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.

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government intends to make methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a key ingredient in the street drug known as "bath salts," illegal. The white powder drug that contains MDPV and other ...

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 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 ...

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 ...