Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind up in Your Drinking Water?

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind up in Your Drinking Water?

Rottzilla2 — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:00:36 GMT

I have continually called around the local pharmacies in my area and asked their policy on disposing of medications, only to be told that I should flush it.

There should be a writing campaign done to all the large pharmacies to get them to stop recommending this hazardous policy to their customers. I am going to start right now by writing to Brooks, CVS and Walgreens!

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind up in Your Drinking Water?

MLaBarge — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:50:17 GMT

There is a company that sells a blender with a mineral core. You put water in it, blend and mineralize the water. This would be a great feature to have in a home water-purifying system. If the core was replaceable, like the other filters, families could have clean and nourishing water! Good luck on your purifyer design - let us know when you perfect it.

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind up in Your Drinking Water?

bflosue — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:37:27 GMT

I've been wanting to get a 'water maker' - it's a dehumidifier that condenses water from the air and then filters it using a charcoal filter and purifies it using ultra violet light. It's pricey but I think it's a great idea. There are other water makers that use RO filters and some that user a ceramic filter. Anyone have any experience with these machines?

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind up in Your Drinking Water?

ellenrsmyth — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:13:55 GMT

My choice for water is Nikken's PiMag Optimized Water, pure, yet with natural minerals as from nature.....it is "living water" as opposed to "dead" ie reverse osmosis, distilled, etc, so your living body recognizes it and knows what to do with it........Detoxes on a cellular level and hydrates as well. Can go to www.mynikken.net/ellensmyth to find out more. The water tastes incredible and is available thru your faucet or a tranportable AquaPour system.

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind up in Your Drinking Water?

GRAYWOLF — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:35:10 GMT

Just a technical observation:

"cut down the number of drugs you take in the first place, or stop taking them altogether"

That will only contribute to the problem...you need to stop buying them.

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind up in Your Drinking Water?

Dr. Randy — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:44:43 GMT

I'm a registered nurse and a pharmacy technician. I've worked in pharmacies since 1987. No pharmacy takes back old medications. If one does because a customer is insistent, they are flushed down the toilet. Doctors and nurses regularly advise patients to "flush medications older than a year or that are no longer being taken."

It is only recently that expired pharmaceuticals are shipped out for partial credit to pharmaceutical return companies. Up until about 1999, expired medications were simply flushed.

The advice sounds good to return pharmaceuticals to the pharmacy, but the medical community needs to know about this first!

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind Up in Your Drinking Water?

Anathema — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:58:41 GMT

I've read one explanation by officials is that the detection methods (water anaylysis) are simply more technologically advanced and sensitive than in the past.

As the population increasingly descends into mental decline, they are still able to stick their heads in the sand.

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind Up in Your Drinking Water?

dfb — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:05:07 GMT

is everybody aware of the FDA-attempt to classify all alternative healing as medicine? With this trick only brainwashed doctors are allowed to practice alternative healing (which they will not do, too busy with prescribing drugs)

act before apr 30
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185

spread the word

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind Up in Your Drinking Water?

Dr. David Spitz — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:35:46 GMT

What people don't realize is, that we are an ecosysytem within an ecosystem. Just like the environment, our ecosystem is poisoned when we are exposed to toxins.

The faster you move to using only biodegradable, non-toxic household products, the better.

Instead of emailing your friends jokes...email them about the health and environmental benefits of using safe, non-toxic household products. Invite your friends to vitalvotes and tell us about any new and safe products for your home.

Of course, just as Lays is now making "organic" chips and there are "organic" oreo cookies....soon the big conglomerates will sell us their version of safe and non-toxic...to that I say....buyer beware.

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind Up in Your Drinking Water?

MarikaB — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:33:19 GMT

It looks like the message that I have posted on the other debate, should actually go here......
A multidisciplinary group of international experts gathered for a work session on "Environmental Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Neural, Endocrine and Behavioral Effects" under the auspices of the International School of Ethology at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily, November 5-10, 1995.
Consensus statement?
" We are certain of the following: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals can undermine neurological and behavioral development and subsequent potential of individuals exposed in the womb or, in fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, the egg. This loss of potential in humans and wildlife is expressed as behavioral and physical abnormalities. It may be expressed as reduced intellectual capacity and social adaptability, as impaired responsiveness to environmental demands, or in a variety of other functional guises."

read the rest here
http://www.pmac.net/erice.htm
peace

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind Up in Your Drinking Water?

Josh Rubin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:50:10 GMT

There is tons of research proving that one of the reasons most young children are reaching puberty faster is secondary to all the estrogens that are ending up in our water. This is mostly coming from all the birth control pills and synthetic hormonal replacement programs that are out there.

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind Up in Your Drinking Water?

Bridestein — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:46:59 GMT

Add this bit of lovely news from the very informative website for Environmental Working Group; The Power of Information:

Right-to-Know Rollback Will Hide 600K Lbs. of Toxics in California
The Bush Administration has adopted regulations that will dramatically roll back Americans' right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods, allowing California industries to handle almost 600,000 pounds of toxic chemicals a year without telling the public.

See the story at www.ewg.org. While you're there you can enter your zip code and see who's receiving farm subsidies in your neighborhood. Makes for some pretty interesting reading!

re: Did You Know Your Neighbor's Drugs Wind Up in Your Drinking Water?

Russ Bianchi — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:24:19 GMT

A classic case of US Fish & Wildlife Services, bureaucratically, being caught NOT DOING THEIR JOB!!!

US FWS is 'CYA-ing' with phony and not to be enforced guidelines, while it is VERY CLEAR where the blame remains, with Big Pharma!!!

Folks, this is just another example of OTC and prescription drugs that are not bioavailable, not utilized or absorbable in your body, with HARMFUL side effect excipients, that over priced now harming you even as not the user!

Did anyone really expect the same government that approved these TOXINS not to look the other way on not busting them, when polluting the environment and each and every one of our drinking water?

Sounds like another US Court of Claims status law suit, or class action, is needed from a safety or consumer advocacy group, to even begin to clean up this UNCLE SAM CREATED MESS.

Once again, your government, NOT working for you.