WASHINGTON (AP) — People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that lawmakers can’t seem to keep up. Over the past two years, the U.S. has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs made ...

Authorities in several US states are considering banning the sale of "bath salts," which are apparently being snorted, smoked and injected for their intense hallucinatory effects. While this might ...

It’s good to see we’re not the only ones who have been confusing bath salts with bath salts. Indeed, as the designer drug — “like PCP on crack,” “it felt so evil,” etc… — makes its way to our northern ...

Inmate says high is similar to that of cocaine. Police say there is nothing they can do. Bath salts are the most recent concern among law enforcement officers in the area. Submitted Photo KINGSTON – A ...

News outlets went into a frenzy this week over the story of a Florida man who stripped and ate another man’s face in broad daylight. His freaky behavior reportedly was caused by a new drug called ...

In October 2011 the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Forensic Science Foundation (FSF) funded a capstone project proposal in the Master of Forensic Science Program at Sam Houston State ...

MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin connected three more deaths to “bath salts” on Thursday during a Statehouse conference to educate local law enforcement officers from around the state about the drugs.

As states race to outlaw synthetic drugs sold as “bath salts” or “fake marijuana,” there would seem to be little downside to banning these untested and possibly dangerous chemicals. But prohibiting ...

MONTPELIER — In an attempt to get out in front of a “new drug craze,” Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday announced an executive order criminalizing the possession of a synthetic stimulant already banned ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two drugs that produce a "meth-like" high and are being sold under the guise of "bath salts" would be banned as federally controlled substances under a bill unveiled on Sunday by ...

Bath salts — sort of, anyway— have become such a drug craze that several states are considering imposing a ban. Bath salts — which people smoke, snort and even shoot up — are apparently so powerful ...