Eating live mice, having sex with trees and gouging eyeballs out: The addicts who can't get enough of £2.30 'cannibal' drug Flakka hitting UK

Flakka, dubbed the 'cannibal drug' which leaves users smelling of cat urine, is a new man-made substance imported from China which causes zombie-like psychotic episodes and cannibalistic attacks – and experts say it's beginning to sweep Britain.

Drug expert Abbas Kanani told Sun Online: "Flakka appears to be gaining popularity in the UK due to its low price at £2.30-a-hit – it's extremely worrying.

"In 2018 there were 950 cases reported of paramedics finding users in a zombie like state," he says.

"Gangs are now trying to bring this product in, and there have been reports of a growing number of users of this drug."

Flakka, which looks like household bath salts, can be eaten, snorted, injected or vaped.

It causes a high similar to cocaine, but also delusions and paranoia.

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Eating a homeless man's face in naked flakka-fuelled rage

While the drug originated in Florida where synthetic drugs like MDMA are already popular, there have been several reported cases of it in the UK over the past few months – and clips of users erratically jerking their limbs after taking it are circulating on social media on a daily basis.

In 2016, a naked British tourist was arrested after running through San Antonio behaving aggressively after taking flakka, while in September last year, a video showing prisoners biting the head off a live mouse while high on the drug caused outrage.

Shockingly, the drug has been linked to a wave of cannibalistic and violent, frenzied attacks.

In 2012, Rudy Eugene, thought to be high on the drug, chewed the face and eyeball of  homeless Ronald Poppo in Miami.

Eugene was naked when he attacked and maimed him in an 18-minute encounter which saw him take off Poppo's pants and bite off most of his face, leaving him blind in both eyes.

Most recently 32-year-old Camille Balla, from Florida, cut out her mother's eyes during a drug-fuelled murder and placed them neatly on top of a cardboard box.

She was found covered in blood, and reportedly shouted "I killed my mother and I need help".

She later told authorities she smoked weed, that she believed may have been laced with flakka.

In another harrowing case, Derren Morrison was accused by police of smoking flakka before attacking 82-year-old Louise Clinton, leaving her with broken bones, cuts and a head injury.

It was claimed Morrison told investigators he believed his victim was a blood-soaked demon trying to kill him.

The addict who had sex with a tree

In 2015, an Australian man, Kenneth Crowder, then 41, was arrested while high on flakka after trying to have sex with a tree.

He was spotted running round Melbourne naked and shouting he was God, before police officers brought him down with a taser twice after he attempted to fight them.

Incredibly, before his arrest he was able to rip the stun gun probes from his body and tried to stab the officer with his own badge.

Crowder faced charges of battery on a law-enforcement officer, resisting with violence and assault with a deadly weapon on a law-enforcement officer.

It's cheaper then a Big Mac and smells like cat wee

Despite it's disturbing side effects, the drug – also known as alpha-PVP, bubble or gravel  – has surged in popularity because it's so cheap – costing just £2.30 a hit.

"Flakka is cheaper than a Big Mac,” Kevin Stanfill, a DEA special agent, told the Sun-Sentinel.

A study by Lancaster University in 2011 found that one in 10 young adults from a sample of 200 had taken the drug 'bubble' within the past year and one in 20 within the past month.

While some of these would have been Flakka, Dr Fiona Measham, who led the study said: "Bubble has emerged and evolved as a generic term used in the north of England to refer to any unknown white powders which are synthetic stimulants."

Experts in America now warn that flakka is overtaking crack cocaine as the new drug epidemic sweeping the country.

Terrifyingly, Abbus tells us the drug isn't yet properly recognised in the UK by the authorities- despite numerous reports of substance abuse.

But with a cheap street value and highly addictive nature, experts say it won't be long until it is.

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