Bath Salts Short-Term Effects
Effects on the Mind:
- Uncontrollable craving for the drug
- Insomnia
- False euphoria rapidly evolving into paranoia
- Nightmares
- Depression
- Severe agitation
- Hallucinations and delusions
- Self-harm
- Suicidal thoughts or suicide
- Psychosis
- Violent behavior
Effects on the Body:
- Skin rash
- Mephedrone stink (the person smells like mephedrone, a drug used in bath salts)
- Skin-crawling sensation
- Excessive sweating
- High fever
- Loss of appetite
- Sexual dysfunction
- Nosebleed and nose burns
- Muscular cramping or tension
- Numbness or tingling
- Dizziness
- Blurred vision
- Rapid involuntary movement of the eyes
- Nausea and vomiting
- Chest pains and heart attacks
- Headaches
- Seizures
- Pain at the back of the mouth
- Ringing or buzzing in the ears
- Excessive grinding of teeth
- Brainstem herniation (increase of pressure inside the skull that can cause death)
There have been many instances of users experiencing violent, psychotic and life-threatening episodes after using bath salts.
Bath Salts Long-Term Effects
The harm caused by bath salts can be long‑term and permanent, including:
- Increased blood pressure and heart rate
- Kidney damage and failure
- Liver damage
- Breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue (muscles that control bone movement)
- Brain swelling and brain death
- Death
A study found that one of the main substances in bath salts, known as MDPV, is highly addictive—possibly even more so than methamphetamine, one of the most addictive drugs.
In the United States, bath salts were linked to nearly 23,000 emergency room visits within a single year. Another study in the Midwestern United States showed that more than 16 percent of patients sent to hospital emergency rooms for bath salt abuse were in critical condition or died.
The adverse effects of MDPV can last for six to eight hours after use. It has been reported to cause prolonged panic attacks, psychosis and deaths.
This Product Is Poison
“This product is poison. After the first hour, I started to feel the cocaine-ish comedown that grew increasingly worse. The left side of my chest began to tighten and my heart was beating faster than ever. Paranoia set in. I was very close to requesting hospital treatment, but I waited it out. I would get better, a little worse, back and forth, but eventually after three to four hours, I was feeling thankful to be alive and sober. The reports of people dying or going to the hospital ARE NOT BULL***T. This is dangerous poison that some scum is making cash off of in the most evil of ways.” —G.F.
Stay the hell away from this
“I am an experienced drug user who experimented with more drugs than I have fingers. [Bath salts] are more dangerous than crack. The comedown was the worst experience of my life. It lasted nine hours. Nothing but fear, heart palpitations, jitters, severe nausea and everything coming and going a million miles an hour. It was terrible. Because of this experience, I will never use drugs again. I am lucky to still be alive to warn you. Stay the hell away from this.” —E.W.
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