By Derick Hutchinson
Local 10
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — A grand jury concluded Monday that more treatment resources, more research and better education are needed to fight the illegal street-drug flakka and other synthetic drugs in Broward County in the last two years.
There were 61 flakka-related deaths in Broward County from September 2014 to mid-December 2015, grand jurors found.
Among its suggestions to address the synthetic drug problem, the grand jury called for passage of a law in Florida that would regulate the entire class of synthetic drugs, not just the molecular structure of a particular synthetic drug. A similar law is in effect in at least 32 other states.
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