Flakka: The Designer Drug Destroying Communities
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When a doctor in Florida calls this "the worst drug I've ever seen", that's *really* saying something.
If you think this is bad , I really don't suggest looking up "krokodil drug". That one is on a different level
@@lizkizub6206 Yes and no. Krokodil is really a highly impure homemade version of desomorphine which is a much less potent opioid than fentanyl. The reason for the horrible flesh-eating side effects from krokodil in Russia are because of the injection of all toxic solvents and unremoved fillers it contains when they are cheaply and poorly manufactured by unknowledgeable chemists.
@@lizkizub6206 I've actually heard of krokodil. First on a series called Drugs, Inc and then from Simon. It's definitely gruesome in its effects but I'm not 100% convinced its worse than this "flakka" shyte.
My candidate for worst drug would be scopolamine
No
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.
It’s understandable now when I learnt humans never test their genetic strength limit because it can damage our bodies. This drug I guess suppresses that urge for self preservation and a 90 pound woman can wreck havoc.
Omg,it’s absolute demons who sell this poison,it should be a death penalty for selling this shit.
Omg
Wouldn't it have been easier to shoot a tranquilizer dart?
Sounds like a mild case of EXORCISM
Calling these drugs "designer drugs" makes them sound elite rather than terrifying
That's the point.
It's the forbidden fruit angle.
They're really not all that horrifying. Harm reduction is necessary, as with all drugs, but this video makes A-PVP sounds far more intense than it is. The people mentioned here are clearly habitual users in the midst of binges
Theres also aphip. Also its a research chemical
They should be called research chemicals (although technically a-pvp isn’t anymore, since it is scheduled in the us).
No no, it just means you have to be a designer to take them. Like an architect or a cartoonist.... Inventor.... Y'know, people who design stuff.
That's why I never buy drugs off the street. I live in a house.
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
Sorry to hear you had to grow up like that. Every kid deserves better.
Ooof
ill do drugs if i want, mom!
Yes, they run naked after thia
well it is very hot in florida!
This is way more effective than any anti drug talk I've had in school
No kidding! Forget the frying pan and the egg "this is your brain on drugs" speech. Show this!
Where can we get some?
Seriously, and he didn't once tell us not to do it 😅
I always thought using science, and showing what truly happens on these drugs. Plus having accounts from ex abusers, I feel are the best ways to keep people from doing them. Instead of just saying, "don't do drugs cause they're bad for you"
i mean this is how they use to talk about weed.....
You can identify a crazy drug when it's side effects include things like simultaneous paranoia and invincibility
Thats not a drug man, that stuff is straight up poison. I don't wanna imagine what would happen if that got into the water supply we would have a legit zombie epidemic.
Shout out Bizarro
Lol
I smoked weed laced with PCP when I was like 12-13.. Didn't feel either! Lol I think these cases are extreme over doses.. Most heroin addicts die from stupidity, including many of my close friends.. A few die from non accidental ODs.. Aka they have had enough, so they take too much intentionally. I used it for over a decade!!! Daily.. Never had 1 OD! But I witnessed many others..
@@savannahpaige3670 They usually are but cathinones are notorious for having wildly differing effects person to person. They also tend to catapult mental illnesses out of our galaxy at low dosages
I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to heroin. Spent my whole life fighting heroin addiction. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Ive done shrooms last month in my house. It taught me how severely traumatized I was from alcohol. I healed from many mental traumas from my past and was able to forgive, let go. Shrooms to me is a remedy not a vice. I even felt more refreshed the
morning after. So no hangovers. No
depression mood for days. No anxiety.I now
have a more calm mind
How do i reach out to him? Is he on Instagram
Yes he's Dr.alishrooms. Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have
really helped him. mah dudes have safe
trips all.
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.
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.
Good report I would say the same thing. I’ve done other cathinones and flakka has always been my least favorite
Congratulations dawg
You would think that a drug like that makes you wait all drugs in general...not just hard stuff
And here I am thinking, how you manage to write this.
Nice job for staying clean.
Good day fellow researcher
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.
Wow that sounds so scary to witness
Glad she didn't hurt you.
I remember someone told me he got cannabis from someone but instead he was tricked into buying spice and didn't know and his girlfriend smoked it. Her boyfriend took her straight to the hospital because she was screaming and seeing demons and pulling people's hair out for hours.
Why’d you leave the force? Anything to do with that experience?
@@seriousstuff8887 and the interrogative questions being let's go get this man did you play good cop bad cop come on tell us so we can arm our pitchforks and sharpen our wits to burn your soul with evil verbal accusations about being civil let's let him have 8t agha ga hhazgzh jk
There was actually a worse one after this, a flakka replacement called hexen, I sadly took it like three times and it literally turned you into emotionless doll, unable to feel anything besides despair and paranoia, even if the day before you were happiest guy ever, nothing just made sense and you couldn't tell if it will ever pass or if this is how you will feel for the rest of your life, even eating didn't feel like anything, you could only feel like killing yourself. I'm glad it's less available now
Can I ask, why take it if it makes you feel so horrible? I took ecstasy twice when I was young and it made me feel happy and I danced a lot. This drug sounds like it would just be horrible and awful.
Yea why tf did you do it three times
@@TattyDarling honestly I was young and it was new, nobody knew how bad it is since it only happened during the comedown
@@Lavender_Jibanyan yeah, that part of my life is closed, I'm glad for the expirience since now I know how bad life can get and how you can still make a change for the better, no matter how miserable you are
@@prestonhayes8285 I didn't care what happened to me but shit like that made me want to actually live my life, kind of a shock therapy, ended up getting me out of depression
It's sickening to think that these kind of drugs will still be made and to think that they can be bought online as well is terrifying. 🥺
Originally you could buy a-pvp from headshops before RCs were known widely
And doctors readily prescribe similar drugs allowed by the fda. Really no difference when you think about it.
@@th-cc6ei But there is a great difference, when you're taking drugs on the street or similar places, you don't know what else is mixed in with it and if you're suitable, where at least from the hospital they're cleaned up, pur in small doses and only given to people in the right circumstances, and they see if that drug is suitable for you. Yeah there are some that don't work etc but at least you have a better chance of living than taking drugs from other people.
@@Salena905it’s not that sad, quitting whining and acting oblivious, kids as young as 6 have access to drugs this aint nothing new
@@GTZ7 It IS that sad because it isn't something new and also because kids can get a hold of drugs so easily is terrifying.
