Snorting or injecting is the most harmful. Although the law also bans chemically similar versions of some of these drugs, manufacturers have responded by making new drugs different enough from the banned substances to get around the law. To protect the public, the government is constantly monitoring newer formulas. But they can also cause paranoia, nervousness, and hallucinations seeing or hearing things that are not real. Researchers do know that bath salts are chemically similar to amphetamines, cocaine, and MDMA.
These drugs change the way the brain works by changing the way nerve cells communicate. Nerve cells, called neurons, send messages to each other by releasing chemicals called neurotransmitters. Drugs affect this signaling process. Dopamine is the main neurotransmitter that relates to the brain's reward system — the system that tells us we feel good. Circuits in the reward system use dopamine to teach the brain to repeat actions we find pleasurable.
Drugs take control of this system, releasing large amounts of dopamine — first in response to the drug but later mainly in response to other cues associated with the drug, like when you see people you use drugs with, or plases where you use drugs.
The result is an intensive motivation to seek the drug. These drugs raise levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin.
Learn more about how the brain works and what happens when a person uses drugs. And, check out how the brain responds to natural rewards and to drugs. These reports show people who use bath salts have needed help for heart problems such as racing heart, high blood pressure, and chest pains and symptoms like paranoia, hallucinations, and panic attacks.
They might also have dehydration, breakdown of muscle tissue attached to bones, and kidney failure. More in The Cannabis Issue 3 of 5. Edit Close. Toggle navigation Menu. Close 1 of Photo: Eric England. Cover Story. The Cannabis Issue High Crimes. Steven Hale. The Cannabis Issue Getting in the Weeds.
Patrick Rodgers. Erica Ciccarone. Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. Manage followed notifications. Close Followed notifications. Please log in to use this feature Log In. Don't have an account? Sign Up Today. In this Series. The sweet aroma is coming not from the grounds around the chapel, but from inside the small, A-framed building, where since 9 a. Their work is for Thistle Farms, the recently started and newest program of Magdalene, which was founded in by Becca Stevens, a community activist and the Episcopal chaplain of St.
Magdalene provides recovering street prostitutes with long-term secure housing, treatment for their drug and alcohol addictions, counseling, life skills, job training, and continued support as they regain their lives and reenter the legal world. Magdalene currently operates three residences to house convicted prostitutes as they work toward recovery see Scene cover story, Dec. Stevens says that Thistle Farms is a natural next step in the Magdalene story.
The vision of Thistle Farms is that the participants make and offer a healing product, and then the people who buy that product offer healing by supporting the program through their purchases. Though Thistle Farms has been an idea that Stevens has kicked around with Magdalene supporters for more than five years, the cottage industry actually was launched in January, thanks to seed money received through grants and to the new Thistle Farms program director, Sarah Scarborough.
Scarborough, a Nashville native and graduate of Trinity College in Connecticut, was a conservationist in the Yellowstone area in Bozeman, Mont. A high school friend, Magdalene board member Mary Britton Cummings, told her about the opportunity to build Thistle Farms.
With Thistle Farms, I can do the things I love while making a meaningful contribution. Stevens and volunteer Mary Jane Smith conceived the name. The thistle, a tiny purple wildflower with a protective armor of spikes, Stevens says, is the only flower that grows along the gritty roads where Nashville prostitutes ply their trade.
The idea of a farm was appealing for its association to growing and nature. Christine Wideman, a Magdalene graduate, remembers the day. I had never done anything like that before.
It was such a wonderful feeling. Three of the four products carry biblical names: Salts of Babylon bath salts , Balm of Gilead soothing salves , and Flame of Penuel candles in metal tins.
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