Thrown into the toilet or eliminated in the urine: so the drugs we take pollute the environment

That rich countries use drugs too much, and often inappropriately, is certainly no mystery: the abuse of antibiotics, which many people still resort to to soothe any ailment, is one of the main causes of the growing resistance of bacteria to therapies. Just as the boom in psychotropic drug prescriptions, also fueled by the pandemic, is a phenomenon that both in the United States and in the old continent raises more than one concern.