Midland County second in Michigan for bath salts calls to poison control in 2011

After asking stores to pull products from their shelves and arresting a local distributor last fall, the Midland Police Department has seen a decline in bath salt use since the new designer drug began to pop up in 2011, but current laws limit what they can do to stop its use. In 2011, about 14 percent of the 162 complaints about bath salts to the Michigan Poison Control Center came from Midland County. There were 162 total calls in Michigan, with Marquette at the top of the list with 27, followed by Midland (23), Wayne (13) and Dickinson (10). 6,137 bath salt products were reported to poison control centers in the United States in 2011. In Midland, Police Community Relations Officer Chris Wenzel said the department had its first call involving bath salts during a suicide attempt in April of 2011. Other calls involving bath salts continued through the summer, some including violent and unusual behavior.

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