What is a Pharm Party? Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse

A time tested drug culture is on the rise among teens that may further influence their younger siblings and it’s called Pharming (farming) which is slang for pharmaceutical. This is the leading path which walks kids down the road to Pharmaceutical Drub Abuse. Teens are gathering in both big and small numbers for Pharm Parties, which could be happening in your own home. If you think this couldn’t happen think again. It’s true, it’s rising in popularity among teens and you need to be in the know to keep your teen’s safe avoiding substance abuse and addiction.

Considering the difficulty adults have admitting it could touch their family is dangerous because it sets the stage for an innocent teen to think just this one time won’t hurt. Well it can and the peer pressure is great. Any unprepared kid lacking prescription drug facts is prone to think it’s harmless. Prevention can keep you from later seeking intervention and treatment. Protecting you and your child with the power of knowledge will eliminate future rehab, detox and recovery from drug abuse by taking a good honest look at this troubling reality on the rise.

SWAP PARTIES
Teens spontaneously commonly gather whenever a place comes available, this is not rare. While you may have hung out with friends at an arcade after school, your kids may be pharming. There are numerous latch key kids who have regular access to parentless homes while still at work. They gather there experimenting with prescription drugs. Where do they get them you may wonder, everywhere that’s where? It’s the hunt for drugs that is part of the fun challenge a sport if you will. Discarded or forgotten prescription drugs are found in the houses of family, friends and your own home. Teens pocket handfuls of prescription drugs left in medicine cabinets, bathrooms, old purses, suit cases, carry on luggage and on it goes as these kids get better at the hunt, the game!

WHAT DRUGS
OxyContin is a popular drug that kids compare to heroin. The drug is crushed and then injected, snorted and often blended with marijuana as the drug stakes continue to rise. Oh and yes, Ritalin is commonly used and compared to speed in people who do not medically require the drug. It is more commonly referred as skippy and most often taken orally. Teens are expected to score more drugs as the swapping of drugs done at pharming parties creates a debt between them and the other kids who provide them with drugs. A bond is formed and a cult like band of drug addicts takes hold and develops.

DRUGS
These drugs are easily available the demand to find them is too great and bigger than you know, kids get creative. They do so with a great ease as few parents imagine this could be happening to their otherwise bright and gifted child.
• Keep all prescription drugs under lock and key.
• Keep track by marking on the bottle what’s left after each dose.
• Open a dialogue anytime a teaching moment presents itself.
• Don’t be harsh, just matter of fact.
• Point out commercials and the adverse side affects.
• Mention you’ve heard about pharming.
• Explain the damage from popping pills.
• Let your child know they are valuable and have a bright future.

If your kid shows special interest in prescription drugs consider it a red flag. It may mean a friend has talked to your child about trying it. This child may be abusing these drugs. Give you kid the facts and do so casually, without alarm or lecture, kids tune lectures out. Remember the teachable moments. Pharming and Prescription Drug Abuse awareness teamed with knowledge empowers you and your teens to be drug free.

Hemorrhoid Causes and Treatment by Natural Remedies and Pharmaceutical Drugs

This article aims to explain the basic physiology of the Colon, Rectum and Anus. The causes of hemorrhoids will be described. Treatment by pharmaceutical drugs and creams will be described. Natural relief from hemorrhoids has been used for many years and some of these will be described.

Basic Physiology Of The Colon, Rectum And Anus

The colon is basically a muscular hollow tube made up of seven parts. The Cecum follows on to the Ascending colon, this in turn goes to the Transverse colon, this in turn goes to the Descending colon. This then forms into the Sigmoid colon then the rectum and then the anal canal (anus).

Rectum: The rectum is a thick muscular tube that starts at the sigmoid colon and ends at the anal canal. The mucous lining of the rectum is basic Epithelium.

Anus: The anal canal is the last part of the digestive tract and is around 1 inch long. The anal canal begins at the rectum and ends at the anus. The anal canal has two bands of muscle the internal anal sphincter near the rectum, and the External anal sphincter at the anus.

