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Keep fish off drugs: Don’t flush your pills

Posted by: Maven on February 6, 2010 at 7:05 am

From AlterNet:

“Okay, so the image is kinda funny—a bunch of drugged-out party fish swerving all over the place, burping up air bubbles. But really, it’s not cool. Because we’re the fishes’ drug dealers.

It’s true. Around the country, chemists have discovered that fish in the water downstream from water treatment plants absorb chemicals found in antidepressant drugs into their bodies.

Discover puts it like this: … “

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February 6, 2010 · Filed Under Water Quality

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