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Date: August 31, 2017 at 13:31:56
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Antidepressants found in fish brains in Great Lakes region |
URL: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-antidepressants-fish-brains-great-lakes.html |
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Just think about the implications of this report.
Really now...take a minute and think about what this report is really telling us.
Partial quote: "August 31, 2017 by Charlotte Hsu
Human antidepressants are building up in the brains of bass, walleye and several other fish common to the Great Lakes region, scientists say.
In a new study, researchers detected high concentrations of these drugs and their metabolized remnants in the brain tissue of 10 fish species found in the Niagara River.
This vital conduit connects two of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, via Niagara Falls. The discovery of antidepressants in aquatic life in the river raises serious environmental concerns, says lead scientist Diana Aga, PhD, the Henry M. Woodburn Professor of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences.
"These active ingredients from antidepressants, which are coming out from wastewater treatment plants, are accumulating in fish brains," Aga says. "It is a threat to biodiversity, and we should be very concerned.
"These drugs could affect fish behavior. We didn't look at behavior in our study, but other research teams have shown that antidepressants can affect the feeding behavior of fish or their survival instincts. Some fish won't acknowledge the presence of predators as much."
If changes like these occur in the wild, they have the potential to disrupt the delicate balance between species that helps to keep the ecosystem stable, says study co-author Randolph Singh, PhD, a recent UB graduate from Aga's lab.
"The levels of antidepressants found do not pose a danger to humans who eat the fish, especially in the U.S., where most people do not eat organs like the brain," Singh says. "However, the risk that the drugs pose to biodiversity is real, and scientists are just beginning to understand what the consequences might be."...."
More at link.
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Date: August 31, 2017 at 15:31:47
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Antidepressants found in fish brains in Great Lakes region |
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I have thought about this before but more so as to the affects
upon all creatures and ecology in connection to the level
of use, dumping of + waste byproducts, packaging, manufacturing
(etc.) of over and under counter RX's, etc. It affects everything to
one degree or another and it keeps increasing.
The world is not the same, it's changed.
It's a mess.
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Date: September 01, 2017 at 15:37:26
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Aldous Huxley |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ePNGa0m3XA |
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Yes, yes, it is a great big mess and it's never going to be right again.
We're zoned out.
Aldous Huxley told Mike Wallace that in 1958.
Huxley was right.
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Date: September 02, 2017 at 02:34:40
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Aldous Huxley |
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Yes he was Shirley. Thank you for sharing I never have heard of
him before. I just finished watching the clip you shared.
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Date: August 31, 2017 at 15:18:04
From: Lynn, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Wow.. |
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Now that's a little scary. And, I wonder what the fish are feeling, literally? If fish could talk...
I keep hearing various statistics, that say up to 47 percent of Americans are doing opiates? If that be true.... that is staggering. And, all those people are pooping and peeing and that water ends up in the oceans.
The food chain... and those who would never take mood altering drugs.... are eating fish.
Drugs.... oh the glory.... not.
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Date: September 01, 2017 at 15:27:14
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Wow. You're not kidding, WOW! |
URL: https://www.cchrint.org/2015/09/22/new-study-confirms-cchr-antidepressants-cause-violence/ |
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Hi Lynn,
Long time since we've talked.
To me my link is more than a little scary; that's why I posted it.
We don't have to eat the fish.
Point is that it's in OUR water, too.
SSRIs have black label warnings meaning they can cause violent behavior in a small percentage of individuals.
Could the rash of murder-suicides we are experiencing be caused by the knowing or unknowing ingestion of these antidepressants? (We'll never know because of the 1996 HIPAA gag on information - which only protects the big pharmaceuticals.)
I believe the hullabaloo about "opiates," is a control mechanism. Opiates are controlled substances. IF MDs used them and prescribed them properly there would be no problem.
Now they want to stop the production of the highest dosage available. Who will suffer? Not the "druggies" or addicts, they'll find another "drug of choice." Those who suffer will be patients in extreme pain. That's who suffers because we have outlawed the use of heroin for medical pain relief - they use heroin in Britain for extreme cancer pain.
The real epidemic in this country is that we have come to believe that nearly everybody is mentally ill. We believe it! Hence we take the PILLS and the fish change and...so do we.
BTW: The drug of choice on the streets right now is NOT pill form opiates but heroin. But let's not talk about heroin because it comes all by itself from Afghanistan.
Namaste.
Shirley
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