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The rise of bathsalts


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Создано выпускниками Колумбийского университета в Сан-Франциско

Lena: Hey everyone, welcome back to another personalized podcast from BeFreed-I'm Lena, and I'm genuinely excited to dive into today's topic with you all.
Eli: And I'm Eli! You know, Lena, when we started looking into the rise of bath salts as a drug phenomenon, I had no idea how deeply this would connect to everything we thought we knew about addiction, drug policy, and how substances spread through communities.
Lena: Right? It's fascinating because bath salts represent this perfect storm of factors that we've seen play out with other substances throughout history. But there's something uniquely modern about how they emerged and spread.
Eli: Absolutely. And what's really compelling is that when we start pulling at this thread, we're not just talking about one drug-we're talking about patterns that reveal so much about how our entire approach to substances and addiction has been shaped by forces that have nothing to do with public health.