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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brown trout can become addicted to the illegal drug methamphetamine when it accumulates in waterways, according to new research. Researchers led by Pavel Horky, a behavioral ecologist from the Czech ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the opioid epidemic sweeps through America, scientists are scrambling to understand its addictive power in hopes of developing new treatment methods. In ...