Ideally, you would begin taking prenatal vitamins a few months before you wanted to try to conceive. Once you stopped using birth control and began to try in earnest would be beneficial as well. However, about half of all pregnancies are unplanned.
Flakka, which is also called gravel in some parts of the country, is the street name for a chemical called alpha-PVP, or alpha-pyrrolidinovalerophenone. The chemical is a synthetic cathinone, a category that includes the mild natural stimulant khat, which people in Somalia and the Middle East have chewed for centuries.
Hall added that there have been recent reports of a designer drug marketed as flakka in Ohio and Houston as well as Florida. Flakka is one of a number of cathinone-based drugs that are produced in China and sold online to small-time drug gangs in the U.S. And the business is lucrative. Hall says that with small investment of only a few thousand dollars, a dealer can walk away with as much as $75,000.