Environmental contaminants are known to adversely affect non‐target organisms even at sublethal concentrations. In the last decades, pharmaceuticals (PHAR) and illicit drugs emerged as a new group of environmental contaminants, due to their high consumption, continuous discharge and consequently awareness of their harmful effects to both wild organisms and human health. Several works reported the presence of these biological active substances in sewage water, river water, drinking water, soil, air and even in biota at levels of ng/L and μg/L. The potential contamination of the environment by these substances may result from a complex interconnected map of sources that include many routes to the environment and various links between ecosystems.The aim of this project is to evaluate the ecotoxicological effects and bioaccumulation of psychoactive substances as amphetamine like substances and synthetic cathinones, using aquatic and terrestrial ecological relevant organisms.Target organisms will be the crustacean Daphnia magna, the fish Danio rerio, and the earthworm Eisenia fetida. Data will contribute to the development of environmental policy on risk assessment.