Flakka user: feels invincible
Also flakka user: terrified of imaginary pursuers.
@@priapulida this is just the non-funny version of the original comment
@@priapulida that doesn't even make sense, its not even dialogue you loon. and im not debating why its funny lmao, clearly you dont understand humor anyway. i was just pointing out how you basically just rewrote the original comment in a boring manner.
@@priapulida "clearly" you have Asperger's. Its not dialogue, your sentences addressed points I didn't raise and are structured strangely. All you did was make a mundane version of a meme comment, no one is 'gaslighting', cut the buzzwords... you loon.
@@priapulida not everything is gaslighting ffs. And if the humorous part of the original comment is the format then yes taking it out of that format and saying the same exact thing is just restating the original comment but not "funny".
@@priapulida or yk you're just even less funny than an overused format that wasn't very funny before the overuse anyway.
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!!
Good Lord!!!
@@maryellenputnam-reinhardt3305 pretty gross huh?
@@darkbrawwl it was absolutely gross!! Yes! Actual muscle-- I couldn't believe what I was looking at!! The skin on her forearm was GONE!
!WRIST TO ELBOW!! LOOKED LIKE BEEF JERKY!
@@darkbrawwl it was painful when she sobered up! When she used, she didn't feel anything.
Thanks for the dis-info. No, the skin wasn't gone. Infection would set in and the tissue become necrotic. If this actually happened it would have scarred skin you imagined was missing.
My father is a recovered heroine addict, alcoholic, you name it. He's been sober for 35 years and now works as a city counsel leader, working with local DEA to offer HOLISTIC drug rehab treatment that follows the patient through every stage of their recovery.
These designer drugs almost killed my brother, and, along with opiods, are destroying many areas of our country. It crosses socioeconomic boundaries and is not a respecter of background, race, or any other societal line.
Designers are especially terrifying, bc as soon as one chemical compound is banned, they alter ONE ingredient (any one that won't change the compound too greatly, but retains the effects of the high.) Boom. Another formula to outlaw. More red tape. Repeat.
Addiction is cunning and powerful. But there's a way out. I've been sober for 13 years. By the grace of God. Our nation - our fellow Americans - need more comprehensive substance abuse programs that you dont have to be a millionaire to afford. There are programs out there. There is hope. No matter how bad it seems...You're worthy of a sober life!
Yup and their only getting more dangerous because the government is banning it. If they didn’t ban it and had basic alternatives to all these drugs legalized we wouldn’t have to worry about this.
On the other hand plenty of people use research chemicals and if used safely they won’t make you fuck a tree.
Hello dear how are you feeling today
This is why we have the analog act. Even if some clandestine pharmacy changes one bond, etc., the base substance is unaltered and therefore still illegal. Hence why acetylfentanyl isn't explicitly illegal, but as an analog of fentanyl, it is therefore a scheduled substance.
Congrats on 13 years! I'm about a month away from 2 years clean and beyond grateful for life today.
Heroin
virtue signalling
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.
Plenty of natural poison too. The term “synthetic drug” is *sensationalized* to make you think they’re so crazy, and a-pvp might be but most are not. And its mostly like mushroom or mescaline alternatives
@@FractalRaverMethadone is a synthetic opioid and it is an excellent drug to treat opioid withdrawal for example.
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.
Thank you for sharing
Jesus fucking Christ, sounds like PCP level psychosis
This right here. Needs to be quoted in large letters, on the wall of every drug rehab unit. Whatever people are thinking of, don't do flakka.
That’s awful that he attacked u like that. Utterly terrifying.
ACORNS UP HIS BUTT?! oh my god wtf
When your recreational drug of choice leads to sex with a tree, start examining your life choices... 😐
Captain I think putting yourself in the situation to begin with shows a stark lack of self evaluation skills
I've seen guys on "e" hump a oak tree before.
Yes, you need to up the dose and become a true nature lover. In seriousness though, yeah, not one I'd like to start.
enough alcohol could cause that so 2.3 billion people should re-examine lol
@@bruhstandler Nah, all the more alcohol can do is lead to you waking up hung-over in a puddle of your own piss and vomit... usually next to a dumpster in the alley, and often not far from the bar where you were drinking.
Seriously, without something else chemically at work, you're not going to drink enough liquor to look at a tree and get too excited for your own good. Much liquor at all, and you'll be lucky to get it up, let alone keep it... ;o)
Its horrifying how scarily strong a human can be if it thinks its all-powerful
The mind is very powerful
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporessss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is. dr.sporessss
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.
Dam bro, I’m glad you got your life back together I know it’s hard, I been there I got about 5 years clean and sometimes I feel like I’m relapse but I keep staying clean
Good luck. You can do it.
Understand .. lost everything once too…
But am clean , and no drug worry’s ever again…
I like being straight now…
Fair play to you stopping …
Life is good..
It's drugs, what did you think was going to happen
Pray accept my best wishes in your ongoing struggle.
You'll be a lot better, I'm sure, when you read these lines one year on.
Love from India 🇮🇳
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.
Holy shit! I am SO GLAD you had a solid group of friends to hold you down in that extreme way and hope you are okay today from the bad experience as a teen. Dude yeah your friend could have hulked out his whole future and every one of you with him. reading comments how 90lb women are supernatural strong asf on this stuff is horrifying enough
You're lucky to have such helpful friends.
Fr good homies go grab those lads a drink yeah
Do you remember anything while you were on it?
😯
I'm SO glad this wasn't out back in the day when I was out there... Praise God for 20 years this month 🙏💞
I think the scariest thing about this drug is that it seems to be commonly used to cut weed. Imagine just trying to relax after work and you end up cutting out your own eyeballs and wandering into traffic
I think you're thinking of PCP, and PCP is very rarely cut with stuff these days due to it being rare these days, weed is almost exclusively cut with different synthetic cannaboids if they are cut at all which is usually not the case these days cause weed be common af
“He wasn’t actually thor
Just a florida man high on flakka”
That’s actually pretty close to a demigod tho
good sir, please accept this "best comment of the day award" lol
Florida man can be found high on iceberg lettuce! So not saying much
Even as a native-born Floridian I don't understand why so many Florida wo/man stories involve food, but at least most of the time they're not trying to be cannibals. And most of the ones eating other people are on bath salts or flakka.
But not all. Because Florida.
It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.
@@TrineDaely huh i thought it was all that cocaine coming out of miami inthe 80's that fried everyones brains down there, theres stupid in the south (texas) but usually its "watch this billy!" not a would be robber attempting to rob a wendys with a LIVE ALLIGATOR.
