The synthetic drug ‘bath salts’ continues to be a problem in Utica, with law enforcers responding to a man on his roof on Saturday and a woman who stripped nearly naked and ran into traffic on Friday.

¿ Police said the 22-year-old woman, who was not identified, was violent and foaming at the mouth when she stripped down to just a pair of panties and ran out into traffic in the 1100 block of Bleecker St. at about 7:33 p.m. Friday. Police said the woman repeatedly tried to run in front of cars and had to be restrained until an ambulance arrived.

The woman was screaming that her clothes were electrocuting her and that she had metal inside her body, police stated.

Once at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, the woman told police that her skin was burning and that she could not be around metal or wires. Police said she admitted to taking bath salts and had tried to inject the drug with a syringe.

However, when the syringe didn’t work, the woman told police that she simply ate the bath salts.

¿ Police said a 39-year-old man was found on his roof at 616 Schuyler St. at 4:27 p.m. Saturday, and had been up there for three hours. The man told police that he had been regularly taking bath salts throughout the week, and had not slept in three days. Police said the man was sweating profusely and was talking very fast about how he thought people were coming to his house to beat him up, and how he was going to get ambushed by all the people near him.

However, the only people around were the man on his roof and the police officer talking to him from the driveway. The officer was able to convince the man to come down after a few minutes, and he was taken to St. Elizabeth Medical Center for a health evaluation.

¿ Authorities also responded to 207 Stephens Drive Friday for a 20-year-old man who called 9-1-1 because he thought he was having a heart attack from using bath salts. The man declined hospital treatment, and told the officers that he had been snorting large amounts of bath salts to get high. Police said the man turned over his drugs and told the officers that he bought them from a head shop on Genesee Street. The investigation is continuing.