Bath Salts Lead To Radical Surgery and Flesh Eating Bacteria
By JoNel Aleccia A New Orleans woman's experiment with the illicit drugs dubbed “bath salts” cost her her arm — and nearly her life — after she was ravaged by flesh-eating bacteria that invaded an injection site. The 34-year-old woman showed up at a
So-called “bath salts” are sold as synthetic powders that “often contain various amphetamine-like chemicals,” according to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, which warned that injections can cause the ravaging skin
Even though the legislature banned the sale of bath salts here in West Virginia back in April and the federal government did the same in September, the products are still showing up. The Doddridge County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition is holding
So-called “bath salts” are sold as synthetic powders that “often contain various amphetamine-like chemicals,” according to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, which warned that injections can cause the ravaging skin
January 19, 2012 — Intramuscular injection of the street drug known as "bath salts" may cause necrotizing fasciitis, a rare, flesh-eating bacteria s.
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