"I am Flakka...the Demigod of the people and Trees!"
Bad S**t.
It's heartbreaking to read all these former drug addicts. I wish you all good health.
Ameen may they all stay safe and guided
Gee thanx
@@buggzbunny3040 🐇
It's a shame we can't get it in the uk, I'd love to try it 👍
Christal meth is all it really is but that is a blanket term for so many flavours
I just stumbled upon this site and I am impressed. Thank you for putting it out there in such a way that an old bat like me can understand.
Austin suffered from clinical lycanthropy. The sheer stress of his school life and pressure from him family to get the top grades everything caused his mind to break and resulted in the affore mentioned mental illness. It is a case of extreme delusion where the person genuinely believes that they are infact a werewolf. His is a very sad story indeed.
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.
So they're agitated and hallucinating so you drop them in a gigantic K Hole? That's awesome.
I was feeling informed by this video until you started in with the poor mistreated, over-tazed, black males bull sh@t. This cause me to think that the entire video was bull sh@t. Take your propaganda and stick it up your clacker.
Really? Yall don't use simple Thorazine anymore!?? Why we using ketamine to sedate ppl? in my experience it's not that sedating recreationally. and it can be deadly.
True 👍
@@finnmcginn9931 Lmao
My best friend was in a depressed party stage a couple of years back where he started using MDMA. About a year into this era of his life his dealer started selling him Flakka and lying to him telling him it was MDMA.
It was painfully obvious, even to him, that whatever this was it wasn't Molly. He started to become extremely paranoid, didn't sleep, hallucinating, etc.
He kept buying this crap for months and it got to a point where he was really starting to scare me. He would accuse me of being in his house when I was 10 miles away at my own house. He would insist I was in his house and sneaking around whispering stuff. Any car that passed his house he thought was someone spying on him. When home at his place all he would do is watch his security cameras from his room all night.
Eventually he got so bad he started coming over to my house when the paranoia and fear got too much at home and he would run from window to window peeping out from the shades. It came to a head when he came to my house and accused me of calling the cops on him because a cop car happened to pass by while he was peeping out the window. He got irate and became a raging lunatic bearing down on me, yelling at the top of his lungs that I called the cops on him.
I managed to calm him down and convince him I had done no such thing and calmly told him he needs to stop buying this crap from that asshole. Told him what he already knew from first try, that this wasn't Molly and whatever it was was doing to him was scaring me beyond the point where I can justify remaining his friend.
Luckily he heard me and stopped doing it and I didn't have to end our friendship.
how is he doing now ?
Thank God your friend listened to HIS FRIEND!😐
im so sorry, for both of you
You are a good friend
no decent dealer would ever do that. not that dealers are great people but luckily in my limited experience of teen years i never had a risky experience
Thank God I never got into these things. Thank you for this information. Great show. Well done all involved in making this video.
Just an FYI: "La flaca" is slang for the Grim reaper. It's how people refer to la Catrina who is the female version of the embodiment of death in Mexican folklore.
Thank you for the information
Now we know how they came up with the name Hurricane Katrina.
@@reesedaniel5835 in Germany hurricanes (but also high and low weather) are named alphabetically and you can submit your name every year for a hope of one being named after you :) one year its male names for highs, next year female names etc. For some reason we often remember the female hurricanes as more devastating..
@@kenzashenna Yes they are named the same way here in the USA. I was just making an observation I personally found interesting.
if people knew that before, maybe they d stop taking it
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.
People like you are a poison on society
Congratulations on getting clean! Love to hear that you’re now a business owner! Have a great day 😊
What did u feel from it?
smoking flocka, you a jack ass, all i smoke is gass
👍🏿 mike Lindell’s story.
Wild...I was in a band with Kenny. He was from my town. Never thought I'd see him pop up on a TH-cam video. I vividly remember my band mate telling me the same story at the beginning of the video.
"For some inexplicable reason they took him back to the restaurant." 😂😂😂
The possibility of gouging your own eyes out is the most terrifying side effect I've aver heard of.
Or your mums. & then carefully placing them onto a piece of cardboard as to preserve them. Pretty whack
That or cutting off your own penis. Either one is horrifying though.
😂I don’t mean to laugh this is sad but your comment had me dying god forgive me
@@priapulida it sure as sh*t ain't on the promotional material tho.
weed has admittedly made me eat some inadvisable things in my time but I've never looked at a human being and gone 'that's a tasty looking face'
Hehe. My former roommate who was normally a good cook made something that inadvertently turned out crappy. High af it was dank, but sober it was nasty 🤣
Something doesn't add up in that case. Agree.
Marijuana is clearly an extremely dangerous drug, I believe they call this "reefer madness"
Sounds like an extreme version of the munchies
Yeah that guy was clearly already insane THC doesn't do that. I feel we aren't getting anywhere near the full story.
😂 Ik this is an extremely serious topic but that intro was quite hilarious.
Aggression and immense strength? This sounds like Venom from the DC universe.
A drug whose chemical name is simplified to Alpha PVP is both extremely on point and funny
I cracked up when he said Alpha PVP
but its horrible
It's like poetry; it rhymes.
I knew that I couldn't have been the only one who got a laugh out of that part lol
So incredibly on the nose that I had to laugh and immediately felt bad.
The name is what got me interested in the drug. Upon reading all the trip reports from users, as well as all the freak out videos, the name now genuinely gives me this overwhelming sense of dread.
Great video and your darkly humorous way of narrating greatly amuses me 👍🏼
Hearing "he was defeated" to refer to a man calling himself thor being arrested is extremely funny to me.
The people that make this drug, sell it, spread it... They are the dealers that deserve life sentences. Truly. It's truly greed over everything, stuff like this just makes the world burn.
I’d say sentence them to death for all the lives they’ve ruined
Most drug sellers are also victims of addiction too. Often only getting into production or distribution to fund their own habits or bills. Incarcerating people does nothing to fix drugs. We cant even keep them out of the prisons. People should be able to buy and put whatever they want in their body if theyre not harming anyone else. The drug war failed and only waste taxpayer money, back up our courts, over crowds our prisons, turns non violent drug users into hardened criminals, helps build gangs, and profits private prisons and cartels.
Drugs are a health issue, most of the time mental illness, not a criminal one. Putting them in cuffs doesnt help them, it often makes them worse.
