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.
Flakka catapulted into the headlines a few years ago, when it was was prevalent in areas of South Florida, and again a year ago, when it was suspected by police in a case in which a Florida State University student who consumed it fatally stabbed a couple he happened to see outside their home, then started to eat the manâs face.