Bath Salts
are a new highly-addictive stimulants and legal designer drug sold in many public places such as local convenient stores, Smoke shops and through the internet. Bath salts are a mixture of two main chemicals, which are Mephedrone and MDPV (Methylenedioxypyrovalerone) which produce a high similar to cocaine and methamphetamine, but also can cause hallucinations. Some of the ingredients in Bath salts are the same as in many different insecticides and products used to kill aqueous algae and fungus.
Bath Salts can be injected, snorted, and smoked which provide Common street names for Bath Salts are White Lightning, Bliss, Ivory Wave, Charge, Hurricane Charlie, Vanilla Sky, and White Knight. Bath Salts are commonly used by teenagers due to the ease of accessibility; however abuse amongst adults has risen in the latest reports.
Bath Salts have somewhat slipped through the legal loopholes in the system because product packaging states that Bath Salts should not be used for human consumption. Parents should be made aware of the packaging along with abnormal behavior from their children.
There are many dangers of using Bath Salts which are very similar to those of cocaine and methamphetamines, such as irritability, hallucinations, elevated heart rate, hypertension, paranoia, brain damage, delusions of invincibility and super-human strength, suicide, aggressive and violent behavior, and possibility of overdose and/or death.
Bath Salts chemicals are extremely addicting, however unlike Meth and Cocaine, many individuals who overdose from Bath Salts are not as easily treated because common Emergency Room procedures simply do not work the same on the patient. Many patients experience a deeper state of psychosis from Bath Salts than cocaine or methamphetamines, even after heavy sedation from the hospital. Many patients have even reported cases of permanent side effects after stopping Bath salt abuse for years. Directly, Bath salts reports also show cases of violent suicide are increasing and growing fatalities which are reported to Poison Control authorities.
Detoxification and treatment from Bath Salts addiction is provided by The Hills Treatment Center. Each individual case is evaluated by a licensed practitioner, specializing in chemical addiction and substance abuse to ensure a safe, yet comfortable detox.
