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Bath Salt Ban Passed After Alton Woman Dies From Overdose Following 50 Hour Binge
    #14363793 - 04/27/11 09:42 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-alton-balth-salt-overdose-woman-42711,0,1281032.story

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Ban Passed After Alton Woman Dies From Fake Cocaine

ALTON, ILLINOIS — A suspected bath salt overdose led to emergency action Wednesday night. Aldermen passed an immediate ban, about 10 hours after Tonia Whitehead, 28, of Alton, died.

In September 2008, Fox 2 interviewed her shortly after the tragic death of her little boy, Ethan Allen, 5.

"Every time I think about her I think about Ethan," said Whitehead's sister, Danielle Johnson, who rushed to her hometown with her husband and children from North Carollina, through severe weather, to try to see her sister. "I know how much I thought about [Ethan] all the time. I can only imagine [for Tonia], you know."

She said having Easter and Mother's Day just two weeks apart this year, might have been more than Whitehead could take.

"She should have been at mom's with him, helping him bust open his [Easter] eggs to see what his prizes were. But instead she was alone and evidently depressed. I wish I could have done more," Johnson said.

Whitehead's former boyfriend, Frank Price, is serving a 70 year prison sentence for murder, for beating Ethan to death.

A friend found Whitehead unconscious, Tuesday, inside her home in 400 block of Brookside.

Police said she'd been inhaling bath salts, a friend had brought to her from the Broadway Package Liquor Store in Alton.

The sale of the salts was legal, but not for human consumption; which police said was the sole reason a the liquor store was selling them.

In an emergency measure, Aldermen banned the possession, delivery and distribution of bath salts, effective immediately.

Police shut down the liquor store. The chief said there was an illegal gambling operation running there.

"And [we] recovered a stockpile of designer drugs that were hidden under the counter and in the ceiling," said Alton Police Chief, David Hayes. "These drugs are designed to mimic cocaine, LSD, methamphetamines. They have the same effect. In many cases death prevails and this is one of those instances."

"I think they should burn it all," Johnson said, crying. "I don't think anyone should have to go through what I'm going through right now. Losing someone you love is like taking a piece of your heart out that you're never going to get back."

Hayes said police arrested the store's three proprietors and the friend who brought the bath salts to Whitehead; criminal charges were pending.

He said the new ban would likely have only meant $75 fines for them, if convicted. Most importantly, he said, the new ban broadened police power to potentially save lives.

"It's going to allow us to seize the product and hold them criminally accountable for the sale of it over the counter," Hayes said.

Hayes said five Alton stores were known to be selling the salts. They had five days to stop.

Illinois lawmakers are considering a ban similar to Alton's.


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Re: Bath Salt Ban Passed After Alton Woman Dies From Overdose Following 50 Hour Binge [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #14364370 - 04/27/11 11:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Bath Salt Ban Passed After Alton Woman Dies From Overdose Following 50 Hour Binge [Re: veggie]
    #14365117 - 04/28/11 03:35 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Stupid people ruin it for everyone.:shake:

What happens when someone screws up on alcohol? NOTHING!!! NOTHING!!! NOTHING!!! HELLO PEOPLE!!! YOUR PARANOID AS HELL OVER NON-ALCOHOL RELATED CRAP!! This kinda crap happens daily with alcohol and nobody cares. I myself occasionally consume alcohol and never do this kinda crap, it isn't the substance, its the people! THE PEOPLE that are to blame. Don't blame McDonalds on being a fat ass that sits around all day depressed! Take responsibility and stop using things as scape goats and getting these things banned so that you can lower your sentences.

"burn it all" how freakin lame.

Has a gun every been used in a crime? or wait, has a gun ever jumped off a shelf, flew to another location, pulled its own trigger and killed someone? Or was it someone who paid for a gun that brought it to a situation where they later shot and killed someone? If a human is committing a crime or dying or killing someone, the human is to blame. PLEASE STOP BLAMING SUBSTANCE ABUSE ON YOUR FRIENDS/FAMILY MEMBERS FOR BEING STUPID!!!!! NOT EVERYONE IS AS STUPID AS THEM!!! LOL, geez.


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Re: Bath Salt Ban Passed After Alton Woman Dies From Overdose Following 50 Hour Binge [Re: guest1]
    #14367401 - 04/28/11 02:48 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

So far, the reputation of these "bath salts" that I have acquired from reading is that they are TOO GOOD.  Too addictive.  Too risky.  This is the end of the road for drug users in my opinion (behaviorly).

What happens once you get addicted to these kind of drugs?  A downward spiral. 

Get out while you can.


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Re: Bath Salt Ban Passed After Alton Woman Dies From Overdose Following 50 Hour Binge [Re: ShroomXolomilco]
    #14367894 - 04/28/11 04:12 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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ShroomXolomilco said:
So far, the reputation of these "bath salts" that I have acquired from reading is that they are TOO GOOD.  Too addictive.  Too risky.  This is the end of the road for drug users in my opinion (behaviorly).

What happens once you get addicted to these kind of drugs?  A downward spiral. 

Get out while you can.






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Re: Bath Salt Ban Passed After Alton Woman Dies From Overdose Following 50 Hour Binge [Re: vandago]
    #14368229 - 04/28/11 05:18 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Bath salts are bush league as fuck. Just buy some real cocaine if your into that shit.

One the hand it seems like a knee-jerk reaction. On the other hand these bath salts seem like some bad fuckin news. Anybody here actually used them?


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