BendiNewsTest: New evidence points to methadone in wastewater as source of potent carcinogen

We have all heard or read the evidence that the pills or cleaners you rinse down the drain wind up in the water. But that stuff all gets filtered out at the water treatment plant, doesn’t it? Not necessarily. Scientists now say that methadone—a synthetic analgesic that lasts longer than morphine—is in the water too. What’s more, once methadone reacts with a common water treatment disinfectant, it becomes carcinogenic, according to a new study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.