Causes Of Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids are caused by the swelling and inflammation of the hemorrhoidal veins. These veins supply the anal canal. However, the reasons for this swelling of the hemorrhoidal veins is not clear and somewhat anecdotel. Many theories have been made such has straining to have a bowel movement, constipation, and a low fibre diet. Pregnancy is one area where hemorrhoids are common. This is thought to caused by an increased blood flow to the hemorrhoidal veins supplying the anal canal.

Treatment Of Hemorrhoids By Pharmaceuticals

Hydrocortisone Supposiories: These are inserted into the anus (usually after a bowel movement) and relieve the inflammation. Hydrocortisone can cause many side effects, including thinning of the skin.

Proctosedyl: This is an ointment that is inserted into the anus with a perforated nozzle to enable the ointment to reach a large area. Proctosedyl contains hydrocortisone, a local anaesthetic Cinchocaine hydrochloride. Proctosedyl can have side effects including difficulty in breathing, difficulty swallowing, amongst others. There are many Ointments for hemorrhoids most treating the same symptoms of pain, bleeding and inflammation.

Hemorrhoids can, in severe cases, be treated by surgery. This article is not going to describe this.

The Treatment Of Hemorrhoids By Natural Means

Butchers Broom: Ruscus aculeatus helps decrease inflammation and strengthen blood vessels. It is usual o take it as a tea 3 times per day.

Dandelion: Taraxacum officinale when eating either the roots or young leaves acts as a mild laxative. This helps hemorrhoids because has shown earlier constipation may be a precursor to hemorrhoids.

Fluoride of Lime: Calcarea fluorica can be a remedy for bleeding hemorrhoids and skin cracks in the anus.

Ginkgo: Ginkgo biloba helps reduce inflammation and strengthen blood vessels. Ginkgo is usually taken in capsule form.

Horse Chestnut: Aesculus hippocastanum works primarily on the lower bowel and can help with hemorrhoids, pain, and bleeding.

Witch Hazel: Hamamelis virginiana is an astringent and can stop bleeding. This should be applied after each bowel movement, but should not be used internally.

Diet: It has been found that a high fibre diet can help hemorrhoids by reducing constipation and therefore straining for a bowel movement. Blackberries, Blueberries, and Cherries contain high levels of Proanthocyanidin and anthocyanidin and these have been found to help hemorrhoids heal and prevent future ones forming.

It would appear that having a well balanced diet containing whole grains, fruits, and vegetables will lower the chance of constipation, which may in turn reduce the chance of hemorrhoids.

Natural Therapies vs. Pharmaceutical Drugs: The Politics of Surviving Cancer

It is understandable that a medicinal drug having undergone double blind studies, several years of research, and millions of dollars spent on that research, should have a place of credibility. But what if the entire system was flawed to begin with, money and time wasted on treating a symptom rather than working to find a cure or better yet, prevention of the disease? Or what if the system was more than flawed but in many cases left the person in a less healthy state after having completed treatment using a pharmaceutical drug? With all of our knowledge about how the human body works, knowing its intolerance of unnatural elements, why are we, as medical patients, so accepting of the idea that we should be treating ourselves with synthetic drugs that are virtually poison to our body? To relieve one symptom we acquire two or three new symptoms, a new chronic condition we need to deal with and, of course, another prescription medication to fill each month.

Of course, those involved in the area of holistic medicine can never claim to prevent, cure, or treat a disease, even if that is the intended outcome and regardless of the numerous individuals finding themselves to be in a state of improved health. Only drug companies can make such claims. In fact, they own those words. Whether or not that right is deserved is irrelevant. It is worth noting that most natural supplements have endured centuries of product testing.

Because of my interest in finding a holistic approach to addressing cancer, I recently came to distribute a product called Natural Cellular Defense which is a patented liquid detoxification product made from zeolite technology, marketed by the company of Waiora. Initially it was being researched as a cancer drug, however, because it is all natural, it was instead introduced to the market as a supplement. Studies show Natural Cellular Defense has the ability to remove heavy metals and harmful toxins in a safe and effective manner as well as activate the p21 tumor suppressor gene in cancerous cells. It also happens to be 100% non-toxic and is completely safe for all ages. This natural health product alone could conceivably help alleviate the toxins and waste accumulating in the average person, responsible for many chronic diseases. But no matter how many people are helped by taking this natural supplement, we make no claims. It is not a drug.

