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Drugs in Water
Traces of cocaine found in the Thames
I have included this article not because any of you live in London but to illustrate the point even more dramatically of the extent to which we have polluted the water resources that we rely upon to drink. This is only one example.
November 07 2005 at 12:26AM AFP
London - So much cocaine is being used in London
that traces of the white powdered narcotic can be detected in the River
Thames, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said.
Citing scientific research which it had commissioned, it said an
estimated two kilograms of cocaine, or 80 000 lines, spill into the
river every day after it has passed through users' bodies and sewage
treatment plants.
It extrapolated that 150 000 lines of the illegal drug are snorted in
the British capital every day, or 15 times higher than the official
figure given by the Home Office.
"Because of the long-term complications of cocaine use, we are looking
at a healthcare time bomb," clinical toxicologist John Henry was quoted
as saying.
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'We are looking at a healthcare time bomb' |
Cocaine use has been in the headlines in Britain after fuzzy images of
supermodel Kate Moss apparently enjoying some lines in a London
recording studio were published in a tabloid newspaper.
She soon went into detox after losing some of her most lucrative
contracts, but is already making a comeback, appearing Sunday on the
front page of several newspapers - including the Sunday Telegraph.
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