PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–As students are arriving on college campuses across the state, so are “deadly drugs,” according to Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody.
A “lesser known” synthetic drug called eutylone is “claiming an alarming number of lives in Florida,” she said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than half of overdose deaths in Florida are attributed to eutylone.
The drug is labeled as bath salts and is human-made and designed to mimic the stimulant effects of cathinone. Cathinone is a compound found in the khat plant and can make people “feel energetic” and euphoric. The khat plant is usually grown in Yemen and parts of eastern Africa where it is customary to chew the leaves during social gatherings, according to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation website….