Not Your Mother's Bath Salts

 The media has been covering with increasing frequency a relatively new drug known colloquially as, "bath salts." Despite the name, people who purchase these pouches of powder have no intention of putting them in the tub, but instead use them for the purpose of getting high.

The problem is that unlike other drugs which may just cause a high and damage your health, bath salts can also make people extremely paranoid, violent, and even suicidal. The risks of bath salts have caused the Drug Enforcement Agency to consider it a drug of concern and other states to outright ban it.

The Federal Government may ban bath salts soon also, but until then the best option is to stay far, far, away from this drug that could never even be argued to have any medical benefit or positive uses. Literally, nothing good can come from bath salts.

One positive thing to note is that while the news media has been reporting about the use of bath salts their use is actually not that common compared to a substance such as alcohol.

Therefore, even though bath salts are very dangerous, it is still a relatively small sub-culture despite what the news would make you think. Drugged driving, drinking and driving, and texting while driving are also dangerous and much more prevalent in society, so just as much attention should be paid to those issues as bath salts.