What Are Bath Salts?
Chemicals sold as “bath salts” are not the bath salts used in a tub, but toxic drugs with unpredictable effects.
Many of the substances in these drugs have been banned in the US due to their harmful effects. Dealers use the term bath salts and other names to bypass the law. They are also falsely advertised as “plant food,” “jewelry cleaner” and “phone screen cleaner” and labeled “not for human consumption” to avoid arrest by law enforcement.
The term bath salts does not refer to a single drug, but rather a group of similar substances. These are chemically made versions of a type of drug found in the Khat plant, an evergreen shrub from East Africa and southern Arabia. Just as Spice and K2 are known as synthetic marijuana, bath salts are referred to as synthetic stimulants. They can also cause hallucinations similar to those produced by LSD.
Bath salts often contain a varied mix of chemicals, so even if the packaging looks the same, there is no way to know the actual contents. It can appear white, off-white, yellow or brown and is usually sold in powdered form in small plastic or foil packages. It may also come in capsules, tablets or in liquid form in small jars. Users have reported snorting or injecting it, mixing it with food or drink, “bombing” it (swallowing it wrapped in cigarette paper), taking it rectally, inhaling it using a vaporizer or smoking it.
Bath Salts Street Names
- Arctic Blast
- Aura
- Avalanche
- Bliss
- Blizzard
- Bloom
- Blue Silk
- Bolivian Bath
- Cloud 9
- Cotton Cloud
- Drone
- Dynamite or Dynamite Plus
- Euphoria
- Glow Stick
- Hurricane Charlie
- Ivory Snow
- Ivory Wave or Ivory Wave Ultra
- Lunar Wave
- Mexxy
- Mind Charge or Mino Charge
- Monkey Dust
- Mystic
- Natural Energy Powder
- Ocean Snow
- Purple Wave
- Quicksilver
- Recharge
- Red Dawn
- Red Dove
- Rock On
- Rocky Mountain High
- Route 69
- Sandman Party Powder
- Scarface
- Sextasy
- Shock Wave
- Snow Day
- Snow Leopard
- Speed Freak Miracle
- Stardust
- Super Coke
- Tranquility
- UP Energizing or UP Supercharged
- Vanilla Sky
- White Burn
- White China
- White Dove
- White Lightning
- White Rush
- White Sands
- Wicked X
- Zoom
- Manufacturers of bath salts create many names for their products to attract as many customers as possible. Some of these names include:
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