Copied from the ever-amazing riseabove.

[skindyedindigo]

Bath Salts

What people aren't talking about is the violence. And I don't mean the face eating, which is clearly not typical of an OD on bath salts.

They're not talking about needing 9 people just to get someone peeking on bath salts out of the back of a police cruiser. They're not talking about people getting high on this shit and walking into

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[myrrhmade]

Amen, excellent post. Thank You.

[skindyedindigo]

Thank Chriss, she's the one that wrote it. I simply copied it. So many of my friends are joking about this, acting like it isn't a big deal. They don't understand how dangerous this drug is and what it can do to a body. It's fucking terrifying.

[riseabove]

It really, really, really is terrible. There's a town a few hours north of where I live and the hospital there is seeing 10 cases a week. And that's just the people that are bad off enough to be brought in to the ER.

This shit is bad news.

Everything is so sensationalized anymore. It's sad, because society just gets so overwhelmed with news stories about people eating each other's organs that the real issue is skirted over.

I watched a news report of a young boy (he was either 11 or 14, just heart breaking) who used bath salts, and he ended up hallucinating 34 or 36 cop cars in his parents front lawn, and police helicopters, then he turned around and said he didn't feel right, picked up a butcher knife and slit his throat in front of his parents.

He lived through that only to take his own life a few days later.

THAT STORY is the real face of this drug.

[skindyedindigo]

Jesus Christ. That poor boy. That family. God.

I can't even imagine... Jesus.

[riseabove]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/face-eating-attack-possibly-linked-bath-salts-miami/story?id=16451452

the most "famous" story regarding this drug.

[skindyedindigo]

That really is the story that brought the drug into light around here. I avoid looking for drugs or learning about new ones (for obvious reasons) but that was everywhere on the news/media.

While what happened re: this story isn't common with ODing on bath salts it is still terrifying. People are so deeply ensnared by these hallucinations that there isn't anything to base reality off of. Even in my worst moments when I was a drug user I still knew where I was, who I was. These people don't. It's like meth on steroids.

[riseabove]

It's nearly like PCP on steroids, even. Bad. News.

[riseabove]

LOL at your last sentence, there.

Go Miami!

[skindyedindigo]

Good for Florida working to make sure that shit can't get a better grip. I'll make sure to come running if that all decide to head west.

Damn. I hope that AL starts working on laws to ban it before it gets bad. But I have a horrible gut feeling that they won't. :-/