Category: Environment

Why fish are getting addicted to meth

There have long been concerns that prescription drugs, everything from Prozac to antibiotics are making their ways into waterways where they can be absorbed by fish, and of course illegal drugs are also a part of the chemical cocktail fish encounter in their environment. Not only the fish exposed to these drugs, but they seem to become addicted to them. A new controlled study of 120 juvenile brown trout in the Czech Republic found that fish exhibited addictive behavior towards the drug methamphetamine.