Prescription Tap Water: What Drugs Are We Taking With Our Drugs?
If you take medication with a glass of tap water, you may be getting more medicine than your doctor prescribed. A study by the Associated Press on the presence of pharmaceuticals in the nation’s water supply has identified an alarming array of prescription substances that are reaching more than 40 million Americans in cities across the country.
It’s happening as much from the drugs we take and then excrete through normal bodily waste into our sewer and septic systems, as from human, agricultural and even veterinary practices. But people also flush unused pharmaceuticals down the toilet and pour them down drains, and they get leached from landfills. While so far the concentrations have been acknowledged to be small — holding steady at a parts-per-billion or trillion metric — the spectrum of medications is significant, including antibiotics (both human and veterinary), analgesics, antidepressants, cholesterol-lowering and anti-hypertension drugs, anti-convulsants, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, reproductive hormones, and chemicals common in plastics, as well as insecticides, fire retardants and solvents. (An article last week in Environmental Health Perspectives highlighted the issues concerning environmental pollutants.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-d-braunstein-md/prescription-tap-water-wh_b_809870.html?ir=Green
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