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  • Oops, we accidentally drugged the world's fish

    From Luigi Mangione@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 11 08:33:56 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sac.politics, talk.politics.guns
    XPost: or.politics

    For those of us with anxiety (hello!), the class of prescription drugs
    known as benzodiazepines, or benzos, can be a boon in times of crisis.
    Though they are addictive, they’re pretty good at chilling us out.

    But it turns out that by drugging ourselves with these pills, we are inadvertently drugging wild animals as well. Especially the ones that
    live in water.

    Our bodies don’t absorb 100 percent of the drugs we ingest, so traces
    of them end up in the toilet. And because sewage treatment plants
    usually can’t filter them all out, those compounds ultimately end up
    where treated sewage is released — in rivers, lakes, and coastal habitats.

    This means that fish and other aquatic critters that live in these
    environments are, for better or worse, exposed to our meds. Basically,
    fish are on drugs — our drugs.

    What, exactly, does that mean for wildlife? That’s what a relatively
    new field of research is trying to figure out. And a study just
    published in the journal Science offers some compelling clues.

    The authors gave young Atlantic salmon in Sweden a dose of clobazam —
    a benzo used to treat seizures and anxiety that’s often found in
    wastewater — equal to what some fish might naturally be exposed to in streams. Then they monitored what the drug did to the fish as they
    migrated, as young salmon do, from a river out to the Baltic Sea.

    They turned gay and became left-wing Democrats. Nobody wants to eat
    that kind of polluted fish.

    https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/407949/anti-anxiety-depression-medication-wildlife-salmon

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  • From Doctor Mung@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 11 15:08:53 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sac.politics, talk.politics.guns
    XPost: or.politics

    For those of us with anxiety (hello!), the class of prescription drugs
    known as benzodiazepines, or benzos, can be a boon in times of crisis.
    Though they are addictive, they’re pretty good at chilling us out.

    But it turns out that by drugging ourselves with these pills, we are >inadvertently drugging wild animals as well. Especially the ones that
    live in water.

    Our bodies don’t absorb 100 percent of the drugs we ingest, so traces
    of them end up in the toilet. And because sewage treatment plants
    usually can’t filter them all out, those compounds ultimately end up
    where treated sewage is released — in rivers, lakes, and coastal
    habitats.

    This means that fish and other aquatic critters that live in these >environments are, for better or worse, exposed to our meds. Basically,
    fish are on drugs — our drugs.

    What, exactly, does that mean for wildlife? That’s what a relatively
    new field of research is trying to figure out. And a study just
    published in the journal Science offers some compelling clues.

    The authors gave young Atlantic salmon in Sweden a dose of clobazam —
    a benzo used to treat seizures and anxiety that’s often found in
    wastewater — equal to what some fish might naturally be exposed to in >streams. Then they monitored what the drug did to the fish as they
    migrated, as young salmon do, from a river out to the Baltic Sea.

    They turned gay and became left-wing Democrats. Nobody wants to eat
    that kind of polluted fish.

    https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/407949/anti-anxiety-depression-medicatio >n-wildlife-salmon


    Estrogen from women's birth control pill using pee has leached into the water and has neutered millions of white men in the deep south to the point where
    the babies being born today are all of mixed race.

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