Dimethocaine ( Bath Salts, Eric 3, Mdat, Nps, Plant Food)

New psychoactive substances (NPS) that come as powders, pills or capsules tend to be snorted or swallowed, while smoking mixtures are either smoked in a joint or spliff or by using a pipe.

There have been reports of some people injecting NPS. Injecting any drug is particularly dangerous because a drug is more likely to reach harmful or fatal levels by this route

There’s not enough known about many of these drugs to know about their potency, their effects on people, or what happens when they’re used with other substances or alcohol.

The packaging might describe a list of ingredients but you can’t be sure that this is what’s inside. So you can’t really be sure of what you’ve bought or been given, or what effect it’s likely to have on you or your friends.

The main effects of almost all psychoactive drugs, including so-called legal highs, can be described using the four main categories below. While drugs in each of these categories will be similar in the effects they produce, they will have widely different strengths and effects on different people.

Stimulants

Stimulants (like mephedrone and naphyrone) act like amphetamines, cocaine, or ecstasy, in that they can make you feel energised, physically active, fast-thinking, very chatty and euphoric.

Sedatives

Downers or sedatives (like GHB and GBL act similarly to benzodiazepines (drugs like diazepam or Valium), or GHB/GBL, in that they can make you feel euphoric, relaxed or sleepy.

Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens or psychedelics (like N-bomb drugs) act like LSD, magic mushrooms, ketamine and methoxetamine. They create altered perceptions and can make you hallucinate (seeing and/or hearing things that aren’t there). They can induce feelings of euphoria, warmth, ‘enlightenment’ and being detached from the world around.

Synthetic cannabinoids

Synthetic cannabinoids (like Spice or Black Mamba): act similarly to cannabis. The effects of these are similar to cannabis intoxication: relaxation, altered consciousness, disinhibition, a state of being energised and euphoria.

How long the effects last and the drug stays in your system depends on how much you’ve taken, your size and what other drugs you may have also taken.