The US Navy doctors did their after-school-special best to warn sailors about “bath salt” synthetic drugs with an unintentionally comical public service announcement.
The well-intentioned 6 ½-minute spot depicts a sailor snorting bath salts he got in the mail before throwing up, punching his girlfriend and seeing her and his roommates as demons.
The sky-high sailor eventually ends up strapped to a gurney in the ER.
Two minutes of paranoid, techno-beat action is followed by a rather sobering chat by a Navy doctor about the dangers of bath salts.
“’Bath salts’ is kind of a very thin veil to what these substances actually are,” said US Navy Lt. George Loeffler, a psychiatric resident at Navy Medical Center San Diego.
“When people are using bath salts, they’re not their normal selves. They’re angrier. They’re erratic. They’re violent and they’re unpredictable. People will start acting really weird. People will start seeing things that are not there.”