Bath salts, a new era of designer stimulants
July 20, 2011
I have a post up over at Sb “News on substituted cathinone stimulants, aka “bath salts”“ that discusses a Sunday New York Times piece on “bath salts”.
The short version is:
and also this.
[update: the post is now at https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/news_on_substituted_cathinone/]
DrugMonkey 
July 20, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Which blog is the real, best blog? (Other than Fafblog)
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August 6, 2011 at 1:23 am
Both blogs are awesome. Equally. Just like the five kids you have and tell them you love them all equally.
Readers must click on the Doonesbury link. I can’t believe it was 1985 and I can’t believe how close the final panel is to today’s situation. Pure genius Google-fu, my good man.
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August 6, 2011 at 7:56 am
Past is prologue, eh Abel?
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August 6, 2011 at 7:57 am
I mean “David”.
…damn real names, mutter, mutter, grr, lawn, mutter
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October 27, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Where can I read these things? Gaaa
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January 14, 2012 at 5:12 am
[…] Bath salts are the colloquial name for a class of products marketed similarly to synthetic marijuana but very different in chemical composition. While also smoked and snorted, bath salts contain one or more stimulant drugs called synthetic cathinones – specifically mephedrone (or 4-methylmethcathinone, 4-MMC) or MDPV (or methylenedioxypyrovalerone). My neuroscience researcher and blogger colleague DrugMonkey is an authority on these compounds and has written extensively at his blogs. This category search is a good place to start but this single post and its links are best. […]
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April 6, 2012 at 9:18 am
The SB post has been transferred to https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/news_on_substituted_cathinone/
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April 21, 2012 at 3:34 pm
BATH SALT IS AS WHACK AS THIS WEBSITE
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