Things Are So Bad In Seattle Even The SHELLFISH Are Addicted To Opioids

This is a thing:

Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids https://t.co/hojSCohqSb pic.twitter.com/1y28qO5cMk

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 26, 2018

WTF, Seattle?

As more and more American communities grapple with opioid addiction, the human toll of the epidemic has grown in both scope and severity. And now, scientists at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have found evidence that drug’s impact has literally flowed downstream to affect marine life, as well.

Specifically, they used mussels as a barometer of pollution in the waters off Seattle, and discovered that oxycodone is now present enough in the marine environment there for shellfish to test positive.

Since mussels are “filter feeders,” they absorb contaminants from their environment into their tissues in a concentrated way. Scientists used cages to transplant clean mussels from an aquaculture source on Whidbey Island to 18 urbanized locations around Puget Sound. Several months later, they pulled those previously uncontaminated mussels back out of the urban waters and, together with the Puget Sound Institute, tested them again.

In three of the 18 locations, the mussels then tested positive for trace amounts of oxycodone.

Another Democratic city going to absolute sh*t.

Meanwhile, the Democrats running the joint are making BRILLIANT moves like massive business taxes that will very clearly drive away jobs in order to house a MEASLY percentage of their ever-growing homeless population and give city employees raises.

WAY TO GO, SEATTLE.

You’re (literally) killing it.