Allot of drugs come from third world countries. They don't care what happens to their customers because it isn't their problem. They're lower than animals the people making these drugs. And deserve no humane treatment. Since the sources of these drugs are often foreign, there is almost no way to punish them. Many dealers here don't even know what they're dealing. They just get it from someone else and sell it.
No one is forcing anyone to buy it though
no, dosage is everything, with any substance. What makes the world burn is over-policing, creating black markets, and the refusal of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
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
Yeah right idiot 🤣
That's such a horrible fate.
It's also possible the kidnapping might have been to sell the girl into sex trafficking to fund more drugs, unfortunately.
One hell of a story Bub…😅
I think it's obvious why she tried to kidnap a kid having read all of this
W*man Moment.
Accidentally clicked on this video. Listen to the first ten seconds and decided to stay. Hahaha. It was a wild 10 seconds. Haha
The fact Simon acctually has a video about Auistin on another one of his channels says a lot about the scale of the Simon Whistler cinematic universe
my ex boyfriend introduced me to this drug. We were using together, but I had to stop because it was unbearable and I had my goals in mind. At a point I left him, also because of that, and he went down the rabbit hole, using like 5 days non-stop, not going to work, living among rubbish and dirt. He was absolutely paranoid, I had to come and get him out of his state more than once, cleaning his apartment and making him sleep, and he was convinced people were recording him, spying on him. At a point he started accusing me of buying drugs and having them shipped to his apartment, or of stealing him goods and money (as if he had any, but whatever). I had to cut ties with him. After two years, I still happen to have shivers/cravings, despite absolutely hating the substance, now as back then, as it is absolutely disgusting and hard on lungs and stomach (other than the rest of the body of course). Though I consider myself clean and I can consider it behind me, it took me a lot, and I still feel the aftermath. My ex has destroyed his life and is now weekly checked in in mental hospitals, at least that's what I heard of him six months ago.
oh yes, those shivers, brrr
i used to do methedrone. it's also a cathinone, not nearly as bad as alpha, but as your tolerance rises you start to get similar side effects, wierd obsessions
i had to break up with my bf to stop spiraling deeper into addiction too. you are a strong person, be proud of yourself. and don't let the dark thoughts about ones who didn't make it get to you. they all still have a chance, but it must be their own choice.
I applaud your empathy and continued strength.
@@polina-rs4lr thank you, you hit the bullseye, I still feel like I could/should have done more for him, but then I concur, again as I did back then, that I wasn’t here to be a martyr, and that as you perfectly say, it’s up to them, they need to understand.
Thank you for your words and your story, I applaude you and your strength.
@@polina-rs4lr, why would someone voluntarily put themselves in such vulnerable situations? Where has morality gone? How a sense of responsibility?
@Lyle Coglianese You never think you'll be the person that becomes a casualty for the drug. You think you're different, because you're not taking it every day, then it's because you're swallowing it not smoking it. Then you tell yourself that you're only smoking it, not shooting it.
Then you're shooting it.
All the while, you've alienated yourself from your friends and family, you're social circle only revolves in the drug's orbit. I was an addict for decades, but not to Flakka. H and Benzos were my problem.
As all that is going on, your body and brain get used to the feeling, and begin to need it as a habit forms or, with drugs like Flakka, you're completely mentally drained, as all the serotonin and dopamine depletion run your body into the ground, and the upper becomes the easiest way to function again.
We'll quit tomorrow. Everything is good today because we're high. But tomorrow never comes.
True story a friend of mine decided to call the cops on himself for smoking meth. His girlfriend and I were accused of being feds coming to take his house from him. It was one of the saddest things I've seen. It was one of those things I'll never forget. Watching a close friend literally lose their mind and have to literally go to an institution for some time makes you realize... in the words of Mr Macky "drugs are bad and if you did drugs it would be bad....umkay"! He's fine and doing well now thankfully!
Don't smoke or snort any rock EVER. If it is synthesized in a lab you don't touch that shit.
I was feeling informed by this video until you started in with the poor mistreated, over-tazed, black males bull sh@t. This cause me to think that the entire video was bull sh@t. Take your propaganda and stick it up your clacker.Now many will think la flaca is totally safe since you lied about black males being overly tazed. EVERYONE knows it's white that get mistreated by the law. Remember Tony Timpa!!!! Murdered by police and he wasn't a drug head like George. However, no one cares because white lives don't matter.
@@amypatterson9851 White lives do matter, except people say black lives matter because lots of you fuckers seem to think differently
@@SadieSorceress No, BLM means white lives don't matter. I was an insider. Stop falling for the commie lies that are trying to enslave us A L L!!!
@@amypatterson9851 Okay, grandma, take your pills. Let's get back to bed, okay?
that is genuinely sad and disgusting. Why would people would create something like this.
because people buy it and want it
“Smokin flocka you a jackass, all I smoke is gas”
I lived in Ft Lauderdale when flakka was at its peak. It was definitely a scary sight to see. I'm glad my buddy from there drove me around downtown pointing at people on flakka so I could see for myself why I wanted no parts.
🤭 oh yeah! east Broward Blvd and the bus terminal. I lived in Inverray but off 55th and 56th Ave "deepside" was another flakka zombie zone. My bestfriend stayed in some condos off 56th avenue apartments said her neighbors son had got strung out on flakka. His mom kicked him out and he came back that evening staring at her door all night. She had her ring cam recording and he was literally there all...night...long just staring at her door. It was crazy! This was 2015. She moved from the area after a flak zombie shot a security officer then ran across the street and shot himself in the head. It was all caught on FB.
Your buddy is a real one.
@@JustAnotherAccount8 real shit
Your buddy is Hank Schrader
@@benl1799 how
Flaka in jails?! Oh my. That equals cruel and unusual punishment for the other (sober) inmates. What a nightmare to be locked in with someone on that stuff.
You’re in because you shoplifted and the guy across the hall rips his pants off, declares himself Thor and starts running away from an imaginary stalker…
If Xylazine turns people into the Darkseekers(zombies from I Am Legend) at rest, Flakka turns them into Darkseekers on the hunt after the sun goes down. Drugs are bad, mmmkay. But have fun and don't hurt anyone else if you proceed.
What I appreciate is that, yes, Simon doesn't deny why people do these drugs, but doesn't glorify it. The focus seems to be on information and education; not on some kind of scare tactic. Good on ya, mate.
The young man who attacked those people and ate the man's face was suffering from a severe mental breakdown. He had been demonstrating that his mind was breaking for a while before. Unfortunately, they didn't see this coming. In watching this as a true crime show, I was heartbroken at how many people demonstrated they still don't believe in mental illness.
