Fake cocaine, bath salts and teens: Lethal combination - Fort Lauderdale Parenting Teens | Examiner.com

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Fake cocaine, bath salts and teens: Lethal combination - Fort Lauderdale Parenting Teens | Examiner.com: "Bath salts are being misused as 'fake cocaine' and Florida teens are going to the hospital after using these bath salts.

According to the Florida Sun-Sentinel, 'We're seeing teenagers experiment with this,' said Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, chief of emergency medicine for Broward Health. 'They will do stuff that they wouldn't normally do, like dive from a third-story window into a pool. It's very, very dangerous.'

Users usually snort the powder and experience effects similar to cocaine and crystal meth, Dr. El Sanadi said. But the euphoria often leads to paranoia, chest pains and irregular heart beats.

'They come in confused, disoriented, with high blood pressure,' said El Sanadi, who first noticed the trend in spring 2010. 'I guarantee you most parents don't even suspect their kids might be doing it.'"

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