Responsible adults are warning kids to stay off Snapchat – both the social network designed for sending dick pics, and the designer drug that will cause you to eat someone’s face in an amphetamine rage.
Northern Territory police say that the small pink pills, stamped with the ghost logo familiar from Snapchat, have been circulating in Darwin. Four men have been hospitalised so far after taking the drug, showing symptoms of “wild aggression and hysteria.”
These particular pills are said to contain “bath salts”, a catch-all term for certain types of drugs containing cathinone, a substance with a stimulant effect that, in layman’s terms, sends people batshit fucking crazy.
Steven Skov, the Territory’s chief medical officer, has warned people to stay well clear, saying that users of the drug are likely to become extremely aggressive, and put themselves in great danger.
So there you have it. If numerous horrifying YouTube videos and accounts of people entering a “zombie”-like state while on bath salts weren’t enough, now you have a doctor’s word for it.
It seems that the pills with the Snapchat logo were manufactured in Darwin, and there are no reports of them spreading elsewhere in Australia, but if taking strange pills with dumb shit stamped on them is your chosen way to unwind, you might want to be extra careful.
via ABC News
Image via Northern Territory Police
