Tim (30) testifies about the use of the zombie drug flakka: “It kills you, my friends are homeless, my wife is hospitalized”

“You are no longer human. You become paranoid and live from dose to dose.” When Tim* talks about his addiction, his eyes glaze over and his voice shakes. For the first time, the East Flemish young man breaks the silence about flakka, the designer drug that sets off alarm bells at the public prosecutor’s office. What follows is an honest and raw conversation about the ‘highs & lows’ of the so-called zombie drug: from the first naive curiosity to passively watching how he, his friends and his partner withered away.

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