CBS News: More Than 150 Arrested in Bust of Synthetic Drug Ring
Posted on October 16, 2015
“The availability and illicit marketing of synthetic drugs creates the impression that they are safe and legal, when in fact they are neither,” ICE Director Sarah R. Saldaña said Thursday. “We are equally concerned about getting the word out — especially to young people — about the dangers, and potentially deadly consequences, of using these substances,” she said.
“This can cause kidney failure, it can lead to heart attacks, strokes, seizures which don’t stop, that require a person to be put on a respirator,” Lenox Hill Hospital emergency room doctor Robert Glatter told CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod in September.