What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social and aggressive, a study found. They even get the munchies.
It may sound funny, but it could threaten the fish population and upset the delicate dynamics of the marine environment, scientists say.
The findings, published online Thursday in the journal Science, add to the mounting evidence that minuscule amounts of medicines in rivers and streams can alter the biology and behavior of fish and other marine animals.
SFGATE.COM
TONY DIGIROLAMO
CULTURE SHOCK TOLD YOU FIRST!
FROM AN ANONYMOUS PSYCHOLOGIST SOURCE, THEY KNEW THAT THIS WAS HAPPENING AND KEEPING IT QUIET.
ORIGINAL POST: 7/24/2007 at 12:27am EST:
A Cultureshocktv.com source dropped the bomb on my evening when I was told, 'there is another reason to be concerned about all these psychotropic drugs. They are being flushed down toilets (sometimes without even going through the human body), and very likely getting into our ground water in the same toxic manner as pesticides, etc. So far, this is being kept under wraps as some scientists look into it.”
Low levels of antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs in water supplies can trigger the expression of genes associated with autism – in fish at least.
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