For years I have been frustrated by the radical and harmful techniques employed when treating tumors in cancer patients and would like to see non-toxic methods given greater attention and legitimacy. There is also far too much time and effort placed on detection rather than prevention of the disease. Prevention is the key, not detection. Detection means the disease has had a chance to manifest itself and take hold. At the very least we should not be poisoning a body with toxic drugs once a diagnosis has been made.

Here is the list of potential side effects of chemotherapy and you be the judge as to whether this sounds like a viable treatment option: Low hemoglobin, low white blood cells, low platelets, infection, need for blood transfusion, need for platelet transfusion, pain, nausea, vomiting, hair loss, skin injury, heart damage, lung damage, liver damage, kidney damage, loss of hearing, small stature, hormonal problems such as low growth hormone or low thyroid hormone, infertility, second cancer, intellectual decline, worsening of neurological symptoms, ineffectiveness, and death.

To understand better the hypocrisy of cancer treatment, consider the following: One of the largest and most prestigious cancer treatment centers in the world, The McGill Cancer Center in Canada, did a study of oncologists to determine how they would respond to a diagnosis of cancer. On the confidential questionnaire, 58 out of 64 doctors said that all chemotherapy programs were unacceptable to them and their family members. The overwhelming reason for this decision was that they believe the drugs are ineffective and have an unacceptable degree of toxicity. Do you imagine these same doctors are recommending chemotherapy treatment to shrink their patient’s tumors? Yes, indeed they are, as they must if they wish to follow standard protocol. There are alternative, non-toxic treatments available to cancer patients, but you must work to find these natural treatments on your own.

Of course, you may find a natural treatment you would like to pursue only to discover the medical profession standing in the way of implementing your treatment plan. A few years ago, I came across a story which is truly heart breaking. It involves a two year old boy named Alexander who was diagnosed with the most common pediatric brain tumor, medulloblastoma. After substantial consideration and thoughtful research by the parents following Alexander’s two brain surgeries, the parents chose for their son a non-toxic therapy, proven to be highly effective in treatment of brain cancer. However, the FDA denied the parents access to this treatment and the parents were informed by their oncologists that without their state of the art chemotherapy, the cancer would soon return. Alexander completed his third month of chemotherapy in December 1998 and died on January 31, 1999. He was just two and a half years old.

For you see, the state-of-the-art chemotherapy protocol recommended by the oncologists had already proven itself to be ineffective in pediatric brain tumors back four years earlier.

The exact same chemotherapy drugs provided to Alexander in 1998 had been administered to children of the same age with the same brain tumor as Alexander with similar results. Of course, the parents were never informed about the failure of this therapy. You should note that when the parents hesitated to bring Alexander in for chemotherapy the oncologists were already preparing to take control by court order. The parents wanted to use a non-toxic treatment alternative, proven to be effective, and yet were forced to use an ineffectual, toxic treatment.

I am afraid these parents may have been harmed twice over by the medical establishment for there is also the possibility that the brain tumor was caused by vaccinations containing Thimerosal, commonly used in vaccinations at that time and responsible for numerous cases of neurological disorders in children, such as autism, ADD/HD, and brain tumors.

Use A Pill Dispenser To Distribute Your Daily Prescription Pharmaceutical Drugs

Millions of people take prescription drugs every day for a host of health conditions, for both common as well as more complex conditions. Many of these people face the everyday challenge of taking a number of medications to treat the symptoms associated with the disease. Taking several medications may seem like a simple task to perform, but taking a pill regimen can be hard to maintain. It is important to develop a system to manage daily prescription pharmaceutical drugs so the medication can have its maximum effect.

It is common for people to take medication on a hit or miss basis, which defeats the purpose taking the medicine in the first place. Many prescription drugs have uncomfortable side effects that can be reduced over time as the body gets used to the medication. Medicines that are taken as prescribed on a regular basis can have their desired effect when taken properly.

People devise many methods to take their pills everyday, including notes, to-do lists and computer calendars. Pill dispensers are a beneficial way to organize the dosage and frequency of the medications. For instance, some medicines must be taken early in the morning before breakfast or with meals three times a day. A pill dispenser is ideal for those who have trouble keeping track of medicine or when to take it.

