Anyone who saw the newBaywatchmovie likely has a lot of questions , but some – what the hell was with that contamination scene ? – can not be answer here . pick out witness likely pick up on the fact that the product drive Priyanka Chopra ’s driven entrepreneurial ambition is a drug called flakka , whichBaywatchfolks describe as bathroom salts on meth .

As if bath table salt were n’t regretful enough ! This nightmare drug is n’t just real , it produces results alike to bath salts in its users – namely homicidal rage , inhuman strength , and a preference for chew on people ’s face . Flakka is middling goddamned awful .

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What is flakka?

Simply put , flakkais the popular name for the tongue - twist alpha - pyrrolidinovalerophenone ( or alpha - PVP ) ,   a celluloid drug that first began arrive at waves in Florida back in 2014 . ordinarily sold for $ 5 per hit , the drug’sidealeffects include euphoria and hallucinations , as well as a hike in body temperature , buteven a more or less - too - high dose can lead in anything from paranoid psychosis to cardiac stop .

Why does flakka drive people crazy?

Flakka , like tub salts , is a type ofsynthetic cathinone : a drug chemically similar to amphetamine , whose mechanism of legal action on the brainiac is n’t completely readable . In addition to the paranoia and hallucinations , the most red reactions to these drugs are often refer to as a sort of " activated delirium " – which is a fancy way of saying you ’re so agitated & violent that chewing someone ’s typeface seems like a dead normal matter to do .

So how is flakka different from bath salts?

Technically , the two are chemically distinct variations within the same synthetic cathinone family , but thanks to the overall shady nature of these drugs it ’s quite common for flakka to be included as an active ingredient in whatever ’s being sell as " bath saltiness , " so there ’s a fairish bit of overlap . Really , though , the fact that " bath salts " is already a misnomer should signal that you ’re probably not stupefy what you conceive you ’re getting .

How common is flakka?

According to the DEA , Flakka exercise skyrocketed over the last few year , from 85 lawsuit in 2012 to over 670 in 2014 – that said , flakka - have-to doe with taking into custody and death have reportedly seen a remarkable decline in South Florida , one of the areas worst - hit by the drug . Of naturally , if the aforementioned brutal murder in Martin County does turn out to be the result of a flakka overdose , those statistic will in all probability have to change .

Should I take flakka?

Uh , no . Definitely not .

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