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Drug consumption in our modern society has reached unequaled proportions and it is still increasing. Recent data on the revenue of the worldwide pharmaceutical market pointed out a potent increase in the global drug market starting from the 390.1 billion US dollars for 2001 up to 1057.2 billion US dollars of revenue for 2014 (data taken from statistical website). We consider this data only for their general significance, and we cannot examine the market of the different classes of drugs, but we report these data only to realize the massive diffusion of drugs in the world and the dimensions of this phenomenon. On the other hand, pollution represents another reliable problem due to its global dimensions. These two issues are not distinct, but they overlap one to another and they can influence heavily the human health. In fact, drugs and pollutants are metabolized by the same enzymatic systems, which will no longer be able to process these massive doses of substrates. In this chapter, we will consider the interactions between drugs and environmental pollutants based on scientific evidence which appeared recently on the literature. |
