Connection between bath salts and zombies




Horror movie aficionados, who started preparing for the zombie apocalypse back when George Romero released his first Day of the Dead film, had the last laugh in 2012.



A video of a man attacking and eating the face of a homeless man made the rounds of the internet in May of 2012. Police later confirmed that it wasn’t a hoax or an edgy viral marketing campaign – it was security camera footage of Miami resident Rudy Eugene’s attack on Ronald Poppo. Dozens more cannibal stories started appearing in the media in the following months.



Bath salts, a designer drug said to induce hallucinations and paranoia, has been blamed for the so-called rise of zombie attacks, despite the fact that many of the attackers tested negative to the drug. The Centre for Disease Control even released a statement dismissing the existence of a virus or condition that would induce zombie-like effects. It’s more than likely that the response to Poppo’s attack resulted in the media over-reporting anything with a tenuous link to cannibalism, making the trend seem more prevalent and alarming than it really was.



But if we forget facts and reasoning for just a minute, we’ve got a drug that turns people into zombies, a spate of attacks, and a government organisation denying everything. Sounds exactly like a zombie flick to me.