Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA carried out a nationwide crackdown on synthetic drugs early Wednesday, netting 150 arrests and at least $20 million in cash and assets, Time reports. This is the second phase of an operation dubbed “Project Synergy,” which began in December 2012 and went after products marketed as “spice,” “bath salts,” and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bath salts, a synthetic stimulant blamed for the deaths and panic attacks of users nationwide, appeared to become a craze in Syracuse before spreading elsewhere, the Syracuse Post-Standard reports. A former candidate of the Syracuse Common Council received a shipment of the drug, which he called “molly,” a name for the pure…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA has launched what it calls its “largest ever” crackdown on synthetic drugs, arresting more than 150 people in 49 cities and five countries, the U.S. News & World Report writes. The bust is good news for authorities who have seen the devastating impact of designer synthetic drugs, which often are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — While states are banning dangerous bath salts from store shelves, some dealers are making their own with a toxic combination of acetone, butane and caffeine anhydrous, Mlive.com reports. Most recently, 11 members of the DEA were asked for help after local authorities who found the substances, along with large amounts…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 41-year-old man charged Wednesday with holding a hostage at knifepoint in a Salt Lake City office building that houses the FBI wanted to speak with the bureau’s forensic psychiatrist, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Robert Joseph Hibbard was upset about his ex-wife’s death and what he considered to be a botched…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Commonly abused bath salts act like cocaine in the brain, U.S. researchers have found, UPI reports. Mephedrone, which is in so-called bath salts, activate reward centers of the brain, leading to addiction, said Dr. C.J. Malanga, an associate professor of neurology, pediatrics and psychology at the University of North Carolina School of…
