America's opioid crisis is far-reaching — even to Seattle area harbors. State agencies uncovered traces of oxycodone in native bay mussels. Biologist Jennifer Lanksbury told NPR member radio station KUOW, "Oxycodone is in the news right now but there are a number of other pharmaceutical products that we found. Antibiotics, the anti-depressants, chemotherapy drugs, heart medications that we're finding in mussels." Related: "Microplastics have been found in mussels everywhere scientists...
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