Walking down a trash-strewn Pompano Beach thoroughfare during a recent rally against the latest street drug scourge, marchers experienced a firsthand encounter with the unfolding crisis.
"See that? We have a flakka patient over there. It's taking eight of us to hold him down."
Broward Sheriff's Capt. Wayne Adkins pointed to a cluster of emergency vehicles with flashing lights a half-block away. The crowd of 150 or so demonstrators in yellow T-shirts stopped and stared.
From squad car to church sanctuary to emergency room to City Hall daises, no other drug has spurred an effort quite as extensive as that aimed at stopping flakka's destruction, organizers say.