Heard of bath salts? New video warns of the nightmarish effects of its use (WATCH)

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A new PSA released by the Navy warns sailors against taking bath salts. Above, the drugged-up sailor hallucinates that his roommate is a demon.

 

The U.S. Navy has released a disturbing new PSA to discourage sailors from taking the designer drug known as bath salts, which has reportedly become a scourge among some servicemen.

In the video, a young sailor snorts a thick white line of the drug, vomits and then suffers demonic hallucinations.

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After attacking his girlfriend on a date, he passes out in his apartment and eventually lands in the emergency room, where he begins to have seizures.

In an interview for the PSA, Lt. George Loeffler, a psychiatry resident at Naval Medical Center San Diego, says bath salts users risk suffering hallucinations, paranoia and other horrific effect for weeks after “jacking up their brain” on the drug.

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In the video, a young sailor snorts a line of bath salts, vomits and then attacks his girlfriend while on a date.

“We don’t have really good treatments for this,” Loeffler says

“(Users) can, in effect, make themselves schizophrenic,” he adds.

According to ABC News, bath salts usage has spiked among sailors in southern California.

Last year, some 90 sailors on two San Diego ships were booted from the service after they were caught using bath salts and other designer drugs, the network reported.

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The sailor eventually ends up in the hospital, where he suffers a seizure. Doctors warn that, in addition to nightmarish visions and paranoia, bath salts can cause organ failure and, in rare cases, even death.

One female sailor told the network she knew six sailors who were kicked out for using the drug, which can be snorted, swallowed, smoked or injected.

Experts say the high can feel like the user has taken cocaine, speed and LSD all at once.

Another sailor, Jason Snow, said the new PSA was a much-needed wake up call.

“It adds some realism to it. This stuff really does happen,” Snow told ABC News.

“They are trying to get to the people before they make the mistake” of taking the drug, he said.

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The Navy rolled out the new program on Dec. 20 to discourage sailors from thinking that bath salts and other designer drugs like ‘spice’ are safe and legal.

In a statement, the Navy said the campaign was to stop sailors from thinking that bath salts and other fad drugs like “spice,” sometimes referred to as synthetic marijuana, were safe and legal ways  of getting a good buzz.

“I cannot emphasize enough to our Sailors and Marines that using synthetic drugs really is just like playing Russian roulette with their health, not to mention their career,” Vice Adm. Matthew L. Nathan, a U.S. Navy surgeon general, said in a San Diego Union Tribune editorial quoted in the statement.

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