10 Crazy Bath Salts Stories
The first time you encountered the phrase “bath salts” used in a drug abuse context, what immediately crossed your mind? You probably wondered how anyone could use that thing we use to soften and perfume our baths as a recreational drug. Unfortunately for society in general, the drug known as bath salts is nowhere near as harmless as those lovely Epsom salts.
Do a search on bath salts, and you will see that the word that often gets associated with it is ‘zombie’. This is most likely in reference to that zombie face-eating attack in Miami, Florida all those years ago. Although medical examiners have long since ruled out bath salts in that incident, the ‘zombie’ tag stuck. Bath salts may have nothing to do with that attack, but the drug often comes up in other incidents that are just as crazy.
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