across my back that took 10 staples to close. It took me still bleeding my partner 3 cops and on K9 to subdue him. He had 2 fractured disks, a cracked pelvis, and a broken arm throughout all of this. I dealt with many other drugs and by far this was the worst. The other time I dealt with it was less volient, the patient was naked and sitting under an oak tree and was shoving acorns up his anus, and when I got there was trying to do the same with his penis.

[josephjucker]

You can identify a crazy drug when it's side effects include things like simultaneous paranoia and invincibility

[lucisferre]

About 15 years ago I took something that wasn't what it was supposed to be (I think) anyhow, I fled my buddy's house BAREFOOT without saying a word and proceeded to RUN down paved streets and climb and hide in trees along the 6 or 7 mile distance home while escaping imagined pursuers. It took over a week before my feet healed enough to walk at a an almost regular pace again, without wincing in pain for every short shuffled step. Might have been this stuff. Not sure. Yes, it was Florida.

[Blacksheep-Ba-Ba]

I have been recovered from drugs for many years. I recently ran into an old friend who has decided to become sober. She told me that she became addicted to flaka- meth and fentanyl.
Then she showed me her arm.
I have never seen anything so disgusting!!
All her skin on her arm was gone.
-Just muscle that looked dried out.
I didn't know anyone could survive without skin, She was awaiting skin graphs. If she doesn't lose her arm, it would be a miracle.
She told me she started picking her skin because of hallucinations on flaka.
Thank God I am done with drugs!!

[TheDesisgarf]

I naively took that shit in my late teenage years. I completely lost my shit and my homie had to yell to our other friends to come help out to control me, now keep in mind, my buddy is about a foot taller and 110 pounds heavier than myself, and he still went on about how difficult it was to keep me down.
They tied me to the largest sofa they could find, using ropes, tape wraps and adhesive tape, while tying blocks to the sofa so I wouldn’t flip it over.
It was a nightmare of an experience and the thing that frightens me the most is thinking what would’ve happened if it was my friend that took the drug, just imagine being 5’7, about 140 pounds and having to control a dude built like LeBron James.

[moomoomollie]

This is way more effective than any anti drug talk I've had in school

[michaelthompson]

Can we take a moment to talk about that absolute rollercoaster of an intro. How does he deliver that with a straight face. "A man was running naked through the streets" as one does, casual Tuesday afternoon. Wild

[sixkicksfightertricks]

Flakka user: feels invincible
Also flakka user: terrified of imaginary pursuers.

[adnanjaved]

I am an ER doc who did residency training in FL 2014-2017. This drug dominated for at least a couple years and was the number one cause of what we ended up calling “agitated delirium”. The only thing that worked in truly sedating these people was very high doses of Ketamine. I dont see it much anymore, really hope it doesnt make a comeback.

[sirvilhelmofyonderland]

I tried some of these “designer drugs” because I could buy them online. Thinking they weren’t as harmful as coke or heroin. I was wrong. Dead wrong. I lost my family, my home, job, car, all my money, and near the end, , , I lost my mind. 7 years sober I’m just now putting my life back together.

[rosella]

My friends who tried natural substances were able to quit with help. Of the ones who tried synthetic drugs, more of them went insane and died than ever got clean.

[alexlevinson]

When I was a heroin addict in Florida, I lived in a Haitian community, and they LOVED that stuff. They were all ‘flockin’. When I was hanging out with them if always take a hit or two, and have even tried ti shoot it, but it never really did that much to me. That being said, I’m not sure how much it’ll effect when you’ve been doing heroin and crack for days, but I saw plenty of poor people taking it habitually and turning into different people. It’s a really nasty drug and I implore anyone thinking of doing it to think twice, then think 47 more times. Smoke some pot, do a pill if you have to, just stay away from this and fent. I’m 7 years clean now and there really is a light at the end of the tunnel. I now own a house and a business and life is good. To anyone struggling, I’m always thinking of you. Don’t ever feel like you can’t reach out. There’s a lot of us out there who care.

[MyPrideFlag]

It's heartbreaking to read all these former drug addicts. I wish you all good health.

[brandonthorpe]

One of my girlfriends best friends took some (it was sold to her as meth) and sprinted naked around the high school running track. It was a big event, made national news (was even picked up by a few international viral news sites). My girlfriend and I went to see a John Waters stand-up special, and even he had a joke about it. We got a chance to meet him afterwards and he ended up calling us the "Flakka crew" and seemed mildly impressed that we knew her, haha. I feel bad now, having joked about it at all. She never did seem right after that. She had a pretty normal life, some substance abuse problems, but nothing crazy until that day. Since then she's done all these dangerous and crazy things, been arrested over and over. Spent a lot of time in psych wards and rehabs. Recently she stole her grandmother's car and tried to abduct a little kid. We're not sure why, all we know is she tried to get a little girl to get in the car with her, and they called the police. All this makes her sound horrible, but she really was a cool person. Smart, funny, would do anything for her friends. It's a huge bummer. She's still going to court over the abduction thing. Was offered 10 years as a plea deal, and in Kentucky you have to do 85% of the sentence if it's a "violent crime" and this is being considered one. Life totally ruined

[FloridaManMatty]

Retired Florida Firefighter/paramedic here.

CAN CONFIRM. All of it. That shit was the reason law enforcement learned about Excited Delirium the hard way. Tasers either led to cardiac arrest or just made the patient angry.