These bath salts have nothing to do with bathing. Instead, they're new designer drugs with a name that sounds deceptively harmless. This new synthetic stimulant, which until recently had been marketed as a legal novelty item in convenience stores, in "head shops" (where drug paraphernalia and legal products that produce a "high" are sold) and on the Internet, may be labeled bath salts, plant food, or insect repel-lant.1 They include a prominent warning: "not for human consumption. In stark contrast to its labeling, this easily obtained alternative to ecstasy, cocaine, and amphetamines is actually intended for human consumption.
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