This was the same case for the 'bath salts' incident that occurred years ago where the cops accused bath salts for being the reason why a man ate another man's face.
It turns out he didn't have any bath salts in his system and the cops had just lied.
I believe you!!!
Mental illness combined with pot is not a good outcome. It's not as harmless as they want you to believe.
@@davidaugustine3686 it was an initial guess based on previous encounters with individuals under the influence of bath salts. toxicology later proved otherwise, but its not like it was a deliberate deception.
It's not mental illness it's DEMON POSSESSION. BIG DIFFERENCE
One argument I've had for the legalization of Marijuana is if you can buy it from a store, it will not be laced with something you may not want; which several of your examples suggested. In 1989, when I was 17, I bought pot, and didn't know it was laced with PCP. As someone with Panic Disorder, and general anxiety, it was not a good combination, especially given the medications I was on at the time. It literally took me a few years to mentally get past that night.
Sounds like smoking pot probably wouldnt be helpful for a "panic disorder" .... the only time ive had an anxiety attack was after i ate pot cookies 🍪
@@fattyjaybird7505 Understood. At the time, I was searching for something to help augment my meds. Now, I understand I wanted the calming affect of THC, but not the paranoia part. A delicate balancing act, where I miserably failed.
@@fattyjaybird7505 Cannabis can actually be very useful as medication for anxiety! It certainly does wonders for mine.
It helps if you are partaking in an area where it is legal (to eliminate fear of the law as a paranoia trigger,) don't take a higher dose than you need, and choose the right strain for your needs.
I have experienced paranoia in the past in some situations, but having it legalized in my state and being able to control the strain I'm consuming as well as my dosage resulted in me having much, much more calming experiences.
@@danielreuben1058 Have you heard of Delta 8 thc might wanna give it a try?
@@Nice-ck7rq no, I have not heard of Delta 8 thc. Is this something I can read about by searching Google?
Something I learned horribly is that if you buy any drug on the street, you have no guarantee that you will be able to stop using the drug. You also can't know for sure which drug it is.
“I am Thor”. My word. Couldn’t have been a copper. I would have lost my shit laughing.
This drug scares the crap out of me. I've seen several people on it. I sat at a gas station and watched a girl who had her seat belt on attempt to eat the shoulder of the seat. I have no idea how she even biologically got her neck to turn that far, but she was ripping into the seat with her teeth.
You need to hang out with different folks. I do quite a lot of substances and the people I know do drugs too, and I’ve never seen anybody eat car seats… then again we do good drugs. So 🤷♂️
@@shasmi93 I don't do drugs all the time but when I do... they are good!
Mmmmm........old leather....
😢
Moment of silence for her teeth
I actually feel really bad for woman who gouged out her moms eyes. She didn’t even purposely take it and I’m sure felt indescribable grief, pain, and guilt once she was back in her right state of mind. I want to say I hope the mom didn’t suffer but clearly her death was horrifically painful and scary.
What? How did this happen?
@@bradsanders407 I'm afraid it was halloween candy, laced with the devil drugs, she was a grade A student with a scholarship for yale before that candy came along🤦
How is it possible for someone to not suffer with their eyes gouge out?
@@yivunqp963
Hence the “Hope”. It’s almost like people don’t read before trying to be a smartass😂
@@user-sx4qu4dz9z No. It is like someone trying so hard to spin a optimistic tale and is willing to speak all kinds of rubbish to sound nice
"He was taken into custody where it was discovered he was not the god of thunder"
Lol
This is amazing coverage of stuff I don’t know about! I ❤this channel. Well researched, well narrated, fabulous. Thanks.
I’m not a drug abuser (I am on some meds for chronic spinal pain) it’s the folk who are around the drug abuser, parents, children, friends, even pets who suffer the most. My heart is sad for them all.
All illegal drug factories need bombing. We need to find an anti high treatment to stop users. There is one for alcohol.
Alright, that's all the confirmation I need never to do any drugs.
Entirely diabolic!!!🤔
Seeking truth yet judging every substance in the world based on a designer drug? 😆
I think thats a lie. Or did you never drunk alcohol in your Life?
Good plan cuz they lace that Shit in lots of other things
Stay away from coffee, alcohol, sugar, nicotine and even the TV then lol
Excited delirium is such a frightening condition since it involves complete loss of one's executive control while being fully awake accompanied by unspeakable emotional suffering. It's the state of losing your own mind and being aware of it but being unable to calm down since feelings of anxiety, paranoia and agitation keep pushing you to uncontrollable and often violent actions. A nightmare that is taking place in reality and ruining your own and others' lives while reducing you to an observer of your own self-destruction.
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I've never had bad mental problems and I don't do drugs but 2 weeks ago I had that happen. I'm still not mentally fine. For 3 days straight I watched so many videos that weren't actually there. Now I can't remember anything, my brain isn't processing anything, it's a terrible feeling and I have no idea what caused it. I would hate to be unaware of reality constantly
@@evehuddy8627 Consider seeing a doctor if it goes on or happens again, such as a neurologist, psychologist or psychiater. Rheumatologists or allergologists can also be helpful. It can be down to seemingly unrelated and obscure problems like infection, autoimmunity and inflammation, electrolyte deficiencies, metabolic issues, intolerant or allergic reactions to food or other common substances etc. It can also be a reaction to COVID or the flu. You don't want it to become chronic.
@@1themaster1 that's definitely true, I have pots dystoautomania but its not related. Wish doctors weren't expensive as fuck. America needs free health care like most of the rest of the world
@@1themaster1 I normally have problems breathing and it may or may not be a tad bit of oxygen deprivation but I'm hoping the er will figure it out with out immediately sending me to a specialist lol
Sounds amazing I can't wait to have a go.
Thanks docs!
Wow ! Everything you described about the drug was scary enough, imagine being locked in a prison cell and your cell mate is on this stuff😳
Yeah that's pure nightmare fuel...
Worse than the guy going through smartphone withdrawals? At least the flakka dude isn’t blabbering on about critical race theory and how Trump will save us all from it.
There cases in the UK of people using it in prison.
You will be dinner. RIP 😂
That's a great punhsiment for a demonic person
Thank you Simon. You are doing a great thing. I pray your videos save lives,especially of those innocent of taking these insane, evil substances, but have a friend/relative/significant other that doesn't have their common sense and perspicacity!
