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 ...

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 ...

Law enforcement in Northeastern Pennsylvania is growing increasingly concerned over a product marketed as “bath salts” that’s being used as an alternative to cocaine. These bath salts are not the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year odd drugs get their fair share of ink, but none in 2012 received more attention than the deceptively named drugs called "Bath Salts". Articles about these drugs and their effects (or ...

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 ...

Remember 2012, when the biggest threats to our liberal democracy included a cool and calculating president’s semi-secret extrajudicial-killing campaign—and bath salts? It was a simpler time. But bath ...

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 ...