Don't Mess With Bath Salts!

[Dr. Cheese]

Vitals - Woman loses arm to flesh-eating bacteria from bath salts

This woman got messed up!

[BoomingBass]

And that is why you don't inject yourself with random substances nicknamed "bath salt".

[fuzzy beard]

Is that a slang name or are they really using bath salt?

[Pilgrim]

It's called bath salts but it's something new that MORONS can try ingesting.

DO

NOT.

People have died.

[yodedude2]

she's fortunate if she survives.

"Such flesh-eating infections can kill quickly, with victims requiring surgery within an average of 25 hours of admission in order to survive, according to one study."

[fuzzy beard]

I wish harm on no one but come on! Why would you put junk in your vains like that!

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by fuzzy beard

Is that a slang name or are they really using bath salt?

It's a slang name intended to "fool" people looking for the drugs on sale in a head shop. Like "video head cleaner".

[Pilgrim]

Bath Salts Drugs: Problems, Ingredients, Dangers, and More

Excerpt:

What do you experience when you take bath salts?

"Agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain, suicidality. It’s a very scary stimulant that is out there. We get high blood pressure and increased pulse, but there’s something more, something different that’s causing these other extreme effects. But right now, there’s no test to pick up this drug. The only way we know if someone has taken them is if they tell you they have.

The clinical presentation is similar to mephedrone [a chemical found in other designer drugs], with agitation, psychosis, and stimulatory effects. Both of these agents should be of concern, as severe agitated behavior, like an amphetamine overdose, has occurred.

A second concern is the ongoing suicidality in these patients, even after the stimulatory effects of the drugs have worn off. At least for MDPV, there have been a few highly publicized suicides a few days after their use," Horowitz says.

[()smoke()]

i might have missed it, but is has it been ascertained the bacteria was in the substance and not on a dirty needle?

[pflash4001]

What the hell is that drug? I've never heard of it.

[Eric Perry]

I have several knucklehead clients using this stuff, along with spice and the newest life-ender, called Cloud 9. Sadly, one of them losing a limb probably wouldn't stop the others from looking for an under-the-radar high!

[Happynoj]

I heard about another drug that is popular in Russia at the moment that causes necrosis around the injection sites. Can't remember what it's called though. Nasty stuff.

[sandmangeck]

Originally Posted by ()smoke()

i might have missed it, but is has it been ascertained the bacteria was in the substance and not on a dirty needle?

From the Article
"The final diagnosis was necrotizing fasciitis caused by streptococcus bacteria. Such flesh-eating infections can kill quickly, with victims requiring surgery within an average of 25 hours of admission in order to survive, according to one study."

You don't get stept from a drug. She got it from a dirty needle. Bath Salts is a dirty drug, but sharing needles can def. kill also.

[IconBasser]

wow. Why not just light up a joint, they're easy enough to get. This sounds about as smart as huffing paint.

why the hell would I want to ingest something that causes psychosis and panic attacks?

[BassPenguin22]

Originally Posted by Happynoj

I heard about another drug that is popular in Russia at the moment that causes necrosis around the injection sites. Can't remember what it's called though. Nasty stuff.

I saw a news video about it. Its called "Crocodil" or something like that

[stratovani]

One thing's for sure, it's a great way to clean up the gene pool! A few less idiots on the world is always a good thing!

[spade2you]

Originally Posted by stratovani

One thing's for sure, it's a great way to clean up the gene pool! A few less idiots on the world is always a good thing!

One would think, but usually there's a lot of collateral damage along the way.

[spade2you]

Originally Posted by sandmangeck

From the Article
"The final diagnosis was necrotizing fasciitis caused by streptococcus bacteria. Such flesh-eating infections can kill quickly, with victims requiring surgery within an average of 25 hours of admission in order to survive, according to one study."

You don't get stept from a drug. She got it from a dirty needle. Bath Salts is a dirty drug, but sharing needles can def. kill also.

That's where the bacteria probably came from, but who the heck knows how clean the "bath salts" were.

Pharmaceutical injectables are typically buffered to a safe pH and safe tonicity (absolute concentration). When shooting up street drugs, it's anyone's guess. There are inherent risks with the unclean needles. The injectable substances can be very harsh on the surrounding tissues and basically destroy local tissue, which is a great meal for any bacteria in the syringe, as well as local opportunistic bacteria.

[hdracer]

Originally Posted by stratovani

One thing's for sure, it's a great way to clean up the gene pool! A few less idiots on the world is always a good thing!

+1 I like to call it, Nature weeding out the stupid

[armywalaby]

Man, maybe if it was ok to smoke a joint people wouldn't be trying ridiculous things like that.