Wednesday, August 10, 2005

To date, much of the drug-use data gathered has centered on the consumption side. The Italians checked the outflow side of the black box by sampling sewage water, and found that many of their citizens were nursing W-sized Texas-sized cocaine habits.

This approach revealed that the 5 million people living around the Po, Italy's largest river, consume four kilograms of cocaine each day. This translates into at least 40,000 daily doses of this drug, or about 200,000 lines of cocaine, the team reports in Environmental Health1."It's higher than what we were expecting," says Zuccato.

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