Via Instapundit: Antidepressant drugs, making their way through an increasing number of people’s bodies, getting excreted in small amounts into their toilets, and moving through the wastewater treatment process to lakes and rivers, are being found in multiple Great Lakes fish species’ brains, new research by the University of Buffalo has found.
Researchers detected high concentrations of both the active ingredients and metabolites — byproducts of the parent drug — of popular antidepressant pharmaceuticals including Zoloft, Prozac, Celexa and Sarafem in the brains of fish caught in the Niagara River connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. . . .
Previous research has shown antidepressants in water create “suicidal shrimp” that swim toward light instead of away from it, making them vulnerable to predator fish and birds, Aga said.
“Other research teams have shown that antidepressants can affect the feeding behavior of fish, or their survival instincts,” Aga said. “Some fish won’t acknowledge the presence of predators as much.”
Researchers detected high concentrations of both the active ingredients and metabolites — byproducts of the parent drug — of popular antidepressant pharmaceuticals including Zoloft, Prozac, Celexa and Sarafem in the brains of fish caught in the Niagara River connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. . . .
Previous research has shown antidepressants in water create “suicidal shrimp” that swim toward light instead of away from it, making them vulnerable to predator fish and birds, Aga said.
“Other research teams have shown that antidepressants can affect the feeding behavior of fish, or their survival instincts,” Aga said. “Some fish won’t acknowledge the presence of predators as much.”
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8 comments:
"Of the 22 targeted PPCPs, 11 were found at part-per-billion levels in WWTP effluents and at part-per-trillion levels in river water samples."
Parts per billion is BS. Parts per trillion is BS on stilts. Really, really tall stilts.
Wasn't this a Sponge Bob Squarepants episode?
In the final analysis we'll all be dead. I read a baby sheep was born from an artificial uterus. Put a fork in us, we're done.
Hey, baby, wass happennin'?
Sponge Bob Square Pants, Gender Fluidity episode. Watch as Bob becomes Bobbette Square Panties.
Hi Deb. Nice to hear from you. Don't be a stranger.
Thanks, Lem :)
On the plus side, people who eat a lot of Great Lakes fish are much more mellow. There have been several reported cases of cheerfulness in Detroit,
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