Tegretol in the drinking water?

[Anasazi23]

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All over the news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_us/pharmawater_i;_ylt=Am3gEQDS2vGiXZY7Xjpbckes0NUE

I'll point out my highlight, which I laughed out loud over. You can almost predict the medication based on city stereotypes:

Here are some of the key test results obtained by the AP:

_Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems. Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city's watersheds.

Medicines for pain and cholesterol at the home of the Cheesesteak? Unfathomable!

_Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.

Drugs for rich celebrity brat wanna-be's with housewife anxiety and Bipolar - chronic Lohan type? Unthinkable!

_Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water.

Medicine for angina for millions of people living in a populated paper factory smokestack who have to commute to NYC through the Holland and Lincoln tunnels? Unconsiderable!
*Note how carbamazepine has suddenly become a mental-health med when it's convenient for him. OH! Where were you when we needed you, friend Tegretol!

_A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water.

Too easy.

_The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals.

The politicians won't release which "pharmaceuticals" were found making the journey from their collective tight sphincters to the populaces' fountains? Unmentionable!

_Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water supplied to Tucson, Ariz.

The home of the illegal immigrant bankrupting hospitals by the hundreds receiving countless prescriptions for unnecessary antibiotics? Incogitable!

The situation is undoubtedly worse than suggested by the positive test results in the major population centers documented by the AP.

Hmm...yes....undoubtedly.

 

[PeeWee137]

this is pure comedy gold, anasazi.


i think we need to start making sure EVERYONE drinks more water. straight out of the tap!

 

[Chimed]

!!!!!!!!!!!

Sazi, do you mind if I circulate this as an e-mail? That is classic!

 

[Anasazi23]

...be my guest.

If I were Spitzer, I'd use this as an excuse.

My mind was clouded from the drinking water!

If I were an investigative journalist, the next step I'd take is to test popular bottled waters, since most of them are actually tap water anyway. i.e. Dasani.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

We were kicking this around too: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=503413 I linked over to the Lithium study from back in the 80's (in the texas drinking water), if anyone is interested.

 

[Anasazi23]

I'd remembered reading about fluoxetine (Prozac) in the water in Europe. WebMD was ahead of its time: http://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20040810/prozac-in-drinking-water-likely-so

 

[Anasazi23]

From cnn.com

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/11/pharma.waterfish.ap/index.html

 

[Hurricane]

We were kicking this around too: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=503413 I linked over to the Lithium study from back in the 80's (in the texas drinking water), if anyone is interested.

Ha that's funny. Y'know, lithium used to be in 7up. "Takes the ouch out of grouch." See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkvision/249552203/