Anyone remember the footage of that one guy running like a zombie through a parking structure, and while a terrified female driver tried to avoid him, he smashed right through an SUV’s rear window, head first?
That shiz is some seriously scary stuff.
What’s amazing is that these people typically seem to sustain relatively minor injury, considering what they do to themselves.
This has to be the most terrifying drug ever. Forget angel dust, crystal, acid, krocodile…I can’t imagine having one of these hyper-speed, mentally twisted human weapons, coming at me. You aren’t safe even in a car.
And worst of all? These are just regular people. They aren’t like this. Their body is high jacked, like a possession. Of course, they shouldn’t have done the drug; I t’s reputation precedes it. But no one deserves what this stuff does to a person.
Many drugs ought to have their status as illegal revisited, but not this stuff.
This stuff has to somehow just be eliminated altogether.
I agree, this is a scary drug.
People KNOW damn well they're taking serious risks choosing to take drugs. It's not like they make u better or anything. I don't give people a free pass. Yes. Sometimes shit happens unexpectedly. But they're DRUGS not vitamins. Come on...might as well just say people shouldn't be held accountable for putting drugs in their systems by their own free will. They CHOSE to do that shit. U don't get to shake hands with Satan and then say nope never mind. Once u put drugs in your system it's open game for anything to happen to them and others.
Drugs aren't terrifying, it's the people doing them lol
Yeah, this isn't a recreational drug, it's russian roulette with a bio-weapon
@HeebeeJeebee yeah. That’s why synthetic drugs are so hard to weed out. (Sorry) There was a degree of success with limiting purchase amounts of sinus medication, as far as trying to curtail speed. It seems that when there are multiple potential precursors, that’s when it becomes a game of wack-a-mole. This is a whole different animal than most drugs. That would mean a whole new approach .
I laughed way too hard at the intro story. But thank God I know that I will go to hell for laughing at things I shouldn't, so I don't need to worry anymore. :,)
What day is you smokin'? Flakka!
South Florida used to be the rehab capitol of the country. Maybe still is. After rehab, most people move into a halfway-houses or sober living house for 30-90 days, before going back home (if they had one). Back in 2015 there was a Flakka dealer on every single street a halfway-house was on. $5 is all you needed. They targeted people straight out of rehab. True predatory behavior. It sucked to watch
Believe me, there are still rehabs, halfways, and other largely bullshit “recovery” facilities absolutely everywhere here lol. And 99% of them are indeed surrounded by drug dealers. You’re not wrong
People like that deserve absolutely no respect, selling drugs is one thing but targeting people u know are recovering, lacing people ,etc is just evil
Still happens down here. Still a huge rehab community down here. It's rough, dealers just sit around outside rehabs and halfway houses and the like and sell to people who get out. It's a vicious cycle. I get asked by someone who's still carrying something they got in rehab if I know where they can get drugs a truly alarming number of times.(I have very long hair as a male and many people have wrongly assumed that I would either sell to them or know where to buy their drug(s) of choice.) It's a truly predatory system the dealers run down here.
That's pure evil...
Now that's fuc up indevisual
Here in Vancouver we've got plenty of zombies. We've become known as the zombie city quite recently when foreign tourists were so outraged that their negative experiences spread everywhere online and the truth of Vancouver finally become more well known.
Wow, really? Here in Alberta we've gotten bad in the central region for Fentynal. Red Deer business district is taking an international hit from investors avoiding.
Canada or washington?
I used to live in Vancouver. Y’all have nothing on SF in terms of Zombies. Stay safe.
@@Sp0on777 says the washingtonian…
I live in Washington, we have lots of zombies here too.
The thumbnail says zombie, but this is the story of an electricity resistant God of Thunder.
Wow.. the list of substances I never want to try used to be two items long.. 2023 is making that list a loooot longer.
Perfect timing for this video, Flakka is back here in Australia, a neighbour who had been fighting ice addiction had some and proceeded to remove all the skin on his left arm below the Elbow with a vegetable peeler and then snapped off 3 fingers with his other hand. At the time he was singing "what do you do with a Flakka'd sailor? Skin 'em and snap their bones"
I wish this isn't true. I really wish this isn't true. I can't ever know. :-/
@@Seb_Matte I wish it wasn't true as well
Very disturbing, sounds possessed.
Prepare for the flakka lockdowns.
How sad!
Drug addiction is such a horrible disease. My heart goes out to those affected.
If you’re currently using any sort of substance - please seek help! You’ve got this and are worthy of better heath!
Cancer is a disease drugs are a decision
It doesn't help there's so many "drugs are life" losers telling us drugs are safe. No. They'll kill you. If you need drugs to have sex you fucked up somewhere.
It’s not something you can conquer without insane strength of will and discipline. Even then it’s an internal struggle you will have for the rest of your life.
Doing it alone is nearly impossible. If you are a social butterfly caught up in the degeneracy of your friends it’s very difficult to break away from them for your own good.
I’ve seen some people be dragged down to a ruined life because they felt a sense of loyalty to the other people ruining their life.
You cant get addicted to flaka if you never try it
Been a long time since I tried learning Japanese. Does your name say shimukushi, or shiakushi? I think I remember all except the second character correctly, but it's been six years so maybe I'm wrong altogether
My family was living in northern PA when bathsalts and flakka hit. Either me or my brother got sick, so my father had to run out to CVS to get medicine. It was a freezing pa winter night. A woman in nothing but her undergarments jumped in front of his car at the CVS. creepy.
I remember when bath salt came out in stores, and everyone was like, “yo try this cheap cocaine. Wild time.
As a former addict to mostly opiates, I never saw anything like all these designer drugs that are causing people’s flesh to rot or causing insanity to the point to where people are killing others on these drugs. I pray for anyone out there using these drugs to seek help. 🙏
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Opiate addiction was a slippery slope wasn't it... Glad you're former like myself well done
I was an opiate addict 14 years ago. Things have changed. Everything is synthetic now.
Iam studying pharmaceutical chemistry and have to say that you are well informed and actually the information here about synthetic cathinones is correct, unlike in the news.
Wait. The news is misinforming people? I'm shocked. Well not really.
What are your honest thoughts on methadone?
Cause Simon does his research and might be behind compared to the news but he is able to get the facts correct
Why would anyone bother with this when there is so much similar drugs out there, dopamine drugs like amphetamines and methamphetamine etc? Or really any illegal drugs when you can get legal things like alcohol, caffeine, prescription stuff....
