{"id":15708,"date":"2012-07-19T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15708"},"modified":"2012-07-19T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:39:14","slug":"president-obama-signs-law-banning-bath-salts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15708","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Signs Law Banning Bath Salts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> signed a law last week banning bath salts and 31 other synthetic substances, <strong>Dr. Rani G. Whitfield<\/strong> of Baton Rouge, La., was just one of several medical doctors who breathed a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been practicing medicine for 12 years, and I\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen problems began surfacing in the emergency room a little over a year ago, we were seeing psychotic episodes and extreme agitation. The kids were telling us about a new drug called \u2018bath salts.\u2019 We didn\u2019t know what it was. They were like, \u2018No, it\u2019s not what you put in your water. It\u2019s not \u2018Calgon take me away.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Barack Obama signed a law last week banning bath salts and 31 other synthetic substances, Dr. Rani G. Whitfield of Baton Rouge, La., was just one of several medical doctors who breathed a sigh of relief. \u201cI\u2019ve been practicing medicine for 12 years, and I\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}