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British experts recorded in the Thames surprisingly high levels of cocaine. Results of studies have shown that the drug and its metabolites enter river from the sewer. It could be assumed that some drug dealers get rid of the forbidden powder, washing it off in toilet, but in reality everything is much more prosaic and at the same time sadder. Hazardous substance appears in piping networks and seeps into the river after it is received by people.
Cocaine is eliminated from the human body within three days with urine, after which it safely passes through purification systems and enters the Thames. Number of London cocainists exceed 250 thousand people, and these people themselves do not realizing a large amount is drained daily into the sewers poison. Local officials have long been talking about the problem of drug addiction in the capital, although they ignore its true scale. Notably that from the ubiquity of cocaine in the metropolis not only people prone to its use suffer, but also the inhabitants Thames.
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In particular, it goes to the eels that Londoners are so proud of. Laboratory tests show that due to excessive content in water cocaine fish become hyperactive: exhibit unusual energy that quickly leads to depletion body, muscle failure and premature death. Exactly cocaine also affects people, but if a person (at least theoretically) able to stop using the drug then unfortunate fish there is simply nowhere to go from him.
