First Plant Food Now Bath Salts

"Hurricane Charlie","White Lightening" and "Ivory Wave", bath salts sold all over America, no there not for a aromatherapy bath. These bath salts are for the purpose of snorting, injecting, smoking with the purpose of becoming high.

The Drug Enforcement Agency has no regulations over these salts but are under federal investigation. The actions of these salts are in equivalent to methamphetamine abuse, according to poison control centers and law enforcement agencies.

Law enforcement state some of the bath salts are being shipped from Europe however, the source is not clear.

The bath salts powder and tablet form, usually contain mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone called MDVP. The effects can include hallucinations, paranoia, accelerated heart beats, insomnia and even suicidal thoughts. The chemicals are available legally in products which are sold on the internet and in convenience stores, tobacco outlets, truck stops and more, as bath salts and plant food. They are at times not being used for the intended purpose according to labeling.

A DEA alert has indicated this product is being sold for $25 to $50 for a 50 milligram packet.

Hawaii, Michigan, Louisiana, North Dakota and Kentucky are considering legislation to ban these products.

A report from Mississippi, notes a man who got high off the salts and then proceeded to slash his face and stomach. He had survived by luck, other people have not had that luck.

In that man's case who had written a letter to a Mississippi paper to warn people to stay away from them. He admits trying every drug from Heroine to Crack, this drug had terrified him. The hallucinations he had endured still have a remain psychological effect on him.

In one county of Mississippi sheriff's authorities believe a woman had overdosed from the powder over in their county. In the southern part of Louisiana, a 21 year old man had cut his throat and killed himself with a shot gun. Authorities from Tippah County, Mississippi are looking into a case of a man charged with capital murder in December to determine if he was under the influence of the drug at the time he committed murder.

Executive assistant Gary Boggs, at the DEA states there is a long process to regulate these kinds of designer chemicals, which includes reviewing of abuse information. It is a process which can take several years to complete.

Director of Louisiana's poison control center, Dr. Mark Ryan, stated he does believe that the states can effectively ban this chemical. Call on this chemical in the state of Louisiana had decreased greatly since they had imposed the ban. Dr. Ryan remarks these chemicals, MDPV and mephedrone are manufactured in a lab, there are no regulations on these chemicals due to the fact they are not marketed for human consumption. These stimulants effect the brains neurotransmitters.

These chemicals cause extreme cravings for the drug. People will binge on it for three or four days before ending up in the hospital emergency room. Even with the terrifying trip of the high, they will go back and repeat the experience.

Director of the National Drug Policy Control, Gil Kerlikowske, released in a statement today, two ways parents can protect their children.

Talk to your children about drugs and make sure they know the harmful effects of drugs.

Learn risk factors which can end up in drug use. Peer pressure is the number factor for risk of drug use in children. Other factors have included poor social skills, classroom behavior and failing grades.

Substance Abuse Counselors in Detroit:

Choices and Changes

5555 Conner Avenue Suite 1611

Detroit

313-731-2934

Dr. Carol High-Van Dyke

7430 Second Avenue

Detroit

313-718-1956

Poison Control Center In Detroit:

4160 John R Street #616

Detroit

313-745-5711

Poison Control Emergency

1-800-222-1222

Sources:

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