'It is the evilest thing imaginable': Bath salts addict filmed overdosing describes terror of taking drug blamed for Miami cannibal attack

Freddy Sharp, a drug addict since the age of 13, describes his overdose on bath salts as being the ‘evilest thing imaginable.’



A shocking video of Sharp after taking the potent drug shows him writhing on the floor then making faces and singing to himself as he is strapped down by paramedics.



'You know where you're at?' a paramedic asks. He is unable to answer.

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Hallucinating: Freddy Sharp, 27, of Tennessee, described his overdose on the drug known as bath salts as the worst thing that has happened to him

Tripping out: A video of Sharp overdosing on the potent drug shows him singing to himself as he is strapped down by paramedics - he later recalled hallucinating about being in a mental hospital

Bath salts is the same drug that the 'Miami cannibal', Rudy Eugene, is thought to have been on when he chewed the face off a homeless man last month. The horrific18-minute attack only ended when police shot Eugene dead.

Having survived the overdose Sharp, 27, of Tennessee, told CNN that he was hallucinating about being in a mental hospital and being possessed by Jason Voorhees – the hockey mask wearing serial killer from the Friday the 13th movies.



Admitting to being on drugs since he was 13 or 14-years-old, Sharp said that he’d ‘never experience anything like’ overdosing on bath salts.

Survivor: Sharp told interviewers that he had been taking drugs since he was 13/14-years-old; he described his bath salts overdose as being the 'evilest thing imaginable'

‘It really actually scared me pretty bad,’ he told CNN. 'It felt so evil. It felt like the darkest, evilest thing imaginable.'



Bath salts, referred to on the street as 'the new LSD' and sold as a cocaine substitute, contain amphetamine-like chemicals such as methylenedioxypyrovalerone.



Users of the drug report to feeling no pain. Its effects include paranoia, hallucinations, convulsions and psychotic episodes.



'This is a terrible drug because it takes a combination of methamphetamine, and the paranoia and the aggressiveness, and LSD, the hallucinations, and PCP, the extreme paranoia that you get, combines it into one, and has unpredictable effects on human behavior,'Paul Adams, a doctor at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospita l, told CNN.



Toxicology results will determine whether Rudy Eugene was on bath salts when he pounced on Ronald Poppo, a 65-year-old homeless man he found sleeping on elevated train tracks by a Miami highway.



Footage of the attack shows Eugene stripping and punching his victim before he straddles him and starts to eat his face off.



It was almost 20 minutes until officer Jose Rivera shot Eugene shortly after he arrived. He shouted at the 31-year-old to stop but he simply got up and growled and continued eating at the man's face.

On bath salts? It is thought that Rudy Eugene, left, may have been on bath salts when he ate the face of Ronald Poppo. The attack only ended when police shot and killed Eugene. Poppo is still in hospital



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.



Emergency room doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said they have seen an increase in incidents related to the drug.



The 'new LSD': The drug's effects include paranoia, hallucinations, convulsions and psychotic episodes

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.



Some have been known to use their jaws as a weapon of attack, Dr Adams said, and they become 'extremely strong'.



The new drug is not only a danger to those who take it, but also emergency responders who must restrain the drug-addled abusers of it, Dr Adams said.



'It’s dangerous for the fire fighters. It’s dangerous for the hospital workers taking care of them because they come in, they have to be restrained both chemically and physically and you’re asking for someone to get hurt,' he said.



The drug remains legal in some states, although many have taken steps to ban the substances found in bath salts.



However, when one chemical found in bath salts is prohibited another is added to get round the law, attorney Alex Manning told CNN.



Describing the drug as ‘PCP on crack’, Manning said that people are making the drug out of household products.



Sharp said he never felt the urge to 'eat anybody's flesh' while on the drug, but described feeling ‘10 feet tall and bulletproof’.



Asked to describe his overdose, Sharp said: ‘Fear. Darkness. It felt like impending doom was coming down on me ... I felt like I was about to bust loose and actually hurt somebody.'



Sharp, who said he has not taken the drug for ‘months’, gave a warning to other users: 'The only thing I can say to them is that if you value your life, you'll stop it and you won't do it anymore, because it will destroy your life. It will destroy your family. It will destroy everything.'

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