Scientists develop way to drug-test an entire city

by Gene on Aug. 22nd, 2007

Researchers were able to take a single teaspoon of water from a city's sewage plant, and test it to see what drugs, legal and illegal, people were using. The tests cannot identify individual people -- it merely measures the level of certain drugs in the city's waste water.

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