![Drugs Sold As Bath Salts Now Illegal In La.](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2011/01/Bobby-Jindal-2-Getty.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Drugs Sold As Bath Salts Now Illegal In La.
MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has issued an emergency order barring a half-dozen dangerous new drugs sold as phony bath salts or plant food, with penalties equivalent to those for heroin.
Jindal says Louisiana also is asking the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to investigate whether the state is a national distribution center. That's because Louisiana's poison control center gets 57 percent of all calls about the chemicals nationwide.
Louisiana's center has received 165 calls about people in crisis after snorting, smoking or injecting the drugs. Officials say Kentucky has the next-largest number with 23.
Officials say that in Louisiana, 85 percent of the calls are from emergency room doctors or first responders.
More From News Talk 96.5 KPEL
![Jindal Administration Says ‘No’ To Louisiana Creating Its Own Health Insurance Market](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2012/08/healthcare.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Lake Charles Family Arrested In Bath Salt Sting](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2012/06/Verna-Oliver-e1340833511600.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Drug Investigation Launched After Lafayette Authorities Conduct Traffic Stop](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2011/10/Bath-Salts-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![New Law Makes Bath Salts And Synthetic Marijuana Illegal](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2011/07/synthetic-marijuana.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![“Bath Salts” Bill Waiting For Jindal’s Signature](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2011/06/Bobby-Jindal-22.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Fake Marijuana And Bath Salts Bill Passes Senate Committee](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2011/06/Synthetic-Marijuana-Schorle-Wikipedia.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![State House Approves Budget](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2011/05/Louisiana-Capitol-Building5.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![La. Won’t Create Insurance Exchanges](http://townsquare.media/site/36/files/2011/03/DHH-Logo-katc.jpg?w=980&q=75)