Flakka Fears: Cheap Drug Leaves Users Running Naked, Impaled On Fence

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It's part stimulant, part hallucinogen, and you can buy it for $5 a bag.

The street drug flakka is growing in popularity, especially among younger people, because it offers a cheap high. Police say it's responsible for a number of dangerous and bizarre incidents stretching from Florida to Ohio and into Texas.

Law enforcement says for some, the exotic toxicant is stronger than crystal meth. It's so deadly, the Drug Enforcement Agency put the new bath salt drug, cut with rat poison and insecticides, on an emergency list last year, making it illegal.

Mike Haney, 24, tried Flakka and said he felt violent, angry and invincible.

"I went to jail, and I don't remember anything until my third day in jail. I was completely out of my mind," he said. "I could have killed somebody."

That behavior has captured headlines and pictures across the country, whether it was a naked man running through the streets of Florida, another man trying to bust through the glass of a Florida Police station, or a man impaled while trying to scale a fence.

"It's part stimulant like meth or amphetamine, part hallucinogenic like MDMA, and it has the ability to have a little bit of attributes like PCP," DEA special agent Dennis Wichern.

DEA agents say users can suffer extremely high body temperatures up to 107 degrees, hallucinations and a sense of superhuman strength and abilities.

Most Sacramento area departments say the drug is on their radar, but so far, it hasn't become a problem in the region, yet.

Haney considers himself lucky and vows never to touch it again .

"I could have killed myself," he said. "I have no recollection of anything. It was the scariest thing I'd ever been through."