Emergency Academics

EM Pearls: Bath Salts

Not all bath salts are about rest and relaxation. One of the newer kids on the block in the illicit drug market are so called “bath salts” – the fancy name being Mephedrone and MDPV. Both are β-ketophenethylamine derivatives of cathinone, a compound from the plant Catha edulis. Common street names for Mephedrone are plant [...]