The Bethlehem killing and Florida murder were both linked to the ingestion of Flakka, much known as the "zombie drug" that lets the person taking it feel like a superhero in an experience of psychosis and paranoia. Such drug seems to bring a person to a certain realm of great power and numbness to pain that result to delusions and unbelievable agitation.
The 30-year-old James Heimbach from Bethlehem, New York, was charged of homicide for beating a man to death using a shotgun. Austin Harrouff from Florida is also facing charges for murdering a couple, and he reportedly ate the flesh of the man's face. Both criminals were high on the deadly flakka drug when they did the respective crimes.
Flakka drug is also called bath salt drug as this looks like such. It is a synthetic cathinones that may come in the form of powders, resins, crystals, capsules, and tablets, as described by DEA. Flakka drugs can be taken by snorting, ingesting, smoking or injecting.
Kenneth Katz, a medical toxicologist at Lehigh Valley Hospital foretold the dangers of flakka when he appeared before lawmakers and testified about the deadly dangers of synthetic drugs. Katz also identified a designer drug known as mab-chminaca, which is a synthetic marijuana that affected the locals and actually caused two deaths. "If you want to create a drug, it's like Frankenstein. You add a bolt here and tweak it there. You end up with a novel compound that may be legal..." Katz said to the Morning Call.
Scientists call flakka as a hell drug or a zombie drug as the person taking it behaves like a demon-possessed individual and acts like a zombie. The eating of the man's face in Florida was much like a picture of how a zombie would grossly kill a human being.
Flakka is too cheap, at $3 or $5. The residents of Bethlehem and Florida are taking caution today because of the inexpensive drug that can cost lives.
