Bath Salt Lines (Bath Salt Drug, 2011)
About a month ago, reports out of Miami in America came out of a man who tore off another man’s face with his teeth in a drug-induced daze (Luscombe, 2012) and since then, a few more reports have surfaced. The news horrified the masses as the man is reported to have been so deep in his daze that he did not respond to taser shots or pepper spray administered by police in a bid to stop the gruesome attack. Police officials had to shoot the attacker to get him to stop (Luscombe, 2012).In another report, a man in Louisiana was attacked by his neighbor following a dispute and had chucks of skin torn off from his face (Ferguson, 2012).
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In the news clip above, two more reports have come out of attacks that are allegedly influenced by the use of ‘bath salts’. Because of the frequency of these attacks, the public is now starting to wonder if maybe there is a zombie attack brewing (Gilbert, 2012). The question though is, what exactly is ‘bath salts’?
“If you take the very worst of some of the other drugs — LSD and Ecstasy with their hallucinogenic-delusional type properties, PCP with extreme agitation, superhuman strength and combativeness, as well as the stimulant properties of cocaine and meth — and put them all together, this is what you get”, says Mark Ryan of the Louisiana Poison control center (Taylor, 2012). The main components of ‘bath salts’ are mephedrone, and methylene. In essence, ‘bath salts’ are not a single drug but a component of different drugs. In 2011 alone, there were 6000 calls to poison control centers in the USA related to bath salt abuse. These numbers were reported by the American Society of Physics (Metroland News Service, 2012).
Bath Salt Attack Victim (Staff, 2012)
Side effects of the highly addictive drug include but are not limited to, agitation, insomnia, irritability, depression, paranoia, delusion, suicidal thoughts, seizures, nose bleeds, rapid hearth rate, and impaired perception of reality (CBS06, 2012). The end result is almost always death on the part of the user as the public is placed in danger stemming from it.
It is imperative that any of the readers of this site who are thinking of trying bath salts or know anyone who uses,to remember, it is not worth it, you will die.
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