Environmental scientists have begun sampling raw sewage at municipal sewage plants to test for overall drug use in major cities. And what have they found so far? That people do illegal drugs everywhere.
What they've also found is that those drugs are going everywhere.
We learned earlier this year that traces of prescription drugs had been found in our drinking water, but as we all know, everyone poops—even the people who use crack and cocaine. So if your uncle's Viagra is going into the drinking water, chances are good that your cousin's cocaine is going there, too.
But don't worry, or start holding your nose, because to get a single dose of cocaine you'd have to drink 1,000 liters of raw sewage.
The only thing we think might save our drinking water from your cousin's coke-infested poop is the hope that the most strung out folks just squat on the street, but according to the L.A. Times, poop don't lie: "Law enforcement officials have long sought a way to come up with reliable and verifiable calculations of narcotics use, to identify new trends and formulate policies. Surveys, the backbone of drug-use estimates, are only as reliable as the people who answer them. But sewage does not lie."
[LA Times: One big drug test for L.A.: sewage analysis]
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