I’m Just Trying To Get Clean Bro’

Hey bro’, what ya doin’

I’m doin’ salts man…bath salts

Woooah, cool man

Yeah man, this stuff is pure bro’

…refreshingly intense with subtle undertones of lavender…

At least that’s how the story goes…

I can only roll my eyes in despair whilst listening to the usual Saturday night conversation in Utopia.

Muttered shadows pervade the lugubrious intermission chamber with a festive rainbow of illicit degustations. Red tablets, green pills, yellow capsules, white poppers, purple hum-dingers and now…pure bath salts.

Well, not exactly pure…

Australians are experimenting with Ivory Wave Bath Salts. Ivory Wave is sold in 500mg packets labelled “for novelty use only” with no dosage instructions. Ivory Wave is supposed to contain “Epsom Salts, Sodium Barcarbonate, Sodium Chloride, minerals, trace elements and naturally occurring amino acids“. However the actual ‘active’ constituent is more likely to be methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) according to tests performed by ninemsn and University of Sydney Chemistry Professor Paul Groundwater

methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)

methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)

MDPV is a stimulant with a multitude of negative side effects including:

  • Physical: Tachycardia, hypertension and profuse sweating
  • Mental: Increased alertness, awareness, arousal, wakefulness, euphoria, anxiety, agitation and the perception of a diminished requirement for food and sleep.

According to an anonymous, but fresh smelling Ivory Wave user from Newcastle

  • Ivory Wave provides profound stimulation and empathy, as well as mild, yet blissful, euphoria. However, the initial “magic” diminished rapidly, leaving the user strongly compelled to snort again.
  • The user was left with a a painful hangover, emotional fragility, diminished cognitive ability, muscular pain and a sore jaw and loss of appetite

Australian drug users are ordering Ivory Wave through research chemical websites based in Europe, which disguise the drug’s true identity by selling it as a “soothing bath salt”. But beware, Ivory Wave is most probably illegal in Australia under the analogue drug laws due to its structural similarities to pyrovalerone and MDMA.

I guess if you were really looking for an imported ‘bath salt’ you would probably not be on a site called ‘Zonged‘ and the instructions would be less open to misinterpretation

A very stimulating powder. Some say it enhances mood and gives you lots of energy.

Please note: Only a very small amount is required. Probably much less than you think.

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About Mike Cadogan

Emergency physician with a passion for medical informatics and medical education. Co-founder of HealthEngine, iMeducate, and the GMEP. He writes more eclectically on the web as @sandnsurf | + Mike Cadogan | Contact

Comments

  1. Francesca says:

    This is ace! There’s a product here which I’ve been telling people about last 10 years which contains “stuff” you can bottom out from. Soothing “crack” bath!

  2. We had three teenage girls admitted to psyche this weekend thanks to this ‘luxurious’ drug.

    • sandnsurf says:

      It is truly an awful drug
      Once again it amazes me the depths that people will stoop to in the preparation of illicit analogues to create such hideous mind altering states
      Hope the girls went OK
      Mike

  3. SeaSpray says:

    LOL! I actually believed you were talking about *bath salts* and was amused a man was going on about the lavender and reminded me of Frazier and Niles and their luxury baths. :)

    Sounds like an insidious drug that will suck the life out of a person.

    • sandnsurf says:

      Unfortunately not as exotic as you would think!
      Certainly does suck the life out of you
      No idea what they will think up next…will keep you posted!
      Mike

      • Bryan says:

        I did it for awhile…. got caught one day and I about went crazy… my school kicked me out and I bottomed out… I still get cravings and it sucks…. I haven’t been on it over a month and like I said I still call my shop and almost bought some yesterday… pls pray for me… It makes you go crazy I’ve about lost all my ability to hold an inteligent conversation and I’m scared I”ll never recover… It keeps you scattered even after you quit DONT DO IT TRUST AN ABUSER WHEN THEY TELL YOU THAT THEY DO KNOW FIRSTHAND!!!

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