14 DAY TRIAL // Methamphetamine is widely recognized as a highly dangerous drug, seeing how it takes a very short while for people to get addicted to it. Besides, shaking off methamphetamine addiction is a fairly difficult thing to do.
Researchers now warn that, as experiments carried out on mice suggest, methamphetamine might turn out to be child's play when compared to “bath salts,” a new type of laboratory-made drug obtained from synthetic chemicals.
Live Science reports that rats addicted to MDPV, a chemical compound found in “bath salts,” were willing to work much harder in order to get a new fix than meth-addicted rats were.
On average, they pressed a lever for up to 600 times, hoping that they might receive some MDPV. Rats addicted to methamphetamine, on the other hand, quit pressing the lever after 60 failed attempts.
Based on this evidence, specialists fear that these new drugs are “here to stay,” and that they might affect people much more than methamphetamine does.