Street drugs called "bath salts" were linked to nearly 23,000 emergency department visits in the United States in 2011, a new report says. Bath salts are amphetamine-like stimulants that have become ...

CATSKILL — New York State Commissioner of Health Nirav R. Shah has issued an order prohibiting the sale and distribution of over-the-counter products falsely advertised as bath salts. The products ...

These are examples of fake "bath salts," displayed by Senate Drug Policy Committee chairman Sid Albritton, R-Picayune, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. The salts contain toxic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Friday issued a temporary ban on chemicals used in a new type of street drug known as "bath salts" that is increasingly popular among teens. The Drug ...

There’s good news today for anyone who doesn’t want their face chewed off by some bath-salt fueled cannibal: bath salts are now officially illegal in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo just announced ...

The alphabet soup of chemicals that is the world of designer drugs — bath salts, flakka and deadly fentanyl — has created a new subculture of youth where anything goes. These bath salts are not the ...

BARRE -- Barre police and emergency crews were caught off guard early this summer when the dangerous synthetic drug called bath salts hit the city. Calls came in almost daily in June for illnesses and ...

The state health department plans to ban the sale of synthetic drugs known as “bath salts” following an investigation that revealed the potentially lethal substances can spur cardiac and circulatory ...

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that the New York State Department of Health has issued new regulations to crack down on bath-salt abuse, and the use of other synthetic drugs — which is ...

When Huey Lewis sang “I Want a New Drug” back in 1984, he may have simply been echoing the American penchant for “bigger, better, faster, more.” After all, that was the decade that many drug users ...