Many adults not only have to regulate their medications, but must also help their aging loved ones with theirs. Caregivers often play a big role in helping their parents or sick children to take their prescriptions. Some seniors need careful monitoring of their medication by the caregivers to guard against taking too many or taking wrong prescriptions at the wrong time, which could prove to be very harmful.

Pill dispensers come in different colors and schedules to fit a variety of needs. There are dispensers broken down according to day and evening, mealtime, daily and weekly schedules. All of these pill schedules can give people the best opportunity to manage their medications.

Prescription pharmaceutical drugs are not a popular thing to take, but must be used to treat medical conditions. Pill dispensers are beneficial tools that help people to organize prescription drugs according to their dosage and frequency. Pill dispensers are used to help people manage a number of prescription drugs for themselves or their loved ones so medications can be taken safely and effectively.

Cure to the Pharmaceutical Drugs

Addiction to pharmaceutical drugs is one of the most common forms of addiction practiced nowadays by people all over the world. Even after taking a lot of prevention measures, the Govt. of many countries have failed to stop this addiction. Since the pharmaceutical drugs are very important in the medical sector, they cannot be banned; and the addicts took advantage of this. The pharmaceutical drug abuse is increasing very fast due to this and it is hard to prevent this. We all know that prevention is better than cure, but when the prevention cannot be done, we have to look towards curing it.

Curing the addiction to painkillers is not much easy also. It can only be done in an opiate rehab. The painkillers rehabs provide all the necessary treatment facilities, care and comfort to cure a painkiller addicted patient. Still, some rehabs succeed in curing them and some do not. Hundreds of rehabs have grown up, among which very few provide world class facilities. Only such rehabs can guarantee the total cure of a drug addicted patient. The other ordinary rehabs can provide all the treatment facilities, but the main ingredient they lack is the care and mental support that the patients need a lot during the treatment process.

Now let us discuss a little about the care and comfort required during the drug rehabilitation process. During the opiate detox program, the withdrawal effects show up at large extent and the drug addicted patients have to pass through unbearable pain during this period. The restlessness, insomnia and other physical and mental side effects that show up during this period are unbearable for the patients. The patients go wild being unable to tolerate this pain; they need extreme care and attention at this time to overcome this pain. The expert and compassionate medical staffs of the well renowned drug rehabs provide this, so that the patients can overcome these effects and make the painkiller addiction treatment process easier and faster. Proper treatment cannot be done unless the patients become mentally stable.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water Anyways?

Wondering how pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? You’ll probably be just as shocked as I was when I found out.

Well for starters, there are large animal farm operations that dump thousands of gallons of contaminated waste water into our environment every day. Many of them give the animals different kind of drugs to prevent diseases and make their muscles bigger, which ultimately becomes the meat we eat.

On top of this, waste water treatment plants release BILLIONS of gallons of contaminated waste water into the environment on a daily basis. And because these plants cannot remove most synthetic and volatile organic chemicals (SOCs and VOCs), some end up being pumped back into our homes.

Unfortunately, we are all guilty of adding pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water. Most people think that once we consume any kind of drug that it all gets absorbed and used by our body, then just disappears. Sadly to say though, this is not the case.

When we ingest pills or other types of drugs, only some of it is absorbed by our body. The rest just travels through our body and is flushed down the drain when we go to the bathroom. Then when it gets to the treatment plants, it never gets removed!

So what does this mean for you? It means that traces of all different kinds of drugs like antibiotics, mood stabilizers, sex hormones, birth control pills, and medications for asthma, high cholesterol, epilepsy, mental illnesses, and heart problems could be found in the water you drink!

And the whole situation is very unfortunate because the more prevalent and the more dependent we become on pharmaceutical drugs, the worse the whole situation is going to get.

So what can you do to remove pharmaceutical drugs from your drinking water? The easiest thing would be to install a quality water filtration system in your home. Just make sure that it’s able to remove VOCs and SOCs.

Pharmaceutical Drugs in Drinking Water?

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water in the first place? Recently we learned that an investigative probe finds drugs in drinking water samples taken from cities across the United States, but Americans are not alone.

The same problem has been found in Japan, Canada and Europe. It is likely a problem anywhere in the world with a fairly large population. But, any small town with a hospital probably shares in the risk.

