"This is when people started referring to Flakka and Bath Salts as 'Zombie Drugs' because of the way they affect users"
Despite this is going to irritate the Living Dead cult who want the Z-word reserved for the undead -- apologies for that in advance.
When the characters of the ELE Series use the word "zombie," they are using a 21st century colloquialism, which does not refer to the living dead, The Walking Dead, or any George Romero films. Below is the 101 intro on the 'zombie drugs' and the connection to the characters using the Z-word. R140 "zoms" were designed around bath salts and flakka users (see videos at the end).
Other blog posts under the category of The Real Life Zombies contain information on events of 2012, another influence on the "zoms".
The 101 on flakka from the Addiction Center:
“Flakka is a dangerous Stimulant that causes hyperstimulation, increased strength, and paranoia. In some cases, it causes the user to enter into an excited delirium and have violent episodes.
Synthetic Cathinones are Stimulants that are chemically related to the substance Cathinone, which is found in the Khat plant.
Flakka is similar to the street drug Bath Salts.
Synthetic Cathinones like Flakka are part of a group of drugs known as New Psychoactive Substances (NPS). First emerging in the drug market in the mid-2000s, they have been designed to mimic other illicit drugs such as Cocaine, Ecstasy, and LSD.
Flakka is thought to have started gaining popularity in South Florida, and the drug appeared in headlines when a 19-year-old college student stabbed a couple to death and then starting gnawing on the male victim’s face.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse says that Flakka causes a condition called “excited delirium” which involves hyperstimulation, hallucinations, increased strength, and paranoia. These symptoms can lead to self-injury and violent aggression or cause users to have a psychotic episode. Flakka also impacts the body, raising body temperature up to 104 degrees (hyperthermia). Users may also experience liver and renal failure, hypertension, narrowing of the blood vessels, irregular heartbeat, heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, and death.
In 2011, Synthetic Cathinones were involved in over 20,000 emergency department visits. The public fear of Bath Salts started in 2012, when a Miami man stripped naked and ate the face of another man in broad daylight. When police ordered him stop eating the man’s face, he growled like an animal and the officer was forced to shoot the attacker; it took 4 bullets to finally stop him. This is when people started referring to Flakka and Bath Salts as “Zombie Drugs” because of the way they affect users, causing them to lose touch with reality and try to eat other people. This trend started in Florida but is slowly spreading throughout the rest of the country.
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Warning: Some of these videos may be a bit much for the sensitive. The links will lead you directly to videos on the YouTube platform since they are age restricted.
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