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The number of people using bath salts, a synthetic drug believed to induce psychosis and mimic the effects of cocaine, is skyrocketing across West Virginia, with more than 80 cases of drug abuse reported to the West Virginia Poison Control Center since January. Last year, the poison center had three calls about the "bath salts," a synthetic drug that can increase blood pressure and heart rate, and can cause agitation, hallucinations, extreme paranoia and delusion. So far this year, there have been 83 cases in the state that have been reported to the Poison Control Center.
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Kanawha County health officials will not ban synthetic marijuana or "bath salts," because the state already has. Bath salts, which mimic the effects of cocaine, and K-2, which is similar to marijuana, have become an epidemic in the United States, and have led to bans in several jurisdictions throughout the country. The drugs can lead to paranoia, psychotic behavior and even death.
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.... . which contains cocaine base,"§841(b)(1)(A)(iii), and a minimum 5-yea... the same physiological and psychotropic effects. See id., at 14-22. The key differencebetween the...
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HARRISBURG -- The state Senate is expected to give final approval today to legislation banning so-called "bath salts," synthetic marijuana and the hallucinogenic plant known as salvia divinorum. Not to be confused with the pricey soaks found at the mall, these bath salts resemble baking soda and are sold at convenience stores, head shops and over the Internet. Bath salts can be smoked, injected or snorted. They mimic the effects of methamphetamines and cocaine and can cause strong hallucinations. They can cause heart palpitations, loss of appetite and sleep deprivation, according to drug counselors and medical experts. The drug has long been popular in Europe, but has become more common in the United States among those looking for a cheap high.
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[...] LMD has been used to measure the effects of acute and chronic cocaine administration on the gene expression profiles of neurons from a brain region called the ventral tegmental area, which plays a central role in the reinforcing properties of alcohol and other drugs (Backes and Hemby 2003).
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A Lincoln County man has filed a lawsuit asking the courts to hold retailers who sold synthetic cocaine under the guise of bath salts responsible for the effects or damage the substances may have caused users. Jason Vance of Ranger filed the lawsuit last month in Lincoln Circuit Court against K&B Quick Stop in Harts, L T Jones Tobacco Plus in Harts, Smokin' Joes's Arcade in Barboursville, and Bebe's I and II in Madison.
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West Virginia lawmakers are advancing proposals they hope will keep the state one step ahead of the latest versions of illicit drugs. The House and Senate each unanimously passed bills Wednesday that target synthetic drugs designed to mimic the effects of marijuana and cocaine.
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Bath salts, a synthetic drug that became illegal in Maine over the summer, has posed a problem for law enforcement agencies throughout the state, particularly in the Bangor area. Below is a brief summary of what bath salts are and what happens when people are on them. What are bath salts? Bath salts are designer drugs that typically contain mephedrone or methylenedioxypyrovalerone, also known as MDPV. The drugs appearance is similar to that of cocaine. Bath salts are considered dangerous and mimic the effects of methamphetamines.
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Back in the 1980s at the height of the crack epidemic in urban America, our nation's leaders labored under the misconception that the less expensive form of cocaine was much more addictive than its powder form, based on the testimony of an "expert" government witness. Distorted visions of crack babies overtaking inner cities danced in their heads, much to the detriment of fair and reasonable public policy. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who authored the decision with John Paul Stevens, concluded that if powder and crack cocaine, the product of powder cocaine and baking soda crystallized, possess "the same physiological and psychotropic effects," then their users should be treated the same. The ruling deemed the 1986 law that created the disparate sentencing guidelines as "disproportionate...
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Recent survey research has documented important increases during the 2000s in the misuse and abuse of several prescription drugs (Vicodin, Percocet, Codeine, Dilaudid, Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Adderall, Ritalin, among others). This article focuses upon the patterns of pill use and misuse among young women who are middle-class white and college-educated, and they are also experienced marijuana users who report recreational consumption of other illegal drugs. The ethnographic data provides insights about various ways and reasons that such prescription pill misuse occurs among 12 college-educated, (upper) middle-class, white/Asian women in their 20s who were involved in a major ethnographic study of marijuana and blunts. Three patterns of pill use were observed: recreational; quasi...
... pills, as well as drugs such as cannabis, cocaine powder, or ecstasy at a party, dancing all night, and feeling the side effects of them the next day. Literature review. Nonmedica...
