Bath Salts – The New Crack

Hospital doctors have warned that the new drugs – which go under names including Aura, Ivory Wave and Vanilla Sky – have dangerous side effects and users have needed several people to hold them down after arriving in emergency rooms.

‘If you take the worst attributes of meth, coke, PCP, LSD and ecstasy and put them together,” he said, “that’s what we’re seeing sometimes.”

Mark Ryan, the director of the Louisiana Poison Center, told the newspaper: ‘If you take the worst attributes of meth, coke, PCP, LSD and ecstasy and put them together, that’s what we’re seeing sometimes.’

It is related to khat – an organic stimulant found in the Middle East and East Africa that is illegal in the U.S.