This is damned scary.

[unixronin]

BBC news reports that so many people are taking Prozac that it's building up in rivers and groundwater, contaminating the English drinking water supply with Prozac.  The Drinking Water Inspectorate of course says it's unlikely to pose a health risk, but I'd say it's cause for concern....

This comes after findings in April this year that when studies withheld by the drug companies were taken into account as well as those they published, the risks outweighed the benefits for all SSRI antidepressants but fluoxetine (Prozac).

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[robbat2.livejournal.com]

but of course the fish are too happy to care about the pollution.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

....Until the pond snails go postal.

I dunno...

[arasirsul.livejournal.com]

Seems that ADD is the disease of the month, where everyone who's ever had the least problem focussing on something dreary and boring gets diagnosed with it... so everyone's got it, may as well put prozac in the water supply so everyone's well adjusted. :)

-JDF

Re: I dunno...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's one way to achieve the psychiatric profession's dream of universal dystopia and everyone in treatment....

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

Ahem. That study found that the risks outweighed the benefits for all non-fluoxetine SSRIs in children. They are still considered safe for adults. That's an important distinction.

And while ADD is certainly overdiagnosed, and often overtreated even when the diagnosis is accurate, it's also quite real. I've know my share of kids with it, and for them the drugs are a miracle, not a narcotic.

Let's not throw the baby out with the Prozac-laden bathwater, eh?