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All Those Antidepressants You’re Peeing Out Are Messing With Fish, New Study Finds

Researchers found fish proteins can be far more sensitive to certain antidepressants, raising concerns about drugs entering waterways.

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The antidepressants that make you a stable, tolerable human being may be working wonders for you, but when you pee them out, they wind up in water systems and end up messing with fish.

According to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology, the human pharmaceuticals sloshing through wastewater plants are messing with the brain chemistry of aquatic creatures, and those fish are way more sensitive to our meds than we are.

Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science cloned brain protein genes from medaka........

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