Ivory Wave

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A product sold as powdered bath salts on the internet, in so-called 'head shops' and market stalls, often with a label 'not for human consumption’. It has been billed as providing a 'legal high' given its content of the psychoactive agent MDPV, a powerful stimulant recently banned in the UK as a Class B drug. Ivory Wave surfaced in the UK drug scene in 2009, and was billed as providing a legal high, prompting warnings to all A&E departments, after dozens of overdose cases appeared in Cumbria, Lothian and Dorset. Not all packages of Ivory Wave contain the same thing—e.g., some have lidocaine—but MDPV has an amphetamine-like effect with tachycardia, tachypnoea, visual and auditory hallucinations, and psychotic reactions so severe that extra hands are needed to keep patients on their trolleys and from harming themselves and others
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Because it was called bath salts, it initially evaded the Food and Drug Administration and was sold at gas stations and clubs marked "not for human consumption," which earned it its name as the "legal high." Creatively packaged in containers that are colorful and attractive, the drug has aliases such as "plant food," "Ivory Wave," "Purple Wave," "Bloom," "Cloud Nine," or "Vanilla Sky," according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Most commonly called bath salts, these substances have a variety of other street names, including: Bloom, Blue Silk, Charge+, Hurricane Charlie, Ivory Snow, Ivory Wave, Lunar Wave, Ocean Burst, Ocean Snow, Pure Ivory, Purple Wave, Red Dove, Scarface, Sex-tacy, Snow Leopard, Stardust, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Knight, White Lightning, White Rush, and Zoom.
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