NBC’s Dateline goes undercover to investigate the “bath salt” industry

May 24, 2011, 12:48 am

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Dateline NBC’s Hansen Files this weekend went undercover to investigate the distribution and marketing of “bath salts”. The piece was powerful but unfortunately not very scientific — I would have been more satisfied with it if they had analyzed the components of some of the products they described, such as “Bliss”. However, the episode is worth watching.

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To read my Emergency Medicine News column on bath salts, click here.

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