Doomed British Shrimp Bollixed Up on Prozac

They're probably happy as clams, but they're about to die.

PRAWNS and shrimps around Britain are getting high on anti-depressants, say experts.
A rising level of drugs like Prozac in coastal waters is changing the habits of marine life.

Sea creatures are FIVE TIMES more likely to swim up to light when exposed to drugs, tests revealed.

The behaviour puts the mud-loving crustaceans at risk of being eaten by fish or birds - which could have a devastating effect on their numbers.

But he added: "It's no surprise that what we get from a pharmacy will be contaminating the waterways." He said some marine life was coping with prescription drugs of whole TOWNS.

Anti-depressant use has soared in recent years, with doctors in England and Wales prescribing more than 26 million annually. Users excrete them into sewage, yet the environmental effect has been largely unexplored.

[The Sun]