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

Atlantic salmon exposed to a common anti-anxiety drug migrate faster, according to new research. That's not necessarily a ...

A new study has determined that Atlantic salmon are swimming faster as they migrate to the sea, but why? Learn the shocking ...

Even after wastewater is treated, small doses of the medications that humans commonly take are still found and end up […] ...

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

Instead, he and his colleagues essentially dumped pharmaceuticals into fish just before they were set to migrate from the River Dal in Sweden to the Baltic Sea. The team implanted slow-release drugs ...

they found that more clobazam-exposed salmon reached the Baltic than any of the other fish. Compared with the control group, more than twice as many salmon with clobazam implants made it to the sea.

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

Clobazam seemed to boost the migratory success of the young salmon. More clobazam-exposed fish reached the Baltic than non-exposed fish, the researchers found. Tramadol appeared to have no effect.