Prozac 'found in drinking water'

[Cronus Protagonist]

Prozac 'found in drinking water'

Many people choose Prozac over other antidepressants
Traces of the antidepressant Prozac can be found in the nation's drinking water, it has been revealed.
An Environment Agency report suggests so many people are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater.

A report in Sunday's Observer says the government's environment watchdog has discussed the impact for human health.

A spokesman for the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) said the Prozac found was most likely highly diluted.

more...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm


(I wonder how much is in say, Florda's water....)

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. good thing i get

abita springs water delivered

[demnan]

2. Praise the Lord! Good news for once

I really do think Prosac should be in the drinking water!!!! :-)

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. Not me

I do not want to ever be sucking off the teat of the piggish pharmaceutical industry.


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[autorank]

3. Yummy...lets get a buzz on...

From 'Water Conditioning and Purification Magazine':

http://www.wcp.net/column.cfm?T=T&ID=2199


“A variety of pharmaceuticals including painkillers, tranquilizers, anti-depressants, antibiotics, birth control pills, estrogen replacement therapies, chemotherapy agents, anti-seizure medications, etc., are finding their way into the environment via human and animal excreta from disposal into the sewage system—i.e., flushing unused medication down the toilet…”

This has been reported in various sources. If there is a contemporary equivalent to the Roman Empire's self-poisoning through lead, this is it. What a friggin mess!

[autorank]

4. HOWEVER...

If Capitol Hill Blue is right about smirk's mood swings, maybe this will help (lol).

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. More and better info in the other thread

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=736176

[bleedingheart]

6. big pharma will intervene as this will surely cut in on their profits

that or they will ask that a surcharge appear on your monthly water bil....

[Union Thug]

7. Now if only they'd follow Tim Leary's advice...

The water system would be so much more colorful

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. I'm not buying this crap.

I would more readily believe that they're adding the shit to city water and that certain water bottle companies are too. It certainly would fit in with Bush's sudden attack of compassion jwhen he approved government assistance for anti-depressants. He doesn't do anything that doesn't fit into his devious plans.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. I would more readily believe that they're adding

the shit to city water and that certain water bottle companies are too.<<

Nay nay.... it is as they say.

http://www.ngwa.org/publication/gwmr/2004-02foreward.shtml
Spring 2004, Volume 24, No. 2
Foreword

Fate and Transport of Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Compounds During Ground Water Recharge

by Robert W. Masters, Ingrid M. Verstraeten, and Thomas Heberer

[johnfunk]

10. Well, it could be worse...

... it could've been Alan Keyes's sweat

[salvorhardin]

12. This just in...

hydrogen dioxide found in nation's drinking water.

[Aunt Anti-bush]

13. Funny that should come up

since about a week ago a White House aide said people unhappy with their jobs (or lack thereof) should take prozac...

:scared:

[Moderator]

14. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=736176