There’s no question that wherever you find illegal drugs you find problems, but a recent case has shown that curiously, sometimes an illegal drug can serve as a scapegoat for criminal activity. A suspected New Jersey murderer who claimed that the designer drug “bath salts” was responsible for causing him to kill his girlfriend, and whose case acted as a rallying point for efforts to ban the substance, has turned out to have been clean of the drug. William Parisio, of Cranford, N.J., was indicted in September 2011 for the March 13murder of girlfriend Pamela Schmidt, and the press release announcing the indictment states that toxicology reports found that Parisio did not, in fact, have methylenedioxypyrovalerone, better known as MDPV or “bath salts,” in his system following his arrest.
In the days following his arrest, Parisio’s mother had told any reporter who would listen that he was high on the designer drug at the time he was alleged to have killed Schmidt in the basement of his parents’ Cranford home. Parisio subsequently entered a “not guilty” plea in the New Jersey Superior Court later that month. At that time, the New Jersey Poison Control Center had only just begun to see a rising tide of MDPV abuse; the Center had only encountered 10 cases of bath salts poisoning thus far.
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