Bath salts can cause some life-threatening side effects. Also, the effects can make people engage in activities that put their lives at risk. Some of the most common ones include:

• Hallucinations
• Panic attacks
• Paranoia
• Sweating
• Rapid heart rate
• High blood pressure

These side effects alone are intense, but the bad news doesn’t end there. Bath salts addiction increases people’s chances of having heart attacks or strokes. It can even cause kidney failure. However, the hallucinations that people have are some of the most dangerous that drugs produce. There are stories of people attacking others on the street or fighting with police while having bath salt-induced hallucinations. In one incident, a person tried to eat someone’s face on the street.

According to 2012 reports, a Miami police officer had to shoot and kill a homeless man. The report says that the homeless man was eating the face of another homeless man while tripping on bath salts. It took four bullets to stop the homeless man, who had already ate down to the bone on the forehead. Needless to say, these dangerous bath salts side effects make people engage in dangerous behaviors.