Herbal Bath Salts Dangerous Drug or Relaxation Stimulus

Herbal bath salts are being sold everywhere because they are popular. Is there a danger associated with these bath salts or is it just hyped up propaganda designed to sell more products? What is the real use of this herbal bath salts product?

The Herbal bath salts are sold under the names of Stardust , Ivory Wave, Spark-20, Charge +, Ocean, Scarface, White Lightning, Hurricane Red Dove, Charlie, White Dove and Cloud-9. The price is twenty dollars for a two-gram package, making it a cheap legal high that will not mess up a piss test. Those twenty dollars are a cheap price to pay to commit suicide, as the effects of this drug are deadly.

The herbal bath sales are manufactured in Europe, China, and India sold worldwide on the internet, convenience stores, cigarette supply stores, gas stations, etc where it has no age requirements to purchase. This makes the product available to a wide array of people.

The herbal items in this product make the bath salts deadly. The accessibility of the products makes it a real problem in our society. The big draw of this item is that it produces a meth like high but the user has a clean 'piss test'. This unique property makes this product highly desirable for people of all ages who use recreational drugs.

Even thought this item is marketed as a bath salt, most people who purchase this product do not have bathing in mind. Abusers can snort, smoke, or inhale the herbal product to give the user a quick high. This feeling of being high keeps getting stronger as time marches on. The human body cannot metabolize the product so it simply keeps getting stronger as time wears on.

Use of the herbal bath salt products will give the person who uses the product a super high feeling, which is akin to crack, meth or heroin but far worse. The effects of this drug on the human body are widespread. It makes the heart race to over 200 beats a minute, which is truly fast enough to blow a value in the heart. Paranoia, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, and delusions are common side effects as are vomiting, seizures. The most common side effect of this drug is death.

There is nothing relaxing is death, so if someone you know is using this herbal bath salt product in a way it is unintended please seek help immediately.

Resources:

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/01/drug-trend-snorting-bath-salts/

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dangerous-high-ivory-wave-street-drug-sold-bath/story?id=12600896&page=1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012202217_2.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-23/poison-center-beware-fake-bath-salts-.html

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_79ac9362-21a5-11df-8cf1-001cc4c002e0.html