ApocaDocs: AP probe finds drugs in drinking water

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Posted Mon Mar 10 2008: from Associated Press:


	AP probe finds drugs in drinking water http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1205179466 "A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe. But the presence of so many prescription drugs -- and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen -- in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health."

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The ApocaDocs say:

Maybe this is why -- in all those drug studies -- placebos are so effective. If we're drinking water, we're already on drugs.