Fish on Prozac

Fish in Texas are absorbing antidepressant drugs from waste water, according to a new study. The chemicals can apparently alter brain activity in the fish, but a general sense of well-being isn't the likely payoff, the researchers say. To find out whether fish in the Trinity River Basin north of Dallas are affected by the widely prescribed antidepressants Prozac and Zoloft, ecologist Bryan Brooks of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and his colleagues tested samples of three common fish in Pecan Creek. In the brains and livers of the fish, the researchers found concentrations as high as 30 parts per billion of the active ingredients and breakdown products of the drugs