New Bath Salts Hit the Streets

Chemists have quickly gone to work creating new “bath salt” products with a slightly different chemical makeup than the previous generation, barely skirting around recently-enacted legislation that pulled these products off shelves. In Virginia, there are reports of a product called “Amped” that has amphetamine-like qualities when ingested. Amped and other bath salts can bring on a host of effects, including increased heart rate and/or blood pressure, seizures, paranoia, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and, in severe cases, death.
 
Amped is being sold as a “ladybug attractant.” According to the state’s Poison Control Center, so far there have been six reports of individuals ingesting the drug in Virginia.
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