bath salts
Using Drugs Could Do WORSE Than End Your Life
A recent report by Russell R. Russo, MD at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, identified a new source of life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis – bath salts. WebMd defines Necrotizing Fasciitis as a dangerous infection of soft-tissue which starts in the subcutaneous tissue (just below the skin) and spreads along the flat layers of fibrous tissue [...]
Bath Salts and Spice: The New Designer Drugs
Bath Salts and Spice (K2) have become the new designer drug. They are inexpensive, readily accessible drugs found in gas stations and thrift marts. What’s not widely known is that Bath Salts and Spice can cause a psychotic break resulting in permanent brain damage and even death. A school in San Diego, California, recently showed a video [...]
Bath Salts No Excuse
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 [...]
Louisville Man Adds Sanitizer to His Bath Salts
Bath salts not getting you quite clean enough—or high enough? In June of this year, a Louisville man added a bizarre twist to the proliferation of cases of “bath salts” drug abuse that emerged nationwide in 2011. Apparently, while high on the hallucinogen mephedrone, known by the street name “bath salts,” Bahad Mahmoud was found [...]
Bath Salts – The Facts in an Infographic
This is an amazing infographic courtesy of the Pat Moore Foundation which shows the real facts about bath salt abuse. Louisiana had a major problem with bath salts. At one time it was thought that we were potentially a major distributor or even manufacturer for the drug nationwide. Since Governor Bobby Jindal banned the bath [...]
What is the Drug Trend in Louisiana?
The Louisiana Poison center receives about 4 to 5 calls a day. You would think that these would be from mothers who are frantic about their children getting hold of household cleaners or someone who accidently overdosed. No, the calls they are getting as of January this year are about kids sniffing fake bath salts [...]
Bath salts in Louisiana
Half a dozen dangerous chemicals sold as fake bath salts and plant food have been outlawed by emergency order in Louisiana. If you are caught selling them you face penalties just like you sold heroin. This is the result of direct action taken by Governor Bobby Jindal. The powders are sold with the names of [...]
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