Trout can become ‘addicted’ to meth. Here s why that’s so scary.
Illegal drugs could be having a little-known and disastrous impact on freshwater wildlife, new laboratory experiments show.
ByCarrie Arnold
Email
Traces of methamphetamine and other illegal drugs that enter waterways could cause addiction in fish, a novel study finds.
Recent laboratory experiments found that brown trout, a common fish in Eastern European rivers, exposed to methamphetamine at concentrations like those seen just downstream of wastewater treatment plants showed signs of addiction such as being less active and withdrawal. In the wild, meth-addicted fish could have difficulties reproducing and finding food.