By Tony DiGirolamo

A Cultureshocktv.com source dropped the bomb on my evening when I was told, 'there is another reason to be concerned about all these psychotropic drugs. They are being flushed down toilets (sometimes without even going through the human body), and very likely getting into our ground water in the same toxic manner as pesticides, etc. So far, this is being kept under wraps as some scientists look into it.”

It’s not just scientists holding down this grave, horrific story.

My source says, “Another matter that's related has to do with the birds (ducks and gulls), that have been dropping dead...

Only some of the deaths can be accounted for by predictable theories. The rest are also being studied to see what is leading these "canaries" as it were, to fall from the sky.

I don't have all the facts to this story either but it is out there and it is making my eyes bleed reading it all ... there is this:

Eureka Alert:

Wastewater treatment plants do a remarkable job at removing the bulk of chemicals from the waste stream. But recent USGS studies have shown that a wide range of pharmaceuticals and other human-caused waste compounds remain despite wastewater treatment and are discharged to receiving waters across North America. Antidepressants are a commonly used class of pharmaceuticals whose pharmacological effects may extend beyond humans to aquatic organisms present in surface water systems that receive treated wastewater discharge. Yet few methods exist to detect antidepressants in the environment, and their effects on aquatic organisms are only beginning to be understood.

It seems to me that there are lots of entities keeping this thing quiet. This troubles me greatly, our public servants and the news media ... Both are in the pockets of Big Drugs.

Eureka: Venlafaxine (Effexor) was the predominant antidepressant researchers found in wastewater and river-water samples from Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota, though other antidepressants were found as well.

You know the Zoloft commercial admits that science doesn't know what causes "depression" and frankly they don't know what their drug is doing to the mind and now we're finding out what it's doing to the earth.

This has totally widened the horizon of the dangers of these mind-altering drugs.

All of this developing…



ORIGINAL POST: 7/24/2007 at 12:27am EST