Cocaine Pollution Seems to Make Salmon Swim Faster and Farther Than Usual. Scientists Don’t Know the Long-Term Consequences
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The illegal drug’s main byproduct, benzoylecgonine, caused more robust effects than cocaine itself. Wastewater treatment plants often don’t fully process such metabolites, so they are frequently found in bodies of water at higher concentrations than their parent drugs