Emillereid
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Sun Oct-26-03 04:35 PM
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Fish on Prozac? How depressing! |
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Antidepressant ingredient detected in Texas lake water
DALLAS, Oct. 23 — What could be more peaceful, more restful or more relaxing than dropping a line into a quiet Texas lake and trying to hook a fish that is on Prozac? According to a study by a Baylor University toxicologist, fluoxetine — the active ingredient in the antidepressant Prozac — is making its way to a lake in the Dallas area and into the tissue of the freshwtr blue gill fih.
BRYAN BROOKS, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Baylor said the fluoxetine most likely made its way through a waste water treatment plant and into a river that feeds into Lake Lewisville, northwest of Dallas. <snip> While he has been asked several times about whether fish on Prozac find pleasure in floating aimlessly and no pain when hooked by a fisherman, Brooks said the most important part of his findings are that some pharmaceuticals can make their way through water treatment plants and back into waterways. Brooks said the fluoxetine, and a metabolized compound similar to it, most likely made their way into the water systems from the urine of users or through people flushing Prozac down the toilet. The waste water facility was not equipped to remove the compounds, which then made their way into the blue gills, and perhaps other aquatic life....
This is bad folks. It tells us lots of folks are depressed in America. THis is only the most recent report of pharmaceutical metabolites polluting the waterways and posing an extreme danger to other life forms that share our planet. Metabolites of birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy are particularly disruptive of other species. We human chimps sure are a force to be reckoned with -- nature tends not to like life forms that get this uppity.
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Sun Oct-26-03 04:44 PM
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1. That's just the tip of the Iceberg |
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I've been a fish biologist for 30 years. I have seen the population of some fish species gene pools change for the worse because only male or female progeny develop due to birth control pill estrogens/progesterone coming out of sewage plants into coastal waters and rivers.
We discharge a chemical soup into all our receiving waters that is causing this kind of damage worldwide. It is very depressing, and our offspring for generations to come will suffer for it.
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Sun Oct-26-03 07:18 PM
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6. maybe we need better wastewater treatment |
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I don't think people are going to give up these drugs, so better waste treatment is probably the only answer. I don't know how though
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Sun Oct-26-03 05:06 PM
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Is there a link to this news report? THANKS! I am collecting for book...
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/984141.asp Sorry To understand the half of how our 'chemical' pollution is harming the earth read Our Stolen Future and/or go to http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/
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Sun Oct-26-03 05:40 PM
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3. Lake Lewisville, Dallas, TX - Damn All Those Depressed Republicans |
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