Spice vs. "Bath Salts": The Other Designer Drug Scare

President Barack Obama's drug czar warned Americans Tuesday about the growing threat of designer drugs marketed as "bath salts" that are in fact dangerous amphetamine-type stimulants."I am deeply concerned about the distribution, sale and use of synthetic stimulants -- especially those that are marketed as legal substances," said Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy."At a time when drug use in America is increasing, the marketing and sale of these poisons as 'bath salts' is both unacceptable and dangerous."

Image credit: Wikipedia By now you've heard about "Bath Salts" (psychoactive stimulants) and "Spice" (synthetic marijuana) -- drugs that were until recently easily found and bought at gas stations and tobacco shops across the nation.  The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)  has cracked down on these and other variations of these drugs by [...]

?Bath salts.? This is a nickname for an incredibly addictive designer drug containing Mephedrone and MDPV???stimulants that make the average cocaine user look like he?s in a coma. Even crystal meth takes a back seat to bath salts. I can say this because I see the effects of it daily. Hallucinations, aggression, violent and suicidal ...

I know you?ve probably already read a few articles about bath salts and their??effects (or alleged effects, i.e. zombie cannibalism) so in this one we?re going to get right to the point. ??Bath salts are dangerous for??chiefly??two reasons, and neither have anything to do with addiction or??hallucinations. The first reason is dosage, and the second ...

The U.S. Navy produced this public service announcement warning recruits against using bath salts for all the obvious reasons -- vomiting, paranoia, brain swelling and violent behavior. Plus, you might see demons! Demons show up in the dramatic re-enactment of a user's death in the video, and then again in a short discussion of the drug by Lt. George Loeffler of the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.

Image credit: Wikipedia Media coverage of the popular drugs collectively called “Bath Salts” has sparked a nationwide movement to ban the substances from retail stores, where they've been sold legally for years. (I’ve covered the effects of the drugs in a previous post here.) President Barack Obama signed a bill into law earlier this [...]

Despite their ban, the use of "bath salts" is still escalating. And the kinds of neurological effects they bring are disturbing and severe.

States scramble to ban components of illegal drugs marketed as “bath salts” as more and more problems emerge from their use, while legitimate bath-salts makers find sales taking a negative plunge.