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“Bath Salt” Ingestion Leading to Severe Intoxication Delirium: Two Cases and a Brief Review of the Emergence of Mephedrone Use. Kasick DP et al. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 2012 Jan 5 [Epub ahead of print]
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This paper from the Ohio State Department of Psychiatry is worth reading for vivid descriptions of acute toxic delirium in two patients after they used a product sold as “bath salts”:

Patient A presented after ingesting “bath salts” sold under the label “Arctic Blast”. He was tachycardic (heart rate = 144.min), anxious and paranoid, and suffering visual hallucinations of snakes. For some bizarre reason he was given 2 mg naloxone in the field. At the hospital, he slowly improved after treatment with fluids, lorazep...

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