Noura Ibrahim

Science blogger

Toxicology reports released last week by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner found that there were no traces of bath salts in the body of Rudy Eugene, the "Miami Cannibal" who attacked 65-year-old Ronald Poppo under the MacArthur Causeway on May 26.

Floyd Elliot

Writer; Humorist; Dad; Chicagoan; Parenthetical Expression Abuser (Recovering) (Kind of)

We are on the verge of a zombie apocalypse, and I couldn't be happier. For I, you see, am a zombie, or, as we prefer to be called by you brains on legs, Shuffling-Undead-American.

Christian Piatt

Author, editor, speaker

It's hard to say if the pop culture popularity has influenced similar copycat killers, or if the zombie craze simply has made us more sensitive to similar real-life stories. Either way, both the fictional tales and actual news items may speak to something going on in our collective imaginations.

Dylan Gadino

Founder and editor in chief, Laughspin.com

The only context to last night's joke comes in the form of one dead man, a man left without a face and one woman whose life is now ruined. No point was made; no artistic boundary was pushed.

Subhash Kateel

Co-Host, Let's Talk About It! Radio

Mention Miami this week and the first thing people will talk about is the "zombie" attack. Once the Twitterverse finishes with the jokes, look into the lives of both men and it stops being funny and starts being sad.

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Medical director, New York State Office of Mental Health

Sales of another form of 'bath salts' are reaching new records -- and bringing grave health hazards. While news of their popularity (and risk) has circulated for some time, there is very disturbing information just out.

Howard Meitiner

President and CEO, Phoenix House

These are not problems we can simply legislate away. Our approach needs to be twofold: addressing substance abuse on both macro and micro levels.