Military MedicineJuly 2013Jared Lenz, Jaime Brown, Seth Flagg et al.
Among recreational drug users, there is a new wave of designer drugs being marketed as "bath salts" and "plant food," which mimic the effects of cocaine/amphetamines and ecstasy (MDMA [3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methamphetamine]). Presented is the case of a patient who snorted a bath salt called Cristalius. A 22-year-old male Soldier was seen in an emergency department for syncope, agitation,...
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) is a hallucinogenic drug that received considerable attention in the 1960's and early 1970's. It produced a wide variety of psychological phenomena, including a variety of perceptual disturbances which would manifest among some users long after the drug had left the system. These phenomena were commonly referred to as "flashbacks" and may have been largely...