"BATH SALTS": Imminent Threat To Public Safety

The drug commonly known as "bath salts" has become so frighteningly powerful that medical experts are now saying it creates "zombie-like" effects on users.

"Bath salts", a so-called designer drug, also goes by such colorful street names as "Bliss", "Vanilla Sky", "Ivory Wave" and "Purple Wave".

Citing an "imminent threat to public safety", the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in October 2011, made illegal the possession and sale of 3 of the chemical ingredients commonly used to make bath salts: the synthetic stimulants mephredone, MDPV, and methylone. The ban is, for now, effective for one year.

Traffickers of "bath salts" market or sell this dangerous drug on the street under this name ("bath salts") and cunningly label the drug "not for human consumption" as a devious way of avoiding the drug being specifically labelled as illegal.

The bottom line for this powerful drug is that it is extremely dangerous when ingested. Typical symptoms include: (1) agitation, (2) paranoia, (3) hallucination, (4) chest pain, (5) suicidal tendencies, (6) high blood pressure, (7) increased pulse rate, (8) outright aggressiveness, and (9) psychoses.

Thousands of calls all over the United States have been made, and are being made on a daily basis, to poison centers because of the dangerous use of bath salts.

[www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/bath-salts; wbaltv.com/6/11/2012/experts:BathSalts; www.street-insider.com/Presses+Releases]

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