Around 10 grams of cocaine are flushed down the toilet every day, according to a study of Malta's sewage system. A scientific analysis of pre-treated sewage water published by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has found that Maltese sewers contained as much cocaine per inhabitant as Porto, where drug use is legal, and 10 times the amount in Athens. The sewage analysis used technology applied in urine drug tests to identify the amount of benzoylecgonine, the chemical present in cocaine users' urine, per thousand people per day. The results showed that some 100mg of the active ingredient was flushed daily along with urine for every 1,000 Maltese. The amount of cocaine ingested, however, was actually substantially higher, as the report explains that the benzoylecgonine that ends up in the urine only amounts to around 45 per cent of the actual cocaine snorted. The rest of the drug is converted into other substances once ingested and does not show up on the test. This means that the amount of cocaine present was more than double that of the active ingredient, and when taken against Malta's population of 423,282 , including the estimated 23,000 foreign...
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