Bath Salts in NYT
| The New York Times ran an article this weekend on the Bath Salts epidemic.
Dr. Jeffrey J. Narmi could not believe what he was seeing this spring in the emergency room at Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Pa.: people arriving so agitated, violent and psychotic that a small army of medical workers was needed to hold them down.
They had taken new stimulant drugs that people are calling “bath salts,” and sometimes even large doses of sedatives failed to quiet them.
“There were some who were admitted overnight for treatment and subsequently admitted to the psych floor upstairs,” Dr. Narmi said. “These people were completely disconnected from reality and in a very bad place.”
Similar reports are emerging from hospitals around the country, as doctors scramble to figure out the best treatment for people high on bath salts. The drugs started turning up regularly in the United States last year and have proliferated in recent months, alarming doctors, who say they have unusually dangerous and long-lasting effects...
Bath salts contain manmade chemicals like mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV, also known as substituted cathinones. Both drugs are related to khat, an organic stimulant found in Arab and East African countries that is illegal in the United States.
We've posted on DoseNation about all the weird stuff people strung out on salts get into. No labels, no dosage recommendations, white powder to pass around among the rabble. Express ticket to paranoid psychosis, yup.
[Thanks Sam Hell and Darren!]
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I think there is possibly some confusion, also between European companies working with bath salt marketers stateside. EU amphetamine "base" there is like 95%ish cut heavier with vitamin c, and which may or not effect psycho-pharmacology, while M-amp is more common so there maybe confusion on equitable weight differences.
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