Antidepressants Aren’t For Fish

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Each year, tons of medicine ends up in the environment. Some is excreted by patients. In other instances, leftovers are flushed down the toilet or thrown out with the trash. Unfortunately, wildlife don’t find these pollutants necessarily benign, much less therapeutic. Details of their potential to evoke adverse consequences have been emerging this week in dozens of new studies at the Society of Environmental Toxicology

Each year, tons of medicine ends up in the environment. Some is excreted by patients. In other instances, leftovers are flushed down the toilet or thrown out with the trash. Unfortunately, wildlife don’t find these pollutants necessarily benign, much less therapeutic. Details of their potential to evoke adverse consequences have been emerging this week in dozens of new studies at the Society of Environmental Toxicology

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