Sweden: Drugs Leaked Into Rivers Make Fish Antisocial

LiveScience: Drugs taken by humans can have unintended side effects -- on fish, in the natural environment. Turns out, fish fed extremely low concentrations of an antianxiety drug eat more quickly, and act bolder and more antisocial than their un-medicated peers, a new study finds. "We can see profound effects at the low levels that we find in surface water. Exposed fish are more bold," Jerker Fick, a co-author and researcher at Umea University in Sweden, said at a news conference here at the annual meeting......

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