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Warnings are being raised about a new illegal drug in our area.
Both McMinn County authorities and experts on drug abuse say, this new, more potent drug, could have devastating effects on anybody using it.
McMinn County deputies found something extra when they searched a home in Athens after a traffic stop. "It's just downright scary" he says. "It's very addictive highly highly powerful."
They found a drug so new that drug abuse specialists have not learned how to pronounce it yet. It's Alpha, pyrolidinopentiophennon.. code-name: Flakka.
This more-potent cousin of bath salts and methamphetamine was discovered during the search of a house in Athens. Authorities say it's been seen more in Florida and in a few drug cases in Kentucky.
"It's low cost it's easy to produce and it really preys on young people" says Paul Fushcar the director of CADAS, the Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services. He says, because Flakka is a stimulant it immediately elevates the dopamine levels in the body.
"Smoking a cigarette can give you seven times the normal dopamine levels" he says. "Cocaine gives you 300 times the dopamine levels. Meth elevates the levels a thousand times but Flakka raises them several thousand times. "You can use Flakka one time and it could have serious and permanent effects" he says.
Fushcar says drug abusers are always trying to come up with new ways to get high using chemical combinations in the most dangerous ways possible.
Sheriff Joe Guy says he's not surprised to now find it here. "We hate that it's here but we want folks to know that we have discovered some here in McMinn County and East Tennessee."
Jason Williams is charged with possession of Schedule One and Schedule Six drugs for resale, possession of drug paraphenalia and some traffic charges from the stop that led deputies to the drug bust.
He has since bonded out of jail.
By Calvin Sneed