Hospitals are one answer to how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water. They commonly flush discontinued and expired medications every month. The things that we flush end up in the environment. They may end up in a river, an ocean or the groundwater, but at some point they contaminate the freshwater sources that people drink from.

That’s one reason the probe finds drugs in drinking water, but there are others. All of the medications that a person takes are not used by the body, some are excreted as waste. So, once again, it is flushed down the drain and ends up back in the great outdoors.

Another source of surface water contamination, such as rivers and lakes, is farm run-off. The run-off is a source of a variety of contaminants, including parasitic cysts, E-coli and other bacteria, but because farmers place hormone patches behind the ears of cattle to “beef” them up, it is another reason the probe finds drugs in drinking water.

Pets are a source in the same way as people are, except that they urinate directly on the ground, for the most part. If they are not flushed, unwanted medications end up in the trash can and eventually in a landfill, where they are buried and with time seep into the soil and into groundwater.

There is really no safe way to expose of anything in this society. Everything that we use ends up contaminating surface and groundwater at some point. But, there is another question. How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water that has already been treated?

Scientists say that if wastewater treatment facilities used reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration, they could remove practically all of the medications and avoid returning them to the environment. Then if the proper steps were taken by the drinking water treatment facilities, they could remove even more of the medications.

But, since the probe finds drugs in drinking water ready to be sent to the public, the facilities are obviously not doing their jobs. The steps required are expensive for large scale facilities and, of course, it would slow down production to make the necessary changes. So, don’t expect the situation to improve overnight or even over the next decade.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water and How Can We Protect Ourselves?

So how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, and just how bad is it? Well the truth is it’s getting worse each year as more and more drugs are used, and more dangerous as resistant toxins enter our drinking water.

A recent Associated Press probe finds drugs in drinking water is the latest revelation to hit the headlines. How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, well when we take medication, it goes through our system and we flush it away down to toilet and it enters the sewage system. Most people think that all the drugs dissolve inside their bodies, but a proportion always goes unmetabolized, and this is causing the problems.

Yet another source comes from animals as they are given strong steroids and at least a tenth is not metabolized and ends up in our water supply.. It is very understandable how a probe finds drugs in drinking water, it seems we are under attack from all sides!

One of the things I read that outraged me the most is the fact that the federal government doesn’t require any testing and hasn’t set safety limits for drugs found in drinking water! Trust me, hard to believe but true, even with everyone asking the question how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water. Our treatment plants are not able to remove these drugs or many of the other potent ones, leaving us at risk of long-term health problems.

The main reason is that it is just not cost effective enough for them to purify all of our water as only a tiny amount is used for drinking.

Another point to remember is that when showering for example, you can absorb over twice as much toxins as you would if you drank water. It’s not just a matter of how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, but what will the long term effects of that be on us? Trouble is no-one knows and no-one is doing a long term study on that either, it seems.

We need to protect ourselves these days, and the most popular way is by investing in a good home filtration unit. That way when the next probe finds drugs in drinking water, you won’t have to worry. The most effective ones use multi-stage filtration, and an activated carbon sub micron filter to get rid of 99% of all contaminants, including all prescription drugs. Read the manufacturers Performance Data Sheet to check exactly what they can get rid of.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? What is the Corrective Action?

Thanks to the ongoing studies and researches, which have brought another revelation fact about the presence of pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water comes out of our taps. Studies have proven that the water we drink consists of many pharmaceutical drugs like pain reliever, anti-depressant, antibiotics, etc.; obviously, whose consumption is not good for us.

So, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water anyways?

Well, the reason behind this unpleasant truth is the fact that we have finite supply of water. Around 10% of water we use has been recycled. Any toxic material that has entered water source will in due course time end up in someone’s tap. Let us take a closer look.

People take medications to treat their illness. Since, the body absorb only some percentage of these pharmaceutical drugs, the remaining is passed on to their bowel from where they are thrown out of body via urination mechanism. You might be surprised to know that even sewage pipes (of course after treating water once) are dumped into the water reservoirs, streams and rivers.

This river may be a source for drinking water for some community. The water undergoes the filtration mechanism again and is then piped to people’s home. Few of the chemicals are removed during this process. However, what about the remaining drugs? They are still the part of water that comes out of your tap. However gross this may sound but this is the truth!

