Mother Has Baby, Allegedly Smokes Bath Salts, Punches Nurse, Tries To Bite

[jnelsoninjax]

A Pennsylvania mom who had just given birth is accused of smoking synthetic "bath salts" in the hospital and going on a violent rampage, assaulting a nurse and a police officer.

Carla Murphy, 31, of Altoona, was recovering in the hospital on June 17 after delivering her baby two days earlier, The Altoona Mirror reported. Police say that Murphy smoked the synthetic drug, prompting her to strip off her clothes and go wild in the bathroom.

Murphy rolled around on the shower floor, confused and unable to state her own name. Cops arrived to calm her, and found in her purse a dismantled black pen with powder inside that the mother later called "Disco" -- a street name for bath salts -- the paper reported.

As Murphy flailed about, a nurse administered the anti-psychotic drug Haldol. Murphy responded by punching a nurse in the face, the New York Daily News reported.

She reportedly remained aggressive, cursing and trying to escape the hospital room. An officer restrained her, but Murphy managed to stand up, hit and attempt to bite a cop. Police then handcuffed and arrested Murphy, who also kicked a nurse in the chest on her way out of the room.

Authorities escorted Murphy to the Blair County Prison and charged her with aggravated assault, simple assault, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, felony possession of a designer drug and harassment. A subsequent search of her home revealed more bath salts, aluminum foil, and a broken glass bottle with brown residue on it, cops told the Daily News.

Police arrested her boyfriend, Michael Stewart, on drug paraphernalia charges after a search of his home.

Bath salts, a synthetic cocaine-like substance found in smoke shops and gas stations, can lead to paranoia and hallucinations. It is legal in many states -- though not for smoking -- and is connected to a few, though not all, recent cannibalistic attacks.

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[Growled Member]

What great parents for that little one. I wonder what he will grow up to be.

[DocM]

Hopefully, an adoptee.

[jnelsoninjax]

Doc, are you seeing an increase in cases involving these 'bath salts'? It seems like more and more articles are about them...

[DocM]

I'm retired, but I hear the horror stories. The answers are that there's both more cases and increased reporting by the media, though 98+% of the drug-induced psychosis cases still never make the front page. I've seen people on drugs from weed and acid to PCP and this stuff seems more like PCP. They totally lose it, becoming a risk to themselves and others, and there's no predicting if it'll be the first dose or the hundredth.

[Azusa]

ok one question about "bath salts" is that just the name or is it the stuff you put in your bath?

[Kondrath]

ok one question about "bath salts" is that just the name or is it the stuff you put in your bath?

I think it's literally bath salts, the smelly relaxing things you put in the bath.

[jnelsoninjax]

Typically 'Bath Salts' are Mephedrone + MPVD. They are so labeled to avoid the FDA, rather than the DEA.

[psionicinversion]

i was thinking that, although the harmful stuff must get dissipated in the water otherwise putting some radox aromatherapy in the bath would make everyone in the house rage and eat each other

[DocM]

No, this is NOT real bath salts. It is a street name for the designer drug jnelsoninjax posted; 4-MMC (mephedrone) + MPVD (methylenedioxypyrovalerone.)

[Colin McGregor]

gross. a chick that just gave birth naked with her droopy taco hangin out tryin to eat people. Im going to bed cause i wont be able to eat tonight

[Dinggus]

After getting back from Iraq in 2009, there was a soldier in my unit who use to do ecstasy before joining. He got addicted to bath salts and that was how our brigade ended up knowing about it. He use to be kind of big from working out and got so skinny that he looked like he had cancer or something. I use to call him Jack Sparrow because he would walk around and move like him. He eventually got help through ASAP and is clean now, he said the only reason he kept doing it was because the coming down part was worse than any drug he's ever tried and that.

[necroxd]

Houston, Texas DEA here is now confiscating all synthetic drugs from the gas stations. Walk in grab it all and take it. No arrests since its not illegal to sell or something. We have had once incident. Not sure what drug it was though.

[moloko]

so they sell this in gas stations and 7-11. so what is its purpose when selling it?

I hope the baby came out normal with her being a druggie.

[necroxd]

I've seen them listed as plant growers, and literal bath salts. Also no not 7-11 More like those dinky gas stations that aren't franchised. Mom and pop style but ghetto.

[neufuse Veteran]

Houston, Texas DEA here is now confiscating all synthetic drugs from the gas stations. Walk in grab it all and take it. No arrests since its not illegal to sell or something. We have had once incident. Not sure what drug it was though.

never got how they could confiscate something that wasn't illegal to posess...

[necroxd]

The chemicals used to make it are illegal and so are some synthetic drugs. So they do raids and confiscate all of the stuff since cush is illegal.

[Titoist]

[Growled Member]

never got how they could confiscate something that wasn't illegal to posess...

The government can do just about anything they waqnt, these days.

[Colin McGregor]

[Buttus]

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