This is part four of an article about the new addiction people are suffering from to a new line of designer drugs. These drugs can be bought legally in different locations because they are labeled as “bath salts” or “plant food”. There are also labels on the products that state that they are not for human consumption. But people using them know that they are really drugs and they use them as such. Addiction to these designer drugs can be very serious and can result in severe psychosis as well as other physical injuries. The long term effects of these drugs are not known yet because they are so new to the market. In the rest of this article we will be discussing a man we are calling Tommy who became addicted to these “bath salts.” Tommy has a history of addiction and we will be discussing that along with how he found Narconon Rehab and fought his addiction and how he is doing today.

Tommy New Friends Used Drugs

Once Tommy got his new job at the factory, he began to hang out with some of the other people who worked there. They really liked to party and pretty soon Tommy was partying with them. He did not start drinking again, he knew he could not do that, but he would do any other kind of drug that would come his way. Most of the time he would keep it at marijuana, but sometimes his friends would have other harder drugs that Tommy would do as well.

After working at the factory for a while, Tommy started dating one of the girls that he partied with. She was around thirty one or two, ten years Tommy’s junior. She had a thyroid disorder that she suffered from that made her really tired and she liked to use different stimulants to give her energy.

She and Tommy would get high together all the time. Most of the time they just used marijuana, but as stated before, when they could get other stuff they would. Tommy and she got along really well and before long they decided to move in together.

Tommy’s new girl friend moved into his trailer. They decided that she would keep her place as well and the two went back and forth between the two houses. Tommy really started to fall for his new girl friend. The next time he went home to visit his children and friends, he brought his new girl friend with him. Some of his friends said that when he came home he looked like a totally different person. It was said that he smoked pot all hours of the day and he was always thinking of where he was going to get more. They said that he and his new girlfriend seemed happy together, but they also said that they seemed addicted to marijuana.

Marijuana Addiction to Bath Salt Addiction

After living together for about a year, Tommy’s girlfriend brought home a new drug. She said that it was a lot like cocaine but lasted a lot longer. She said that the other really good thing about this drug was that it was legal. She said that it was labeled as plant food or bath salts at head shops and was not too expensive.

She gave some to Tommy and he did it. They both used it and got high for 24 hours. Then they went to sleep.

The next weekend they did it again. They had a really good time and instead of stopping at once, they continued to use it all weekend. Tommy stayed up for four days. Because of his girlfriend’s thyroid condition, she was able to go to sleep after being awake for twenty-four hours. Tommy, however, was not able to fall asleep. He was stayed awake and went on Face Book for days until he had to go back to work. While at work he used it again because he started to feel fatigued and wanted wake back up.

After a few days Tommy finally was able to go to bed and fall asleep. The only problem was that following weekend the couple ended up doing the same thing all over again. This time when they were using, Tommy began to notice that his girlfriend was using the stuff every ten minutes. He started to resent the fact that she might be doing more than he was. Every time she would use the drug, Tommy decided that he would use it to. He did not want her to get more than him. He had bought the stuff that time and it would just not be right for someone else to get to use more of the drugs that he paid for than he did. This did not turn out well for Tommy, however. Every time he used the drug, he was setting himself up to not be able to sleep for the next two days. His girlfriend’s body did not react to the drug the way most other people’s did. She had a thyroid condition that made it possible for her to sleep on any drug she used, no matter how powerful a stimulant it was. Tommy’s body was not set up like hers and the drug could keep him up for days and days at a time.

Bath Salt Addiction Takes Over Florida

After a while it seemed to Tommy that everyone he knew around where he lived was using the “bath salts”. Most of his friends at the factory were using them and most of the people in the trailer park where he lived were using them as well. Addiction to this stuff was really starting to take over the area where he lived.

The authorities in Florida also noticed that bath salts were starting to become overwhelmingly popular as well. After about a month of Tommy using the stuff, the main ingredient used to make people high was outlawed and the brand that he used was no longer available for sale in the state of Florida. Continued in part five

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