@@squaaaaak3178 I haven't done any illegal stuff, but as I have very severe drug-resistant depression I'm desperate for anything that would help with my mood and energy.
Caffeine doesn't work, psych meds don't work and give me migraines, alcohol and prescription uppers only make me sleepy (even amphetamine derivatives like adhd meds), and medical marijuana only gives me a headache.
So, even if my issue is purely medical, I can empathise with just feeling desperate when nothing legal helps
And also addiction is scary and often you get dangerous stuff mixed with things like marijuana, so you can get addicted even if you didn't plan to. That's I don't do things like that
My man said "he was defeated" 😂
Why am I watching this before bedtime?
NOTHING about this drug sounds fun!!!! I’ve been reading thru some of these comments-all I can say is thanks for sharing your experience with it-especially those of you who were
trying to help someone who was on it!!!
Keep Posting & Keep The Knowledge Circulating!!!
✊🏼☮️🙏🏼☮️✊🏼
Hardcore users will try/do anything
Have you ever tried funt?
These people are coming on here to tell the bad side of it. This is one of the reasons DARE fails, once people go out and see the side of people having fun it changes their minds.
@@trinut3760 All the more reason to share your experience, thoughts under standing etc!!!
@@Its6string Well the reason people do it is most enjoy it and these cases you here about are the worse. Most of the time this sort of stuff is not how it goes down and as shown in the video many of those cases are from people not knowing what it was and probably took too much. So most experiences would look nothing like all these stories where the whole point is the worst sides of it.
A former coworker of mine and some of his buddies did a bunch of this shit and he wound up trying to take the face eating route. Dude wound up getting beaten to death with a shotgun. Dudes who killed him were gonna dump him in the ocean, did more flakka and wound up screaming at cars in their underwear instead
I was traumatized early in life by the consistency of a Beet.
Sounds like its better to get rid of that vermin, they are lost cases, they chose to do flaka and now need to accept the consequences.
Now THAT sounds Ike a party!
@@toastsoup489 not always, they didnt always choose to do flakka sometimes its a drug thats laced or mixed up as a completely different drug?
dude this actually happened they found him wrapped up in a carpet thats crazy
Now, that's what I call Louder with Crowder.
Don't chase the dragon man. You'll never catch up to the dragon.
You know something
I remember reading about a case where a man vaped flakka…dropped trousers, climbed onto the roof of his apartment and started firing a gun around while screaming something like “I feel delusional and I’m hallucinating!”.
Which of course answers the questions any bystanders might have but also is kind of mind blowing. He knew, on some level, that he was in a completely altered state. This didn’t, however, seem to affect him much and he simply was just strung along by the whims of his own brain.
“String along by the whims of their own brain” is such a good way to describe how some people get while on drugs.
I wonder how many SCPs were inspired by research chemicals 🤔 Really does feel like we're living in something as dismal as that universe
@@luckyy3691 Probably a few. Or by the experiences of taking them…some hallucinogens apparently produce absolutely piss pants terrifying images. Many ‘psychonauts’ swear against taking Datura (devil’s trumpets) because it’s apparently a guaranteed nightmare.
Its dangers have been exposed and documented. Why do Americans keep on buying them?
he probably thought he was hallucinating and in his apartment not naked, shooting finger pistols LOL
25 year paramedic- excited delirium is a big deal, which is why we have protocols for this to sedate with a benzodiazepine or even Ketamine. Saves the person from overheating and dying and law enforcement from getting injured.
The reason they only found THC is that guys system, most likely, is because toxicology didn’t know what to look for with the formulation changes. It’s not like they just look for Flacca. Same thing happened with that Florida guy who was eating the homeless guys face, only THC found in his system.
Nailed it! not even the heaviest space weed gonna psycho somebody out like that
Biochemist here, and I agree, usually if they're only finding THC it's because they either didn't look for Flakka, or didn't use the right test. Having said that, I am familiar with the case involving Austin and he had a well documented history of mental illness going back many months. So, it seems both Flakka and psychosis, but definitely not THC, can cause facial cannibalism.
Also, I'm super impressed that you've made it 25 years as a paramedic. It's a super tough job and a lot of people burn out after only a few years.
That case had nothing to do with this drug....He showed signs for years and had mentally been declining before that event.
There are many docs on that case specifically.
Just punch his name in if your interested.
When I say mental illness im talking "I am a GOD"....."That car CANNOT KILL
ME" type of mental illness.
Very sad and he has been interviewed afterwards (Now on meds to help him) and Flakka was never introduced or used by the guy.
"Excited delirium" is a psuedoscientific case of overactive imagination and not something that should even be dignified with the term "diagnosis." It is an untested, unproven hypothesis without any support in the scientific community at all. It comes from a single source -- the fevered imagination of a single ER doctor who assumed his work experiences qualified him to form new scientific hypotheses and the entire scientific -- meaning actual scientists -- community has been unanimous in calling "excited delirium" junk science and a harmful bit of guesswork that has no place in medicine or law enforcement.
I'm not a scientist either but I do have 1) a BS in neuroscience from a state university and 2) years of experience as a metro cop in a city far and away more dangerous than any municipality in the entire state of Florida. I left police work a couple decades ago and I've noticed an unfortunate and rather disgraceful trend in police work these days, and that's shying away from trying to control a suspect the traditional way -- meaning actually putting your hands on them -- and towards such things as pepper spray and the Taser, two things which were NEVER INTENDED to be a substitute for actually having to fight someone but instead were intermediate weapons on the spectrum sitting between defensive tactics and the lethal force of a firearm. This whole "excited delirium" BS is just more of the same except it's emergency personnel hammering someone with a massive dose of ketamine instead to put them down so the people on scene don't have to go through the scary experience of actually having to struggle with them. And as so-called medical professionals the fact that paramedics are actually playing into this BS is beyond disgraceful.
People, believe me or don't. But before you start calling me names do yourself a favor so you won't look like an imbecile: look in the literature for a single peer-reviewed scientific study of any kind that actually supports the "excited delirium" hypothesis. Trust me, you won't find a single one. Whatever there is in the scientific literature that even addresses the subject is universal in rejecting the idea as harmful psuedscience of the worst kind.
On numerous occasions suspects have died as a result of a huge dose of ketamine or some other chemical restraint injected into them by misguided emergency personnel to restrain them, too often at the instigation of police on the scene. Paramedics should not allow police officers to make their diagnosis for them.
Both police officers and the paramedics who have severely injured or killed people with this nonsense are finally getting the absolute bejesus sued out of them now and it's about time. If you take a million or two from a municipality every time one of their employees screws up that badly, believe me they will eventually change what they're doing.
