The dangers of bath salts!

[Momonga]

Heh heh! You know you're getting old when...

I am so out of the loop. So I saw the video stills and headline from the Navy's campaign against bath salts (why on earth should the Navy have an issue with lovely bath salts?), and I thought, "goodness, look at his skin! How does that happen? Did he soak too long?"

I suppose everyone else but me has known for years that "bath salts" are a slang term for some synthetic drug.

Don't watch the video. It's dreadful. But you can read about the campaign here, and see the poster (and laugh at me for my first reaction):

http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/20...mpaign-to-deter-bath-salts-designer-drug-use/

Good to know info! I don't know how easy it is to get confused, but these have been sold on the cashier's counter in gas stations, and apparently they are still all over the Internet, since many variants still can slip through the legal cracks. Some of the packaging looks like a day at the spa (but ironically, it has a "potato-tuber-like odor" - not a best seller among FOs, I'm thinking). This presentation has some good info about ingredients, marketing, and risks:

http://www.med.navy.mil/SiteCollectionDocuments/SPICE/Bath_Salts.pdf

 

[lizflowers42]

You aren't alone-when that FL news story hit about the guy high on bath salts I was confused as all get out.

 

[Ruthie]

Well, as a public school teacher I guess I keep informed best I can. But of course that is why the slang names are used- to confound the general public. So your original reaction is a natural one.

 

[Maythorn]

I wouldn't have known either. I'm from way back and I don't get half the upt to the minute slang and abbreviations out there.

 

[Lolly58]

I thought the same thing when I first heard it too