Study Finds Drugs in 13.5% of U.s. Water Supplies

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Source: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17064/1066/

The Associated Press article “AP probe finds drugs in drinking water” reveals that its five-month study found prescription and OTC drugs such as antibiotics, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen in the drinking water of at least forty-one million Americans.

Of course, the amounts are trace and really aren't a threat, but the media do like to scare you on a semi-regular basis. How do the drugs get into the water supply? Terrorists? Not exactly.

One of the primary sources that these drugs get into the American water supply is when Americans flush drugs down the toilet or sink.

Perfect - now old folks, trying to decide whether to spend their meager Social Security check on cat food for dinner or to buy prescription drugs, can just take a bucket down to the local reservoir and fill up a bucket with all their scripts.

Oh, and don't flush that unwanted Viagra or Vicodin down the tubes - just send it to me. Thanks.

 

[lkprescott]

Yeah... apparently sewer systems aren't really designed to filter out prescription drugs. I actually read about this a couple years ago... made me glad to have well water... but then that's a Catch-22 in these parts with TCE showing up in wells less than a mile from our house.

 

[susanr613]

With flushed away drugs in our water and additives in our food and animal feed, no wonder our kids are growing taller...and having more disabilities...and getting cancer....

Kinda makes you want to pack up all your PC stuff and move to a deserted island!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I'd rather move to a dessert island. At least I'd be fat and happy.

 

[wadesgirl]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling...

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I can't wait for the Al Gore movie version.

 

[chefann]

And of course, this problem has nothing to do with the fact that Americans are over medicated in general. And that's why there are more drugs around, whether they're being consumed or dumped.

 

[lkprescott]

And of course, this problem has nothing to do with the fact that Americans are over medicated in general. And that's why there are more drugs around, whether they're being consumed or dumped.

Indeed... that they're taking so much it's being.... flushed away. The irony of course is that some folks put down vitamins, saying that those who take them are just making expensive urine... well, prescriptions tend to be a lot more expensive and just as easily flushed. I don't know... I'd rather some multi vitamin show up in my tap rather than viagra! LOL...

Perhaps soon cities can market folks to move to their city based on this. "Move to LA, the water contains *insert drug here*..."

 

[SusanBP0129]

I can't wait for the Al Gore movie version.

LOL LOL !!
Oh I'm sure that's just around the corner!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Indeed... that they're taking so much it's being.... flushed away. The irony of course is that some folks put down vitamins, saying that those who take them are just making expensive urine... well, prescriptions tend to be a lot more expensive and just as easily flushed. I don't know... I'd rather some multi vitamin show up in my tap rather than viagra! LOL...

Perhaps soon cities can market folks to move to their city based on this. "Move to LA, the water contains *insert drug here*..."

If there's Viagra in the Milwaukee water supply, I'm going to get me a mug for drinking water that will require a hand truck to carry it.

 

[lkprescott]

If there's Viagra in the Milwaukee water supply, I'm going to get me a mug for drinking water that will require a hand truck to carry it.

Why am I not surprised that you'd want to tap into that? LOL...

Talk about your.... stiff drinks....


*giggle*

 

[chefann]

That was a good one, Lisa! Wish I had thought of it!

 

[lkprescott]

That was a good one, Lisa! Wish I had thought of it!

Thanks Ann! I felt not only was it fitting for the joke but the jokester as well. LOL...

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

A local Walgreen's was burglarized last night, the entire supply of Viagra was stolen.Police are looking for hardened criminals and they're searching the local woods. The DA says he will not rest until they're in jail with a stiff sentence.

 

[lkprescott]

A local Walgreen's was burglarized last night, the entire supply of Viagra was stolen.

Police are looking for hardened criminals and they're searching the local woods. The DA says he will not rest until they're in jail with a stiff sentence.

Well, if the police were at erect attention when they got their orders, they'll scour every bush and try do their best to interview every Dick and Johnson out there. *giggle*

This is almost too easy... and this thread is going downhill fast.. LOL.

 

[rennea]

Oh it's Monday morning folks....................

 

[lkprescott]

"No more blue Mondays.... ""Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays... "Okay.. so two different references but they work well... LOL.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Sort of, anyway. It does give you an idea of just how seriously people are taking this stupid report.

