OT: Pharmacy drugs in our water supply

[Guest guest]

News says tests show pharmaceutical drugs showing up in our drinking

water. That's even scarier than it would be normally since we know

inadequate studies are being done on them before they go to market now.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336286,00.html

http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/july00/feature1.htm

[Guest guest]

Jay Leno's makeing wize cracks about how if were woried about the water

haveing high amounts of antianixity drugs, we just need to drink more

water. hehe

on the serious side it seemed strange that the news was saying not to

flush any medicenes down the sink. ?? :{ I dont thing that how it's

getting in the water.

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> News says tests show pharmaceutical drugs showing up in our drinking

> water. That's even scarier than it would be normally since we know

> inadequate studies are being done on them before they go to market

now.

>

>

> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336286,00.html

>

> http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/july00/feature1.htm

>

[Guest guest]

LOL, Biggest laugh in awhile. " I don't care who you are, thats funny right

there "

If that is how it is getting in the water, good lord. Think about what else is

getting through. I think if someone is flushing their meds down the drain enough

to where we should be concerned with then why are we all freaking out about it,

right?

who <jeaninem660@...> wrote:

Jay Leno's makeing wize cracks about how if were woried about the

water

haveing high amounts of antianixity drugs, we just need to drink more

water. hehe

on the serious side it seemed strange that the news was saying not to

flush any medicenes down the sink. ?? :{ I dont thing that how it's

getting in the water.

[Guest guest]

funny you mentioned FLUSHING:{

>

> LOL, Biggest laugh in awhile. " I don't care who you are, thats

funny right there "

>

> If that is how it is getting in the water, good lord. Think about

what else is getting through. I think if someone is flushing their

meds down the drain enough to where we should be concerned with then

why are we all freaking out about it, right?

>

[Guest guest]

When I saw diazepam was first drug mentioned, i.e. valium, I had funny

thought that maybe I would feel better if I drank more tap water.

However most drugs are very dangerous and if we are constantly drinking

small amounts of vast array of pharmaceutical drugs it could be quite

dangerous, and yes, article said pollution caused mainly by it being

excreted by people. That would be major source rather than drugs being

thrown away. Wonderful thought of one source of our tap/drinking

water. I will be checking out a reverse osmosis water purifier for

drinking water.

>

> Jay Leno's makeing wize cracks about how if were woried about the

water

> haveing high amounts of antianixity drugs, we just need to drink more

> water.

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know how to dispose of old medications. I cleaned out my

mother's cabinet just last week before all the news about the drinking water. I

called a local pharmacy to ask what to do with them. They told me to call Poison

Control. Poison Control told me to crush up the meds then go out and dig up

some dirt from the yard and mix the medication with the dirt and throw it in

the trash!

I don't think that's any better than flushing them down the drain so they

are sitting in a box. There really should be a disposal plan in effect but

that's not going to happen any time soon and most people probably wouldn't take

the time to do it anyway. Just like the new light bulbs everyone is buying

there is no disposal process so people will just throw them in the trash and

the

mercury will end up in the landfill.

The contamination will continue until the government forces the public to do

it correctly!

LOL, Biggest laugh in awhile. " I don't care who you are, thats funny right

there "

If that is how it is getting in the water, good lord. Think about what else

is getting through. I think if someone is flushing their meds down the drain

enough to where we should be concerned with then why are we all freaking out

about it, right?

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[Guest guest]

I winder if you took a coffee can and put them in it with dirt and

baried it if ot would be disapated by the time the can rusted. or

maybe a glass jar?

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>

> Does anyone know how to dispose of old medications. I cleaned out

my

> mother's cabinet just last week before all the news about the

drinking water. I

> called a local pharmacy to ask what to do with them. They told me

to call Poison

> Control. Poison Control told me to crush up the meds then go out

and dig up

> some dirt from the yard and mix the medication with the dirt and

throw it in

> the trash!

> I don't think that's any better than flushing them down the drain

so they

> are sitting in a box. There really should be a disposal plan in

effect but

> that's not going to happen any time soon and most people probably

wouldn't take

> the time to do it anyway. Just like the new light bulbs everyone is

buying

> there is no disposal process so people will just throw them in the

trash and the

> mercury will end up in the landfill.

> The contamination will continue until the government forces the

public to do

> it correctly!

>

> LOL, Biggest laugh in awhile. " I don't care who you are, thats

funny right

> there "

>

> If that is how it is getting in the water, good lord. Think about

what else

> is getting through. I think if someone is flushing their meds down

the drain

> enough to where we should be concerned with then why are we all

freaking out

> about it, right?

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I bet poison control told you to crush pills and mix them with dirt

before throwing them away so noone else takes them. That is alot of

work but by the time medicine seeps through dirt to a underground water

table, it will be filtered somewhat and much left in the soil that

doesn't get into water. What a mess. I hadn't given it this much

thought but used to throw them in trash and put medicine vial into

recyclables. Not likely children will come in contact. Only thing I

can think of is animals rummaging around getting perhaps wetted pill on

paws.

Since plastic bags are such a nuisance anyways and supposedly stick

around for so long, might as well put the pills inside a plastic bag,

tie it tightly and put it in trash to hang around until eternity.

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>

> Does anyone know how to dispose of old medications.

[Guest guest]

That would probably work.

>

> I winder if you took a coffee can and put them in it with dirt and

> baried it if ot would be disapated by the time the can rusted. or

> maybe a glass jar?

>

[Guest guest]

hey, add a little water in the mold well eat them up. lol's

gee, I'm being cremated when I go, I had all the mold I can deal with.

> >

> > I winder if you took a coffee can and put them in it with dirt and

> > baried it if ot would be disapated by the time the can rusted. or

> > maybe a glass jar?

> >

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