Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy.

Mongabay
Sep 22, 2022, 9:14 pm42 pts
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic consumed humanity’s attention, our species ran through 4.5 trillion doses of myriad pharmaceuticals. In India alone, one drug, paracetamol — a pain reliever used to treat some COVID-19 symptoms — saw sales top 3.5 billion pills through 2021. This occurred even as the…

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