Friday, September 23, 2011

Duluth’s synthetic drug problem


A successful businessman in Duluth, Minnesota, Jim Carlson expects to make six million dollars in profit this year as his “synthetic drug” sales are rapidly boosting despite hard economic times.

Incense, bath salts and legal stimulants are just samples of legal drugs he sells to the public, all legally. His seemingly innocent business may just be the reason why more and more people are finding themselves in emergency rooms. Furthermore, many experience dangerous side effects such as hallucinations and self-inflicted wounds, all resulting from snorting or injecting these legal synthetic drugs which are widely available at a fraction of the cost of other illegal substances such as heroin, meth and marijuana.

An experienced emergency medicine physician at St. Luke’s hospital, Dr. Steven Hansen admits there has been a significant increase said there has been an increase in emergency room admissions due to the use of these synthetic, “designer drugs”. He and his staff typically see between two and ten victims a week and expect these numbers to climb rapidly as more and more vendors begin carrying the drugs in order to increase profits. 

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