Bath Salts
Bath Salts
Nothing to Relax About
PSY 101-06 Ann Blumer
Linisa E Beal
Portfolio #8
Something close to an epidemic is happening in real communities across the state of Maine and Bangor is being labeled as "ground zero". A drug called chemically MDPV or methylenedioxypyrovalerone has surfaced in this area. Its street name goes by a myriad of different names mainly bath salts. We've heard it called Monkey Dust, Bliss, and Ivory Wave. Call it what you will, it is not the same bath salts you use in your tub. It is a cocaine like powder that in fact it is three times more powerful than cocaine and it's being sold in stores. There are many ways to get the drug into your system, the most popular seems to be to put some on a square piece of aluminum foil, heat it up and inhale the smoke. There are many ways to use it, injecting, snorting, swallowing or even rectally, no one way seems to give a “better” high than any other. Until very recently all the ingredients were legal to buy either online or at any convenience store. Marketed as "bath salts" the FDA had no jurisdiction over the drug because it is listed as either plant food or labeled "not for human consumption". Imagine...ingesting plant food!
To digress a bit, we belong to an outreach ministry we call the Mansion. We met Sunday evenings in downtown Bangor. We have a time of fellowship with a Bible lesson, sing songs, and feed approximately 75 of Bangor's "other wise forgotten " of society. Because of the diversity of their lives, our ministry attended the forum at Husson College in October concerning the bath salt usage in our area. We listened to the "experts" explain how they are dealing with it from a law enforcement and medical standpoint. Law enforcement officers are saying how the calls are tying up the officers and medical support teams from going to other calls. It causes many to push the limits of their own metal capacity
Nothing to Relax About
PSY 101-06 Ann Blumer
Linisa E Beal
Portfolio #8
Something close to an epidemic is happening in real communities across the state of Maine and Bangor is being labeled as "ground zero". A drug called chemically MDPV or methylenedioxypyrovalerone has surfaced in this area. Its street name goes by a myriad of different names mainly bath salts. We've heard it called Monkey Dust, Bliss, and Ivory Wave. Call it what you will, it is not the same bath salts you use in your tub. It is a cocaine like powder that in fact it is three times more powerful than cocaine and it's being sold in stores. There are many ways to get the drug into your system, the most popular seems to be to put some on a square piece of aluminum foil, heat it up and inhale the smoke. There are many ways to use it, injecting, snorting, swallowing or even rectally, no one way seems to give a “better” high than any other. Until very recently all the ingredients were legal to buy either online or at any convenience store. Marketed as "bath salts" the FDA had no jurisdiction over the drug because it is listed as either plant food or labeled "not for human consumption". Imagine...ingesting plant food!
To digress a bit, we belong to an outreach ministry we call the Mansion. We met Sunday evenings in downtown Bangor. We have a time of fellowship with a Bible lesson, sing songs, and feed approximately 75 of Bangor's "other wise forgotten " of society. Because of the diversity of their lives, our ministry attended the forum at Husson College in October concerning the bath salt usage in our area. We listened to the "experts" explain how they are dealing with it from a law enforcement and medical standpoint. Law enforcement officers are saying how the calls are tying up the officers and medical support teams from going to other calls. It causes many to push the limits of their own metal capacity