Bath Salts Mephedrone MPDV - Mountainside Treatment Center on Fox News
Program Director Fred Keane speaks about Bath Salts
Here are some basic facts about bath salts:
It's a central nervous system stimulant, so it will increase your blood pressure, increase your heart rate, can cause anything from chest pain, heart attack, stroke. Those are just the physical symptoms. Some psychological (symptoms include) delusions, paranoia, psychosis.
They're highly addictive, very dangerous
The substances contained in these products have absolutely nothing in common with actual bath salts.
“Bath salts” are snorted, injected or smoked which causes hallucinations, paranoia, rapid heart rates and suicidal thoughts.
The salts, which are allegedly as powerful as methamphetamines, have already been banned in the European Union, Australia, Canada and Israel. In the United States, Florida, Louisiana and North Dakota have all recently banned the substances.
Historically, people have sought out and discovered legal substances that while not intended for this purpose, do provide a high. Airplane glue, paint thinner, Sterno, cough syrup and aerosols are a few examples.
Increasingly, law enforcement agents and poison control centers say the advertised bath salts with complex chemical names are an emerging menace in several other U.S. states where au-thorities talk of banning their sale.
The marketing scheme for “Ivory Wave” and other bath salt aliases is such that labeling them with, "not for human consumption," allows circumventing of the laws regarding the substances contained in them.
The active ingredients, the stimulants mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), had been previously unregulated because they aren’t marketed, or likely intended, for human consumption. This chemical has reportedly been sold since 2008 as a research chemical. It has also been sold as a legal drug alternative and marketed in the United States as "Bath salts" where you could find it in convenience stores, discount tobacco outlets, gas stations, pawnshops, tattoo parlors, truck stops and other locations.
The marketing scheme is similar to that for Spice, K2 which was sold as incense, and herbal smoking blends.
These altered chemicals avoid laws on what they should or can be used for. Unfortunately, with something new like “Bath salts” no laws exist to restrict its use, especially when designated with the "not for human consumption" designation.
