This is Your Sewer.. on Drugs

Are peo­ple in your neigh­bor­hood using Cocaine? Meth? LSD? Flint­stone Vit­a­mins? Scharffen-Berger Choco­late? Soon, you may be able to have a bet­ter idea as to whether your neigh­bors are truly crazy or just good old fash­ioned junkies, loaded up on bar­bi­tu­rates. “How?” you ask. Well, it seems as thought sci­en­tists in Ore­gon are now drug test­ing raw sewage. They can run tests to deter­mine if the waste from an area con­tains high lev­els of “intox­i­cated waste.” One of the ideas behind this is that if the lev­els of a par­tic­u­lar drug found in the sewer sys­tem show up or go up in a spe­cific part of town, the police could then step up patrols and change tac­tics for bet­ter drug enforce­ment. Accord­ing to the story, indi­vid­u­als can not be tied back to the drug use with this tech­nol­ogy — so it would serve just as a gen­eral indi­ca­tor for pat­terns of drug use. Not sure how I feel about some­body test­ing sewage for drugs, but I am glad I chose mar­ket­ing. Many would prob­a­bly dis­agree with me on that one. Since hear­ing this story, I can’t help but sing the musi­cal num­ber below from Scrubs. Looks like they need a new verse.

Every­thing comes down to poo.  Below is the NPR story that led to this awful post.

A Com­mu­nal Drug Test via the Sewer : NPR