Incidents involving the drug bath salts

Incidents involving the drug bath salts are events in which users of bath salts have engaged in public acts of violence or other criminal acts. The media has widely mis-reported speculation of bath salts being the cause of incidents have later been shown to have no connection to bath salts.
Incidents
On 11 November 2011, twenty-one-year-old Dickie Sanders, residing in the area of New Orleans, used a brand of bath salts called Cloud 9 and experienced stimulant psychosis and eventually committed suicide with a rifle. Sanders' parents, both physicians, petitioned the government of Louisiana. who had taken a brand of bath salts called Cloud 9, walked into a restaurant and began yelling obscenities at two North Miami police officers. Deleon was arrested and later allegedly banged his head on the prison cell bars, growled and tried to bite the hand off one of the police officers. Police report that after smoking the synthetic drug, Murphy stripped off her clothes in the bathroom and rolled around on the floor, unable to recall her own name.<ref name="CarlaMurphy" /> Murphy assaulted a nurse and a police officer while they tried to control her`.<ref name="CarlaMurphy" /> Murphy was escorted to the Blair County Prison and was charged with a number of offences, including aggravated assault, disorderly conduct, and felony possession of a designer drug.<ref name="CarlaMurphy" />
 
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