MDPV and mephedrone, the most common bath salts, originated as synthetic versions of a natural ingredient found in Khat (Catha edulis), a hallucinogenic plant found in eastern Africa. Cathinone ...

MDPV (3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone) and other "bath salts" drugs are actually derived from cathinone, the principal active ingredient in khat, a leaf chewed for its stimulant effects throughout ...

Bath salts are drugs similar to methamphetamines that are snorted, taken orally or injected. They contain synthetic chemicals similar to cathinone, a stimulant found naturally in the khat plant ...

Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), loosely agreed upon as the active ingredient in many bath salts, is under an emergency DEA federal ban, along with other, similar drugs in the cathinone family.

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have published one of the first laboratory studies of MDPV, an emerging recreational drug that has been sold as "bath salts." The TSRI ...

Bath salts, the synthetic drug made infamous by incidents of psychotic “zombie” attacks, is more potent and potentially addictive than methamphetamine, a study has found. Rats pressed a lever ...

Bath salts contain amphetamine-type stimulants including MDPV, which is currently not regulated under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. It is considered a synthetic cathinone, chemically ...

including "bath salts," synthetic drugs that are chemically similar to a stimulant called cathinone. In the study, published in February in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, researchers ...

Aarde, a TSRI research assistant who was first author of the study. Bath salt drugs are derived from cathinone, the principle active ingredient of a leaf called khat. The plant is common ...

Reports to poison-control centers involving bath salts increased from 303 in 2010 — when the drugs first surfaced — to 4,720 by August 31, 2011, according to the American Associations of ...