Salmon Full of Cocaine and Antidepressants? Study Finds Puget Sound Fish Full of Drugs

[WhiteTara]

http://news.yahoo.com/salmon-full-cocaine-antidepressants-study-140100123.html

It may be time to sit down with your salmon and have a talk about drug abuse.

Researchers found cocaine, Advil, Prozac, Lipitor, Benadryl and dozens of other drugs in the tissue of juvenile chinook salmon caught in the Puget Sound in September 2014, the Seattle Times reported in February. The salmon likely picked up the drugs from wastewater in the area that's a "[cocktail] of 81 drugs," as the Seattle Times put it.

Other drugs found in the wastewater include (but aren't limited to): Aleve, Flonase, Paxil, Tylenol, Tagamet, Valium, Zoloft, Darvon, OxyContin, caffeine, nicotine fungicides, antiseptics, anticoagulants, Cipro and other "antibiotics galore," the Seattle Times reported.

Sounds like one hell of a ride for the salmon.

"The concentrations in effluent [sewage water] were higher than we expected," Jim Meador, an environmental toxicologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a lead author of the study of the contaminants found in the Puget, told the Seattle Times. "We analyzed samples for 150 compounds and we had 61% of them detected in effluent. So we know these are going into the estuaries."

[NV Whino]

1. 🐋 we have to stop those damned fish from taking drugs!

First the salmon, next the whales. Where will it end?

[Oneironaut]

16. OT: Holy crap! Didn't realize emojis work on DU 🐾

[NV Whino]

19. Yep 🎯

🖍 and I just discovered they work in the body as well. I thought it was only the headline. 🚫

[kwassa]

2. Hey, they are Seattle salmon. What do you expect?.

[DJ13]

3. Ever snort a salmon?

Those fins HURT!

[HuckleB]

4. Yeah, science!

We are getting better and better at detecting small amounts of almost anything!

Now, what to do with that information?

Let people know that we can detect things at very small amounts that will not affect them unless they eat tons of the fish in a single sitting, or go out and try to scare the crap out of people for no good reason?

I think we know what usually happens.

[postulater]

8. Here's a good reason.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in the Milwaukee harbor.

http://m.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-harbor-a-hot-spot-for-bacteria-resistant-to-antibiotics-b99643194z1-364033921.html


"Tests found that drug resistance in the bacteria was most prevalent for widely used antibiotics, including erythromycin, sulfamethoxazole, aztreonam and ampicillin.

Exposure to the lurking bacteria through swimming, wading or other activities could become another way that residential and agricultural overuse of soaps, detergents, drugs and other products containing antibacterial compounds will come back to bite the public, Hristova said.

When resistant bacteria from the environment contact skin or enter a person's body, they can transfer genes enabling antibiotic resistance to bacteria residing in mucus or in intestines, according to Hristova."

[HuckleB]

11. Yeah, antibiotics.

And science detection.

[madinmaryland]

13. But what is it doing to the fish?? Are they stoned or high? Apparently they don't

have joint pain, nor do they high blood pressure or erectile dysfunction.

[Rex]

15. Aw man don't be a buzz kill! Try the green salmon while it is still legal!

Clearly the DEA needs to be informed about the unseedy activities of Salmon. Get it off the streets early.

Just say no to fish!

[peacefreak]

5. It was also reported

The salmon also had an infinity for disco music.

[oioioi]

6. (Australia) Large-scale fish kill on Kimberley beaches a mystery, fisheries department says

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-17/kimberley-fish-kill-mystery-fisheries-department-says/7253930

[Monk06]

7. I was wondering why the Kadoya spicy salmon roll was so popular Now what is in that Japanese Mayo?

[geomon666]

9. Apparently I need to drink more water from Puget Sound.

Can they bottle this stuff?

[WhiteTara]

10. They probably do. nt

[sulphurdunn]

12. Please, please, stop

writing "the Puget Sound," It is "Puget Sound." It is very uncommon to preface the names of sounds with articles. This "the Puget Sound" illiteracy began when undereducated local network news celebrities began moving up from California to work at local television stations. It's gone from being a joke among those of us born and raised there, to a source of serious annoyance. Enough, goddammit!

[Rex]

17. So it is not like the Batman?

Confusing as hell.

[Ilsa]

20. or "The Ukraine" or "The Sudan". nt

[WhiteTara]

22. Well at least the headline writer got it right.

but thanks for the heads up on the.

[Rex]

14. Oh wow...the colors!!! Just ate the green salmon and I'm tripping balls!

Of course it is just a matter of time before the DEA outlaws salmon.

[AngryAmish]

18. Friends don't let friends use mass spectrometers.

This is so stupid.

[0rganism]

21. if we could get high by eating fish, would the DEA enforce a fishing ban?

iirc, under the "look alike" law, anything that acts like an illegal drug is just as illegal to sell or possess...