People Are Using Bath Salts to High?
People are using bath salts to high? – When Neil Brown got high on dangerous chemicals sold as bath salts, he took his skinning knife and slit his face and stomach repeatedly. Brown survived, but authorities say others haven’t been so lucky after snorting, injecting or smoking powders with such innocuous-sounding names as Ivory Wave, Red Dove and Vanilla Sky. Some say the effects of the powders are as powerful as abusing methamphetamine. Increasingly, law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the advertised bath salts with complex chemical names are an emerging menace in several US states where authorities talk of banning their sale. From the Deep South to California, emergency calls are being reported over-exposure to the stimulants the powders often contain: mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV. Sold under such names as Ivory Wave, Bliss, White Lightning and Hurricane Charlie, the chemicals can cause hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rates and suicidal thoughts, authorities say. The chemicals are in products sold legally at convenience stores and on the Internet as bath salts and even plant foods. However, they aren’t necessarily being used for the purposes on the label. Instead, people are getting high on the so-called bath salts. Mississippi lawmakers this week began considering a proposal to ban the sale of the powders, and a similar step is being sought in Kentucky. In Louisiana, the bath salts were outlawed by an emergency order after the state’s poison center …
UK studying claims HSBC accounts used by criminals
Filed under: Kentucky Drug Use
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Mother: Sky Harbor woman has mental health issues
Filed under: Kentucky Drug Use
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Doing The Same Thing And Getting Nowhere
Filed under: Kentucky Drug Use
While I applaud your efforts and the efforts of those wishing to get control of our heroin problem, no program will be effective until we change the basic policy on drug abuse that underlies our actions. Prohibition as policy has been our guide for …
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