And to all you would be police officers out there...if you're too chickenshit to actually put your hands on someone then you are unsuited and unqualified to work in law enforcement and should seek other employment that doesn't involve courage and a willingness to accept risk for the greater good.
Sure, back then we put our hands on people all the time. Sometimes it was controlling them with joint locks and pain compliance, sometimes it was hitting them. But amazingly we seemed to always be able to get someone under control without killing them. I routinely had to go to the ER myself to get sewn up after some of these encounters as a result of having been stabbed multiple times, slashed with broken bottles, and other things that a panicking criminal will do to try to keep you from dragging them to jail. And I managed to always subdue the suspect and make the arrest without killing them or even sending them to the hospital most of the time and I did it without ketamine or any other form of chemical restraint. Despite the fact that twenty and more years ago the violent crime rate in this country was far and away worse than it is now, we still managed to take people into custody and the ones who were seriously injured or killed in the process were few and far between. Despite the fact that police work is a lot less dangerous now, they kill suspects at a much higher rate than ever happened when I was doing it. And a big part of that is a lack of courage on the part of some who have courage as part of their job description.
I think the most basic multi-drug tests should pick up a-pvp due to its similarity to amphetamines (and due to the common use of cathinones like it). what I find more plausible is misidentification of synthetic cannabinoids as THC, and synthetic cannabinoids have been at least as common as a-pvp, with the reputation that some of them have really strange effects (very different from cannabis) and do in fact make people do crazy things. they are also used, though more so in very recent years, on black market weed to cheaply make it stronger, so someone could test positive for THC after smoking laced weed, and the synthetic cannabinoid may go unidentified.
either way, you're basing that guess on insufficient information. the perpetrator could just as well have been just mentally ill and sober, you can't diagnose that a random stranger is high at all or high on something specific based on them being violent and crazy.
The first 30 seconds had me rolling around laughing
This guy says this with so much joy...
i live in fl & when i heard about the flakka outbreak i was terrified. bath salts, pcp, gator, flakka… all disturbing. i wouldn’t even use actual bath salts because i thought they were the same thing
Bath salts are Flakka or other research chemicals
Reported
“this [drug] is the absolute worst” *me, remembering that Into the Shadows episode on Krocodil* : yes, right
All of this chemical waiste from labs is evil.
Nobody would need it if cocaine and other drugs were legally sold at the Pharmacy.
Kinda makes you question the veracity of the show doesnt it? When every week there is a new absolute worst horrific drug menace topic.
@@VERCINGET0RIX no. Not really. This is a show about the dark stuff. And this drug is pretty dark. The use of descriptive words doesn't weaken the content. I'd describe any drug that makes you gouge your mother's eyes out as the worst. Even if there were s thousand of them. These are hardcore and bad drugs. People should be told about the horrors that they can cause. Then no one can claim they didn't know what it may do when they take it.
@@InsanityPlea100 claiming any drug ever made anyone "gouge" their "mothers eyes out" is a fucking lie. Alll the more reason to question the veracity.
If you believe such nonsense, you should question your credulity... or intelligence.
@@VERCINGET0RIX not really. he covers the most horrible drugs. drugs that make your flesh decay or make you mutilate your own mother would be considered the worst of them, for most normal people.
if you ended the opening at just a florida man it would have made just as much sense
When I was on heroin I knew a lady who called herself Flakka. Used to get me the best shit I’ve ever used, it was insane. Anyway I asked her why she calls herself that one day and she showed me these gnarly scars and marks all over her arms, legs, stomach and neck. Nothing like you get from shooting up or picking at your skin on crank. Almost looked like she actually tried to peel and cut her own skin off, but like really tried. I guess she used a hell of a lot of this stuff and did something to herself while she was high on it. Wouldn’t really elaborate beyond that. Gnarly shit, glad to be completely free of anything related to drugs now.
Stick to air and water, some food and healthy friendships. That's what life is about.
@@the1observer
Add weed and sherm to that and you got a winner my friend
@@Helmuesi911 Only losers smoke weed.
@@Helmuesi911 uhhhh take away the sherm n add mirco doses of shrooms n your good bro😭💀
Thank God for BUPRINORPHINE
I was having a very bad year and I ran into someone giving it away. He had me sign a paper saying I didn't care and told me to leave the second it was in my body, scared me at first but that fear wasn't crap compared to what was about to happen to me. It hit me and I couldn't speak right or see right or walk right. I felt like my skin was melting and I was shrinking in weight fast and my cloths kept falling off and a lady kept telling me to stop but I couldn't than one guy was recording lots of people were watching and no one helped. It was dusk when this happened and it got to a point where I passed out from fear or whatever idk and woke up in the grass. Fully dressed by the grace of God. Was groggy and confused the next morning socked and having flashes of the past day. It was awful. I was depressed one min and just wanting something like pot but got something totally different. Be careful you don't want this to happen to you.
Why should anyone endanger themselves to help a willing druggie?
Entitled little thing aren't you?
@@youtubecensorship842 with a name like youtube censorship and an attitude like that, it's no surprise you'd say something like this.
Help? Why the fuck would anyone want to help in that state? They don't know you, what would the chances be you turn on them and start attacking the? Don't blame them for not helping, blame yourself that you took that shit
@@youtubecensorship842 i agree, i won't go near a crazed druggie without a weapon.
“fully dressed by the grace of God”?
more like : still alive by the grace of God
I turned 16 in 1970. Drugs hit my suburb in the Philly area a few years before. I dodged many "bullets ". Things are so much worse today. People need hope.
People need therapy, legal drugs that are predictable (knowing the exact dosage and purity and all that), safe places to get high when doing more dangerous drugs, and a cultural change around how we view and treat users and addicts
Religion and anti drug propaganda don't help society as a whole, and it's time for us to get real with it especially in face of things like designer drugs and the fentanyl crisis in the USA.
"bullets" hahaha
People need Jesus Christ. The problem is they have been convinced not to seek Him by society. Someday they will learn - hopefully before it's too late.
The “war on drugs” has been a complete failure and wasted a great deal of money.
Open borders is the opposite of hope.
“When there is no flesh left to save”… Maranatha Lord.
Hope this gets put into the Florida drinking water, I REALLY wanna do round 1 irl
*takes Flakka and gouges out eyes* "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
Fine when it's a movie, not good when it's reality...
If that's the case, I'll just take off my glasses