As the opioid epidemic sweeps through America, scientists are scrambling to understand its addictive power in hopes of developing new treatment methods. In the process, they discovered that zebrafish ...

Scientists got a bunch of zebrafish addicted to opioids in an effort to better understand how to combat the drug epidemic, according to a new study. Researchers are trying to come up with more ...

Some fish got hooked – on meth. Scientific researchers got brown trout addicted to the drug in a test that had them swimming in a tank with meth-laced water for eight weeks, a study published Tuesday ...

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Researchers dumped 60 brown trout in a water tank that contained low levels of methamphetamine to see if they would get addicted, like humans. After eight weeks, the fish started preferring waters ...

A new study reveals that brown trout can get addicted to small amounts of methamphetamine that appear in their freshwater environments, which includes experiencing signs of withdrawal. Though it might ...

When people consume drugs, they metabolize a good portion of them. But what isn’t metabolized can come out when people pee, and sewage treatment plants aren’t designed to filter those trace amounts of ...

Opioid addiction in the United States is at crisis levels, with drug overdoses now the leading cause of death for people under the age of 50. Treating those addictions, however, is tough; scientists ...

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As the opioid epidemic sweeps through America, scientists are scrambling to understand its addictive power in hopes of developing new treatment methods. In the process, they discovered that zebrafish ...