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Staff ReportsSeptember 27, 2016

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday outlawed a designer drug she said has been blamed for multiple deaths in Florida. Bondi signed an emergency rule targeting the drug — a synthetic opiate called U-47700 — during a news conference at the Marion County Sheriff’s Office in Ocala. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the substance […]

Associated PressApril 8, 2016

A year after it ravaged South Florida, flakka – the synthetic street drug known for causing psychotic outbursts – is virtually gone. The deaths. The hallucinating users. The arrests. All of it. Broward County became infamous as the epicenter for the amphetamine, making national headlines in April 2015 after slowly building on the scene for […]

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Tag: synthetic street drug

Pam Bondi declares designer drug U-47700 illegal

Street drug flakka ravaged South Florida, then disappeared