The night before, Eugene had been with his
girlfriend in Miami Gardens. She reported that he was acting strangely before
leaving in his car. According to police, Eugene later called her to say that his
car broke down.
It is believed Eugene was under the influence of a potent form of drug called 'bath salts' at the time but toxicology results will take several weeks
Emergency room doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said they have seen an increase in incidents related to the drug, which is referred to on the street as 'the new LSD'.
'We noticed an increase probably after Ultra Fest,' said emergency room Dr Paul Adams, at Jackson Memorial Hospital to CBS.
When people take bath salts, Dr Adams said, their temperature rises to an extremely high level, causing them to rip off their clothes and become aggressive in a state of extreme delirium
A former classmate of Eugene Victoria Forte, who attended North Miami Beach High School, told the Sun Sentinel: 'Drugs did this to him. Drugs took over a person we knew as a beautiful person.'
She claimed that he never got into trouble.
Mr Poppo - who has been homeless for more than three decades - is in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital with his nose, mouth and eyes torn off.
As one witness described it: 'His face was eaten off all the way down to his beard.'
According to Miami police, the first call of a disturbance came from a passing motorist who reported seeing Eugene stripping off his clothes and acting erratically. That is just one of the many stories that are surfacing now concerning these new synthetic drugs..it gets worse ..... read on pimpin.........................
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A yearbook picture of Ronald Poppo was
obtained by the New York Daily
News, who reported the victim was in
the Latin Club and worked in the guidance office at Stuyvesant High School
before he became homeless.
According to his long record of petty arrests,
he spent the last four decades in Florida and nothing is yet known about how his
tragic fall from grace from top student to a life on the
streets.
Dubbed "bath salts" because of its appearance, the drug is much more dangerous than that innocuous-sounding name implies. It is made with the active agent of Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDVP), mephedrone or methylone.
Users can become paranoid, hallucinate and be driven to horrific acts of violence -- as in Miami, where police could only halt the attack by shooting the man dead.
Greg Purvis, director of addiction services in northern Nova Scotia, calls the drug the most dangerous new product he's seen in his career.
"I've been working in addictions for 19 years -- and this is the first drug which really has me concerned," he said in a telephone interview.
Since April, local emergency rooms have dealt with about three cases a week of people on bath salts.
"We are concerned ... because in an unusually short period of time -- anywhere from one month to two months -- folks are going from using this drug to having very severe, negative consequences...
"Police and emergency physicians are having problems because this is a stimulant similar to speed, and you are having that amped-up extra strength and aggression. These folks are experiencing psychosis, so they don't really know what's going on -- imagine that in the back of your squad car."
Dr. Nancy Murphy, medical director of the IWK Regional Poison Centre and an emergency physician in Halifax, was the first doctor to encounter bath salts in the Maritimes' largest city. She said what sets the drug apart from other amphetamines is the "degree of the psychiatric effects.".
The drug also has unpleasant side-effects, including elevated core body temperatures, heart problems and muscle deterioration.
Part of what makes the drug so dangerous is that is cheap to produce and highly addictive.
Mr. Purvis says a user told him while $150 could keep him high on cocaine for five hours, $150 could keep him high on bath salts for a day and a half.
It is believed Eugene was under the influence of a potent form of drug called 'bath salts' at the time but toxicology results will take several weeks
Emergency room doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said they have seen an increase in incidents related to the drug, which is referred to on the street as 'the new LSD'.
'We noticed an increase probably after Ultra Fest,' said emergency room Dr Paul Adams, at Jackson Memorial Hospital to CBS.
When people take bath salts, Dr Adams said, their temperature rises to an extremely high level, causing them to rip off their clothes and become aggressive in a state of extreme delirium
A former classmate of Eugene Victoria Forte, who attended North Miami Beach High School, told the Sun Sentinel: 'Drugs did this to him. Drugs took over a person we knew as a beautiful person.'
She claimed that he never got into trouble.
Mr Poppo - who has been homeless for more than three decades - is in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital with his nose, mouth and eyes torn off.
As one witness described it: 'His face was eaten off all the way down to his beard.'
According to Miami police, the first call of a disturbance came from a passing motorist who reported seeing Eugene stripping off his clothes and acting erratically. That is just one of the many stories that are surfacing now concerning these new synthetic drugs..it gets worse ..... read on pimpin.........................
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Victim of 'Miami Cannibal' was star student at elite New York high school - as shocking new video shows he was STILL conscious during EIGHTEEN-minute attack
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| The Victim was once a superstar in high school but he fell from grace and became homeless and on drugs . This face is now mutilated and beyond repair . Miami police have set up a fund for this man . It is a tragedy indeed . |
- Rudy Eugene, 31, tore into victim's face with his teeth and growled
- Police believe he may have taken 'bath salts,' a potent new drug
- Images have been released of Ronald Poppo, 65, recovering in Miami hospital
- 75 per cent of victim's face chewed off in 'some of the most horrific injuries staff have ever encountered'
- Was still conscious when he was stretchered off to hospital
- Investigators trying to piece together last hours of Eugene's life
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| The face of the man who ate a face |
Users can become paranoid, hallucinate and be driven to horrific acts of violence -- as in Miami, where police could only halt the attack by shooting the man dead.
Greg Purvis, director of addiction services in northern Nova Scotia, calls the drug the most dangerous new product he's seen in his career.
"I've been working in addictions for 19 years -- and this is the first drug which really has me concerned," he said in a telephone interview.
Since April, local emergency rooms have dealt with about three cases a week of people on bath salts.
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| These new drugs have strange and dangerous side effects |
"Police and emergency physicians are having problems because this is a stimulant similar to speed, and you are having that amped-up extra strength and aggression. These folks are experiencing psychosis, so they don't really know what's going on -- imagine that in the back of your squad car."
Dr. Nancy Murphy, medical director of the IWK Regional Poison Centre and an emergency physician in Halifax, was the first doctor to encounter bath salts in the Maritimes' largest city. She said what sets the drug apart from other amphetamines is the "degree of the psychiatric effects.".
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| DON'T DO DRUGS ......... |
The drug also has unpleasant side-effects, including elevated core body temperatures, heart problems and muscle deterioration.
Part of what makes the drug so dangerous is that is cheap to produce and highly addictive.
Mr. Purvis says a user told him while $150 could keep him high on cocaine for five hours, $150 could keep him high on bath salts for a day and a half.
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