Pharmaceuticals: Boon or Bane

In recent years, pharmaceuticals have come into focus as one of the major contaminants of the environment from various anthropogenic sources which are distributed widely throughout global environmental matrices. The objective of this book is to comprehend and discuss the effects associated with long-term usage of various categories of drugs like analgesics, antipyretics, antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and their metabolites on human health, the environment and ecology. Th...