`Devil`s Drug`: Flakka Is Driving Florida Insane

01/09/2016

NBC News -- An emergency room doctor calls it as "five-dollar insanity." A rehab director says it's the "devil's drug."

In the 14 months since the epidemic began in Broward County, 60 people have died. Hospitals are getting dozens of patients a day. And some nights, half the calls to police are flakka-related emergencies.

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