![]() This cocaine ends up in the user’s urine, then passes through a wastewater treatment plant where much of it degrades, and ultimately flows out to sea. Although the liver metabolizes the bulk of what’s consumed, around one percent persists. ![]() Sometimes it falls off ships, but mainly, it’s through people taking the drug. Cocaine reaches the ocean in a variety of ways. The drug endangers species are those which habitat close to shores where Cocaine is highly concentrated. Studies have also focused on rivers of eastern England. NEW RESEARCH, led by Lorena da Silva Souza, a doctoral candidate in marine and coastal management at Spain’s University of Cadiz, shows for the first time that ocean acidification threatens to amplify the aggressive effects of cocaine on marine-life.Ĭostal life contaminated with cocaine as has been found in Brazil’s coast and the Mediterranean Sea near Greece which has proven toxic to shellfish and other sensitive marine animals.
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