Friday, August 05, 2005

Novel Yet Unsettling Way to Calculate Cocaine Use

BBC

Researchers in Italy are attempting to figure out the number of cocaine users in Italy by calculating the amount of benzoylecgonine in the Po River. Benzoylecgonine is only found in the urine of cocaine users. Their findings suggest there are 3 times as much cocaine consumption in the Po Valley than previously estimated.

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