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Prozac in UK drinking water

wembley can change in 28 days

05:30 / 09.08.04

Link from today's BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3545684.stm

"An Environment Agency report suggests so many people are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater."

So, tell us. Are you happier than you were last decade for reasons you can't quite explain?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:35 / 09.08.04

Ahh, but does prozac really make you happy? I thought it just turned you into an apathetic zombie incapable of focussing on anything... in which case it's been working extremely well on me over the last few years.

Triplets

08:27 / 09.08.04

Pretty much, you don't feel the lows but you don't feel the highs of life anymore either.

Whale... Whale... Fish!

08:32 / 09.08.04

And it sucks big time when you ran out last friday...

Ganesh

09:25 / 09.08.04

Depends whether you're depressed/anxious - and it seems to affect everyone slightly differently.

wembley can change in 28 days

09:30 / 09.08.04

I wonder whether, as in the case of birth control pills leading to hermaphrodite fish, wildlife will be affected by a buildup of other drugs such as 'zac...

sleazenation

09:31 / 09.08.04

That's it - i'm not drinking water anymore - just beer for me - its safer... hmmm

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

09:39 / 09.08.04

Happy hermaphrodite fish! My day is improved already.

sleazenation

10:07 / 09.08.04

the fish need prozac in the water after all the raw serage was flushed into the thames last week...

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

12:42 / 09.08.04

Since PROZAC is fatally contra-indicated for consumption with a MAOI, do you think I could sue the water companies for reckless endagerment of my life if I tell them I regularly drink ayahuasca?

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

12:47 / 09.08.04

And frankly what a better nation this would be if ayahuasca were prescribed instead of Prozac, and Harmal and DMT were in the water table instead of this happy pill shit from the labs of Monsanto or whoever the fuck it is that is billions of pounds in profit from selling it.

Tryphena Absent

12:54 / 09.08.04

I don't want DMT in the water. Or prozac. Yuk!

LykeX

14:06 / 09.08.04

Well, DMT would have absolutely no effect unless you're eating MAO-inhibitors, at least not on humans.

I really like this part:
A spokesman for the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) said the Prozac found was most likely highly diluted

To me, that's the same as saying either "we don't know how much because we were too lazy to test it" or "we tested it and found so much that we suppressed it to avoid a nationwide panic"

What I don't get it this: the article says that the contaminated water get into the system through trated sewage. So why not simply add a filter of some sort that can remove the drug before sending the water out again?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

14:10 / 09.08.04

I read that as DMZ and got very confused.

Sheesh. Unsafe wherever you go.

adamswish

18:58 / 09.08.04

I was happy, right up to yesterday when I got to the final paragraph of this story in the Observer when the small question of "Exactly how is the Prozac going from the medicated to the water table?" lurking at the back of my head was finally answered in all the gory, kind of guessed but didn't want to acknowledge, details.

Then I was sick...

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19:41 / 09.08.04

I always said it tasted like there was something in the water.

"It is alarming that there is no monitoring of levels of Prozac and other pharmacy residues in our drinking water."

Understatement of the year? What else did they forget to monitor?

Spyder Todd 2008

19:45 / 09.08.04

So, if that's what they have to say about prozac... let's think about some of the other mass produced drugs that are probably in the water systems of every major industrial country on the planet. Like pain pills. Or viagra. Or insolin. Or freaking ex-lax. (ok, I don't know about that last one, but...)

Char Aina

22:58 / 09.08.04

I don't want DMT in the water. Or prozac.

yeah, me neither.
call me crazy, but i like my water to be water.

if i want drugs, i'll take them.

w1rebaby

23:26 / 09.08.04

I bet that every saturday and sunday morning, the ibuprofen and paracetemol levels in water spike horrendously.

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15:01 / 10.08.04

OK then was this 'hushed' up? I looked around for a bit and found nothing else on the net except that BBC coverage, so here's my challenge if your willing to take it brave adventurer :

Find me one or more sites apart from that BBC site that has any coverage of this story.

Here's hoping.

Axolotl

15:13 / 10.08.04

It was in the Sunday Times. I can't be bothered to look up the URL*, but it should be on the Times online website.
*I know, I know but it's too hot in the office, and it's nearly time to go home, and I just really can't be arsed.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:15 / 10.08.04

Guardian report.

w1rebaby

15:27 / 10.08.04

you don't seem to have looked very hard

Regrettable Juvenilia

17:22 / 10.08.04

FIFTEEN.

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20:02 / 10.08.04

Wierd, i searched on google but i can't of put the right words in.

Still a bit shit though, there's not much there.

Thanks for the help.

I get what you mean now Flyboy, i must be turning stupid.

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