Sunday, June 3, 2012

Bath salts

  • Bath salts are suspected to be the reason that a seemingly normal Rudy Eugene ate the face off a man in broad daylight on a Miami street last week.
  • (Examiner)
  • Miami police suspect that what caused a 31-year-old man to rip off his clothes and viciously gnaw on the face of another man in a daylight attack on a busy highway is a new and extremely dangerous street drug known as bath salts.
  • (ABC News)
  • On May 26, Miami police shot and killed a homeless man who was allegedly feasting on the face of another homeless man in a daylight attack on a busy highway.
  • (ABC News)
  • Last Saturday afternoon, a naked man gnawed off most of the face of a half-naked man on a Miami causeway. He continued chewing even after police shot him and did not stop until they shot him dead.
  • (Reuters Blogs)
  • The concern over synthetic drugs has come to a head in recent months, according to experts, and evidenced by events in Miami last weekend.
  • (Forbes)
  • The dangerous synthetic thought to have played a role in a vicious mauling — of a human, by a human — can be as easy to buy as aspirin People first began using them in Germany in 2007, and the drug has since made its way to the U.S.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • The new street drug known as "bath salts" that can lead to delusional behaviour has reached Waterloo Region, police say. Insp. Kevin Thaler confirmed police have seen this new drug twice in the last few months.
  • (Metronews.ca)
  • Note: As you may have guessed from the headline, there is disturbing content in this post. And scroll down for an update.
  • (NPR News)
  • Federal legislation that would criminalize synthetic marijuana and certain bath salts has passed the United States Senate and is on its way to the House of Representatives.
  • (Newsday)

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