New Drug Hits Mzansi

New substance called Flakka poses a serious danger to the youth

- Bonolo Sekudu

A NEW drug, Flakka, is causing worry and panic around the country after recently hitting the streets of Durban. The drug might be new in South Africa but in other countries it has always been known, and is commonly referred to as ‘gravel’. This drug is so intoxicating that people who take it, behave like zombies. Their strange behaviour is way out of human character and disturbing. Already South Africa is dealing with the effects of nyaope which has destroyed so many lives.

WORRY OVER FLAKKA

What looks like just bath salts is a drug that is said to be far more dangerous than drugs that addicts are already struggling to handle. Walter Peterson, who is a director at the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) in Durban, says it is a stimulant similar to cocaine.