The Legal High That's Making Crack Look Like Valium
The Legal High That's Making Crack Look Like Valium
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New legal designer drug Flakka is cheaper than a Big Mac, but a whole load more dangerous. Here’s six things you need to know...
1. Flakka is the street name for Alpha-PVP, a powerful synthetic stimulant.
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2. A crystalline rock, it can enter your bloodstream pretty much any way fathomable: snorted, injected, eaten, rubbed in you eyeballs, swallowed or vaporised in an e-cigarette.
3. Similar to crystal meth, the effects can last three to four hours, but in some cases it can stick around for days.
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4. People have been going seriously batty on it: a woman in South Florida jumped off a bridge; one man ripped off his clothes, screaming violently; and another was arrested after trying to have sex with a tree. It can make you feel like you possess superhuman strength.
5. This effect is known as ‘excited delirium’, marked by spikes in body temperature (105-6C), sweating, paranoia and hallucination.
6. It’s mainly used in the US, but websites are now selling it for £19 a gram in the UK.
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