 

[Tropicalburstqt2]

We actually were discussing this topic in my nursing class about a week ago and they've actually done studies showing that when women are on birth control, alot of the hormones leave the body during urination & are actually causing sexless fish.

KG by sexless, I mean they aren't male & they aren't female. ---Something tells me this maybe turned around here!!

 

[chefann]

My sister used to be a sales rep for Pfizer - when Viagra first came out. I don't think it was one of her products, but she had some of the chotchkies that had the logo on them. Guess what DH got for his 30th b'day? A bag full of things with the Viagra logo on them: pens (retractables!), sticky notes (shaped like the tablets), a calculator with a pop-up screen, etc. He loved using the sticky notes at work and freaking people out.

 

[rennea]

Oh Ann that's pricelesshttp://www.smilieshq.com/smilies/happy0034.gif

 

[janetupnorth]

...just saw this thread...this was on our local news last night.

(Yes, they often get desperate for news...)


Sorry, KG, I'm sure they have just as enough Midol in the water as Viagra...won't help you much...


But the biggest joke always about Viagra is..."If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours, see a physician." Well, who cares unless your physician is a woman! Most guys would be walking around showing their friends...

Also, when we do splinting in EMT class, someone inevitably asks how to splint that area...sorry people, it is not a bone...you may get one...er...but can't splint it!

 

[chefann]

But the biggest joke always about Viagra is..."If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours, see a physician." Well, who cares unless your physician is a woman! Most guys would be walking around showing their friends...

Priapism - the side effect that's fun for (almost) everyone!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I wouldn't be calling a doctor, I'd be calling everyone I know.

 

[lkprescott]

DH and I always raise an eyebrow with that side effect as well... although I think that would be evidence that there really can be too much of something - even something good! At least it would be easy to make a point... I wonder if it could work like a dowsing rod...

 

[baychef]

If there's Viagra in the Milwaukee water supply, I'm going to get me a mug for drinking water that will require a hand truck to carry it.

I can see "Dirty Minded Ann" needs to respond to this thread.
(Just read the highlighted word and you can all figure out the rest!!)

And as far as priapism? You WILL need a doctor after 4 hours because most of us would kill you after about 30 minutes!!!! I usually say...call a mortician...not because rigamortis has set in, it is because the man will be dead!!!

My BF thinks that "Priapism" would be a good name for a band!!

 

[chefann]

That would be a good name for a band! Especially on a multiple-bill concert: Priapism, with special guest Bush. And Bare Naked Ladies.

 

[ragschef]

I told my DH about this thread and how it had me rolling in the floor. This was his response:













"Hearing the news reports of the drugs in the water has really gotten a rise out of me..."


Of course, I laughed even more!

 

[janetupnorth]

Well Amanda, what are you waiting for? I think your husband needs your medical attention.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I told my DH about this thread and how it had me rolling in the floor. This was his response:













"Hearing the news reports of the drugs in the water has really gotten a rise out of me..."


Of course, I laughed even more!

And the jokes just keep flowing...

 

[janetupnorth]

And the jokes just keep flowing...

Just make sure they keep swimming upstream...

 

[janetupnorth]

Did you hear about the skid of Viagra stolen from a distribution facility?
























The police are looking for hardened criminals.

 

[janetupnorth]

Warning...this one is not suitable for children, but I thought Ann would appreciate it:A man finally gets his prescription for Viagra. Anxious to try it out, he takes one as soon as he gets home, and waits for his wife to come home from work, but, in his excitement he forgets and leaves the package open on the table and his c ockatiel eats all of them.Seeing the results and panicking the man grabs the bird and stuffs him into the freezer to cool off.Just as his wife comes home, the Viagra kicks in and it's hours later before he remembers the c ockatiel. He runs and looks in the freezer expecting the worst, only to find the bird breathing heavily, drained with sweat and totally exhausted."What happened?" the man asks, "You were in there for hours and yet you're not only alive but you're sweating like crazy?"The c ockatiel pants: "Man, have you ever tried to pry apart the legs of a frozen chicken?"

 

[fikibiff]

Janet, that one made me laugh.