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Mussels Off The Seattle Coast Test Positive for OPIOIDS

May 26, 2018 By Erik Walters


Communities across the country continue to struggle with the devastating effect of opioid addiction, but the problem is so bad in Seattle that scientists using mussels as a barometer of pollution in the water have discovered that there is now enough oxycodone in the environment for local shellfish to test positive.

According to Hannity.com, the burgeoning problem of opioid addiction has grown to the point that scientists at the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife have found evidence that drug’s impact has literally flowed downstream to affect marine life.

CBS News, reports that scientists are claiming that local varieties of mussels now contain traces of opioids as the drug’s “flow downstream” is starting to impact aquatic life.

“Since mussels are ‘filter feeders,’ they absorb contaminants from their environment into their tissues in a concentrated way.  Scientists used cages to transplant clean mussels from an aquaculture source on Whidbey Island to 18 urbanized locations around Puget Sound. Several months later, they pulled those previously uncontaminated mussels back out of the urban waters and, together with the Puget Sound Institute, tested them again,” writes CBS.

The mussels tested positive in three of the 18 locations.

The President vowed to crackdown on the nation’s escalating crisis of addiction earlier this year, vowing to increase penalties for drug dealers and smugglers.

“If we don’t get tougher on drug dealers, we are wasting our time … and that toughness includes the death penalty,” Trump said.

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