Woman injects "Bath Salts" and flesh Eating Bacteria

[mgrady3]

Full Story:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/13/145179057/woman-injects-bath-salts-loses-arm-to-flesh-eating-bacteria

Lol - silly media; I thought NPR would be better than this:

Yet that's what happened to an unfortunate young woman who had injected the increasingly popular stimulant drug called "bath salts."

stimulant drug called "bath salts."

.. facepalm

Bath salts is a relatively new problem in the world of recreational drugs.

- should read something more like Some synthetic drugs are creating a problem in the world of recreational drugs

 

[rincewindrocks]

beat me to it, was about to post it

ya, silly, but NPR is STILL mainstream media

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

I really hate how the media doesn't bother to figure out and/or look up the chemical name of the drug in question here.

 

[Biovail]

Bath salts ARE, not bath salts IS. Really, NPR doesn't know how to write articles with proper grammar?

 

[Transcendence]

To be fair, she does mention MDPV further down.

 

[rickolasnice]

Bath salts ARE, not bath salts IS. Really, NPR doesn't know how to write articles with proper grammar?

Maybe she thought a slang name for MDPV is "bath salts"

 

[mgrady3]

regardless its just poor journalism.
I would have expected more from them

 

[Newbierock]

Poor journalism, about a poor human. Who the fuck injects "bath salts" really?

 

[23536]

If anyone is interested, this is the medical case report. I believe the nature of the problem is not the substance injected, but poor injection technique and the lack of hygiene. Consider:

On further questioning, she reported injecting bath salts 2 nights prior to developing symptoms. She also reported the injection was intramuscular because she could not obtain intravascular access.

 

[mgrady3]

well thank you for making me empty my stomach of all its contents...

 

[cj]

The article should read poor injection hygeine and technique leads to complications but that would be too damn reasonable. This should be a shining example of why harm reduction is neccesary instead we get more dare style propaganda.

 

[mgrady3]

^^ this

 

[rangrz]

Why is this news, an non aseptic injection carries a risk bacteria which produce lysogenic toxins. Weather its Insulin, the principal is the same.

Some chemicals do cause massive wet desqumation when injected into some types of tissue. This applies to legit ones too. (Think promethazine as a familiar example)

 

[DexterMeth]

beat me to it, was about to post it

ya, silly, but NPR is STILL mainstream media

Exactly. They're only a slight step above MSNBC these days, and that's obviously fucking pathetic.

 

[Tommyboy]

IMing it was not a good idea. She had to have her arm amputated, which I didn't know until reading further into the links. That's gotta suck, especially if she really didn't do it that much.

 

[Newbierock]

^ I Think it'd still suck just as much, if she was injecting it every day for years.

Nobody wants to lose an arm bro!

 

[slimvictor]

the article should read poor injection hygeine and technique leads to complications but that would be too damn reasonable. This should be a shining example of why harm reduction is neccesary instead we get more dare style propaganda.

qft

well thank you for making me empty my stomach of all its contents...

also qft

 

[phatass]

Thats a steep price to pay for a bad injection, i would not wish that kind of horror on anyone