Bath salt drugs are derived from cathinone, the principle active ingredient of a leaf called khat. The plant is common throughout northeast Africa and the Arabian peninsula, where it is chewed for ...

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 ...

The Lowdown on "Bath Salts": The new designer drug known as "Bath Salts" triggers hallucinations that may lead to extreme violence, such as the cannibalism of the "Miami Zombie" episode.

Use of the drug may be falling, however. The American Assn. of Poison Control Centers reported 6,136 calls related to bath salts in 2011, up from 304 the year before. By the end of 2012, such ...

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.

"Bath salts won't turn you into a zombie or a face-eating monster," Palamar says. But, that said, "you don't want to take them" because their effects are not well-known, and new unexamined ...

Secret labs across the globe have been producing cathinone concoctions, otherwise known as drugs derived from bath salts. Cathinone’s cause psychoactive and hallucinogenic effects similar to ...

“Cathinone itself is the primary psychoactive substance in the khat plant,” explains Dr. Brenda Gannon, Laboratory Director at Steep Hill Arkansas and published researcher of contemporary bath salts. ...

Bath salts are stimulants from the synthetic cathinone class of drugs and are central nervous stimulants designed to mimic effects similar to those produced by cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy ...

According to court records, Angela Marie Klinkhamer and her coconspirators engaged in a lengthy conspiracy to distribute drugs, including bath salts (alpha-PHP or synthetic cathinone).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have seized 70 pounds of a new version of synthetic stimulant commonly known as bath salts. Shipped from China, the drug was found in two boxes sent to ...

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 ...