Timonium Drug Expert Explains Danger of 'Bath Salts'

The St. Joseph Medical Center's Mike Gimbel was the Baltimore County drug czar for 25 years.

News reports in recent weeks have focused on violent crimes reportedly being committed by people high on a synthetic drug under the guise of bath salts. As recently as this week, there were reports that indicated bath salts were behind the "deadly meltdown" of a New York woman, according to New York Daily News. The most well known case was, of course, the incident in Florida where a man was found naked, chewing on a homeless man’s face along a major roadway. “This stuff is spreading,” Mike Gimbel, Baltimore County’s former drug czar of 25 years, said. Gimbel, a Timonium resident, said the illegal drug market has been flooded in recent years with these manmade, synthetic drug substitutes, which are sold as legal, household products. “They …

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