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    Fate of Pharmaceutical Drugs and Metabolites in the Environment
    (Springer, Cham. Print, 2021-03-09) Mustapha Aliru Olajide
    In recent years, there have been global concerns about the emerging levels of abused drugs (cocaine, opioid, cannabinoid, amphetamine, lysergic diethylamide and hallucinogen) apart from pharmaceuticals, dyes, solvents, pesticides, heavy metals and chemicals from industrial wastes and direct dumping of other contaminants to the aquatic environment. The escalating levels of these pollutants have prompted the need for proper monitoring of their prevalence in order to stem its social and environmental impacts. New drugs are daily being introduced as the number of patents keeps increasing, and the pharmaceutical products for numerous therapeutic and commercial purposes keep escalating accordingly, reaching already the increasingly polluted environment. The inadvertent and purposeful discharges of pharmacologically active compounds via excreta remain underappreciated, yet their toxicological potency on the ecosystem has become a global issue. Environmental monitoring and risk assessments have shown the sewage treatment works as one of the potential routes through which the levels of consumption by a local population can be estimated. The exposure data of trends in their distribution, biodegradability, fate, toxicity and environmental assessment can safeguard aquatic and human environment by letting the appropriate authorities involved in fighting and controlling drug menace develop the desired approaches in controlling and effective monitoring of emerging pollution challenges.