KEENE — Christina Close, a drug addict most of her life, had been clean for more than a year before she discovered “bath salts.” “I thought I was getting a legal high,” said Close, 31, of Keene. The ...

People are inventing so many new, legal ways to get high that lawmakers can’t seem to keep up. Over the past two years, the U.S. has seen a surge in the use of synthetic drugs made of legal chemicals ...

Bath salts are a form of synthetic drug. They contain synthetic cathinones, which are lab-made stimulants. The cathinones found in bath salts were made illegal in the United States in 2012. Synthetic ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A multi-agency operation led to a major drug trafficking investigation that turned up a large amount of illegal bath salts, as well as millions in cash in the Salt Lake City area. The ...