Posted on 01/22/2019 8:15:22 AM PST by ETL
A team of scientists at the university studied wastewater that's entering into the river from nearby sewers during storms and found traces of the drug within 24 hours of the overflow, the Independent reports.
Compared to other major cities, the level of cocaine entering London's water system — likely through users' urine — is much higher.
"Increases in caffeine, cocaine and benzoylecgonine [a metabolite] were observed 24 hours after sewer overflow events,' King's College London researchers said in a paper that detailed their findings, according to the Evening Standard.
London's water treatment plants are tasked with purifying the water but major storms reportedly "overwhelm" the operations and allow some sewage water to make its way into the river.
"Jellyologst" James Robson, a senior curator at SEA LIFE London, told the Independent the addictive drug can have a similar impact on marine animals as it does on humans. ..."
The group of biologists put eels in water with drug residue and discovered it made them hyperactive and drastically changed their bodies.
“All the main functions of these animals could be altered,” said Capaldo, explaining the changes in the eels' muscles, hormones and brain after cocaine exposure.
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No I don’t believe this at all. There may be cocaine metabolites, but that is no longer cocaine. It’s not like Penicillin that flows unchanged through the body. True fact, when penicillin was first discovered in England, they collected patients urine to get the penicillin back for reuse. It was truely a mirical drug that brought the near dead back to life.
Thanks rjsimmon.
Great tagline!
“Cocaine in London river is making eels ‘hyperactive,’ researchers say”
ridiculous ... everyone knows that “climate change” make eels hyperactive ...
If you want to go out
You’ve got to take her out, cocaine
And if you want to get down
Down on the ground, cocaine
She don’t lie
She don’t lie
She don’t lie, cocaine
“Eels up inside ya, findin’ an entrance where they can.”
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