Fish can get addicted to meth after eating human poop

Fish can get addicted to meth after eating human poop

By Thom Dunn

Source: boingboing

11/2/2022

Credit: PxHere

According to a new study from the Journal of Experimental Biology, fish in the Czech and Slovak Republics have been getting addicted to methamphetamines, thanks to heavy doses of the drug been discharged into wastewater that gets flushed back out to their habitats.

In some parts of Europe, methamphetamine use is elevated; for example, sewage- (or wastewater-) based epidemiology studies of illicit drugs in raw sewage identified relatively high consumption in regions of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Consequently, methamphetamine was previously observed in surface waters of the Czech Republic at levels of hundreds of nanograms per liter.

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