“Bath salts” is a term for a group of illegal drugs known as synthetic cathinones. Some people take them to experience euphoria. They can cause severe psychological and neurological problems. While ...

Cathinones derived from the khat plant (Catha edulis) have been used recreationally for centuries. Chewing the leaves and twigs of the plant produces amphetamine-like euphoric effects. In 2006, there ...

In October 2011 the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Forensic Science Foundation (FSF) funded a capstone project proposal in the Master of Forensic Science Program at Sam Houston State ...

The Miami Valley Bulk Smuggling Task Force seized over 64 grams of a drug mixture of fenanyl and eutylone, according to a media release. Eutylone, part of a drug class known as “bath salts”, is highly ...

A new state law went into effect today banning the sale, use and possession of synthetic recreational drugs marketed as bath salts and K2 or spice in Ohio. A crackdown is more than necessary, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two drugs that produce a "meth-like" high and are being sold under the guise of "bath salts" would be banned as federally controlled substances under a bill unveiled on Sunday by ...

These are examples of fake "bath salts," displayed by Senate Drug Policy Committee chairman Sid Albritton, R-Picayune, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. The salts contain toxic ...

A Miami man pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug-trafficking charges after federal authorities said he imported drugs often referred to as "bath salts" or "flakka" from China into the U.S. to be ...

MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin connected three more deaths to “bath salts” on Thursday during a Statehouse conference to educate local law enforcement officers from around the state about the drugs.

When Huey Lewis sang “I Want a New Drug” back in 1984, he may have simply been echoing the American penchant for “bigger, better, faster, more.” After all, that was the decade that many drug users ...