Flakka is a synthetic amphetamine-like substance similar to the family of drugs known as cathinones, commonly referred to as bath salts. Just as bath salts are addictive, so is Flakka highly addictive both physically and psychologically, and can be smoked, inhaled, swallowed, or injected. Since it can also be vaporized, it’s use in an e-cigarette makes it hard to detect even when used in a public setting.
The drug is synthesized from a compound derived from khat, a plant grown in the Middle East and parts of North Africa that has been used traditionally to produce, when chewed in leaf form, a moderate high. As with cocaine, which when used traditionally by chewing coca leaves, the synthetic or distilled product has a vastly more powerful and deleterious effect. In the case of Flakka, the drug inhibits the re-uptake of dopamine and norepinephrine, two crucial neurotransmitters affecting mood and normal brain function. The result is a prolonged effect of what is known as “excited delirium.”
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