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BATH SALTS
         
         
         
         
 
 
What are bath salts?

Bath salts (also called synthetic cathinone) take their name from their powder form. White or brown powder looks like you put salt in the bath water (it is important not to confuse these two very different products).

 
 
Consumption form: 
As powder, bath salts can be consumed in different ways:
  Becomes caught up in the nose (snorted).
  Rolled in a cigarette paper and swallowed.
  Dissolved in a liquid and swallowed.
  Dissolved in a liquid ans injected into the veins.
 
 

What are the effects?

Category: Stimulant and hallucinogenic
Caractéristics: Bath salts (Bath Salt) is a formidable drug, totally destructive making crazy. They say the bath salts make cannibal.
Bath salts are extremely dangerous compounds worst synthetic drugs: métanphétamines, euphoric highly addictive and MDPV.

Short-term effects:
The use of "bath salts" can lead to mental and physical effects in the short term.

Mental effects:
The "bath salts" affect certain brain chemicals such as dopamine and norepinephrine.
  Hallucinations, paranoia.
  Sense of well-being (euphoria) and excitement.
  Anxiety, panic attacks.
  Confusion.
  Agitation.
 
Physical effects:
Bath salts affect the heart and lungs, so users can experience:
  Cardiac symptoms (increased heart rate, blood pressure and chest pain).
  Decreased blood flow (fingers or toes can become painful, white or blue).
  Shortness of breath.
     
Some users:
  Muscles trembling and contract.
  Convulsions.
     
Long-term effects:
Some long-term effects can occur after consuming bath salts once. In addition, some effects may persist after a person has stopped using the drug.

Mental effects:
In some cases, the use of "bath salts" can lead to suicide or death.
  Depression.
  Psychosis.
  Frequent mood swings.
  Insomnia.
  Incoherent or violent behavior.

Physical effects:
  Kidney problems, kidney failure.
  Injuries to muscles, muscle breakdown.
  Rash or serious skin infections.
 
 
Dependence:
It is not known if the bath salts are addictive, although the first results of the research suggest that is the case.
 
 
Legislation :
Bath salts are illegal products.

 

 
     



 
 
 
 
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