A benzodiazepine seeping into waterways is causing young Atlantic salmon to behave strangely, with fish in the wild migrating ...

Clobazam, a benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety, has been found to affect Atlantic salmon in similar ways to humans.

Pharmaceutical pollution in waterways is changing animal behavior. Exposure to an antianxiety drug is affecting migrating ...

Scientists found that fish given an antianxiety drug reached their feeding grounds more often. But researchers warned of ...

A Swedish study found traces of the drug had altered the way wild Atlantic salmon migrate.A common anti-anxiety drug, which ...

And because sewage treatment plants usually can’t filter ... exposed to our meds. Basically, fish are on drugs — our drugs. What, exactly, does that mean for wildlife? That’s what a ...

But studying what these drugs do to fish out in the wild has been a lot harder ... Building better wastewater treatment ...

Exposure to the drug makes the fish less fearful and gives them more ... And because sewage treatment plants "usually can't filter them all out, those compounds ultimately end up where treated ...

The drug is used to prevent epileptic seizures, for short-term treatment of anxiety and to treat anxiety-related sleep disorders. But because neural wiring in fish resembles that of mammals ...

A study has found that drugs, which pollute the waterways, change the way the fish migrate.Image ... Conventional water treatment methods are not always effective at removing pharmaceuticals ...