This is not cannibalism. No where near it. Each case has been a person whacked out on the "new" bath salts drug. I quote new because I live in Rockland Maine, where bath salts have been a MAJOR problem for the past three years. It started in 2007 though, and since then our emergency rooms have been overflowing with these people.
Bath Salts is like LSD, only along with the high comes a near psychotic rage, and it takes 48-96 hours for it to come down. Then, it takes 1-2 WEEKS for the drug to leave to person's system, all the while that person can still have "flash backs" and go into another tantrum.
Each person needs to be literally strapped down, with zero possible movement, and put on IV for two weeks. Just by checking, the Pen Bay ER has over 200 cases currently occupying beds.
This is, without a doubt, the worst drug EVER to hit our country. Surprisingly enough, it was imported from China, legally, for literally bath salts. Now teenagers are buying it off the streets for 15 bucks a hit, and costing my town millions in reserve police, doctors, health care, and other issues.