Flushed Pharmaceuticals Are Likely Drugging Stream Dwellers Like The Platypus

Humans don’t absorb 100 percent of the drugs we consume. The pharmaceuticals that our bodies don’t use are cleared from our systems and flushed down into sewage systems, processed in water treatment plants, and finally dumped into streams and other waterways.But an alarming number of pharmaceutical compounds aren’t filtered out during the treatment process. Research published today in Nature Communications shows that this might have an even bigger effect on stream ecosyste