{"id":66751,"date":"2026-02-19T12:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/wastewater-testing-reveals-high-levels-of-cocaine-in-nantucket-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:55:01","slug":"wastewater-testing-reveals-high-levels-of-cocaine-in-nantucket-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/wastewater-testing-reveals-high-levels-of-cocaine-in-nantucket-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wastewater testing reveals high levels of cocaine in Nantucket, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human use of drug was found in town\u2019s wastewater<\/p>\n<p>Tests on wastewater in an upscale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a> ocean resort town have revealed unexpectedly high levels of cocaine \u2013 up to three times the national average.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the town of Nantucket on the eponymous island off Cape Cod began testing its wastewater last summer \u201cto monitor high-risk substances and opioids in the community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/19\/cocaine-nantucket-massachusetts-wastewater\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human use of drug was found in town\u2019s wastewater Tests on wastewater in an upscale Massachusetts ocean resort town have revealed unexpectedly high levels of cocaine \u2013 up to three times the national average. Officials in the town of Nantucket on the eponymous island off &#8230; <a title=\"Wastewater testing reveals high levels of cocaine in Nantucket, Massachusetts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/wastewater-testing-reveals-high-levels-of-cocaine-in-nantucket-massachusetts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wastewater testing reveals high levels of cocaine in Nantucket, Massachusetts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}