GMB Host Double Take As Marine Biologist Claims Fish Are Full Of Cocaine And Antidepressants [Video]

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid needed to check she’d heard marine biologist Professor Alex Ford correctly during a report by chief correspondent Richard Gaisford on pollution in British waters after he said every species looked at by his team was “full of cocaine.”

The report from Hampshire’s Langstone Harbour found that the marine animals were swimming in a cocktail of drugs, including contraceptive pills, antidepressants, and cocaine, a consequence of rampant sewage spills.

During his interview Prof. Ford, said that a local sewage treatment facility, overwhelmed by the waste of half a million people, was discharging untreated sewage into the waters.

“The sewage treatment plant behind us takes in the waste of half a million people, and when it can’t cope with it, it chucks it out here,” Ford told the reporter. “In the marine life, we are finding they are full of drugs – contraceptive pills, antidepressants – every single marine species that we’ve looked at so far is full of cocaine.”

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