Other reasons for presence of drugs in drinking water are flushing of expired medicines in the toilets and usage of hormones for the animals in farms – animal waste still contains some traces of hormones given to them.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? Probes Tell Us

Have you ever wondered how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? When I heard the announcement stating that a probe finds drugs in drinking water I was hardly surprised. After all, what haven’t they found in our reservoirs?

So, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? The biggest suppliers of drugs to our drinking water system are surprisingly enough all of the hospitals and clinics around the country whose preferred method of disposal seems to be flushing outdated medicines down the toilet.

It is no wonder that a probe finds drugs in drinking water with unsafe practices such as this occurring. The frightening thing is that it is the pharmaceutical companies themselves that suggested that the drugs be disposed of in this manner. Who in their right mind would have thought that this was a good idea?

So now that we have established that it is mainly careless disposal that is the answer to the question how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, what action is the EPA going to take in order to protect the American population from this latest impurity in our reservoir system? They are doing absolutely nothing.

When you heard the news that a probe finds drugs in drinking water, were you really expecting that the EPA was going to be able to do something about it except add these drugs to the ever growing list of chemical contaminants found in our drinking water? They will just set a “safe” limit on the amounts that can be present, then forget about the whole thing.

Was it ever reported that the EPA had even put thought into how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? They were not the ones who even reported the practice of flushing outdated drugs, it was actually a mid- western nurse who broke the story to the media.

If a probe finds drugs in drinking water it would be common sense to think that the EPA would order a dangerous disposal method like that be stopped, but nothing ever came of it. The practice still continues today, because the argument is that you don’t want outdated medications going to landfills where “they could fall into the wrong hands.

The water treatment facilities are not equipped to be able to remove any of the drugs from our drinking water once they have become diluted just as they can’t block virtually any other chemical, so what do we do? If I was you I would go out of my way to buy a home water purification system in order to protect my family’s health and welfare.

You simply cannot let this torrent of contaminants continue to threaten the safety of your family. Action must be taken on your part so that your children aren’t constantly ingesting morphine mixed with octane boosters. Now that we know the answer to how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water it is time to take action to make sure that they cannot affect our lives.

The Age-Old Question “How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water” is Really Nothing New

The fact that drugs get in our drinking water is so alarming. It makes things like toxins in water seem like old threats. But today, water supplies across the country have trace element of drugs. This discovery is causing experts and ordinary citizens to ask the question: how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?

When a probe finds drugs in drinking water, it sets off all kinds of bells and whistles. The first area of concern for most people is how the drugs end up in their drinking water. The next thing people need to realize is that not all of the drugs they take stay in their bodies. When drugs are ingested or injected into our body, we do not necessarily use all of the drugs. These excess drugs get flushed out in urine and feces.

Some say this is a good thing since pharmaceuticals can overpower your system. On the other hand, it’s not welcome news for the ecosystem. These drug elements find their way into our streams, rivers and other water systems, as well as into our municipal water treatment facilities.

As you might know, addressing the quality of tap water is nothing new. But the newest threat of drugs in our waterways is just one more to add to our already tainted water. But simply asking “how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water” is not enough. The more urgent problem lies in the fact that such drugs are not easily filtered out of our drinking water.

When a scientific probe finds drugs in drinking water, it usually reveals what levels and what type of drugs. A study by the Associate Press, for example, found low levels of drugs from over-the-counter medications to highly potent narcotics. Still some say that even in small doses, the pharmaceuticals are toxic to the body. The main reason for this is the fact the people might be ingesting them over a continuous period of time.

No one knows just yet what this long-term exposure will do. The problem of drugs in water is growing rapidly worldwide. In the Unite States alone, traces of drugs are found in most sources of drinking water.

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water supplies? Review the following to brush up on the different types of water sources and their safety:

Underground aquifers supply around 40 percent of the drinking water in the United States. Sadly, drugs can seep into aquifers even in rural areas.

Well-water is not controlled by public water treatment facilities. People dig wells and have the misguided faith that this is a totally safe way to collect healthy drug-free water.

By and large, bottled water suppliers do not test water for the presence of drugs.

Lastly, don’t be fooled by some water purification devices and companies. Some ineffective home filtration systems do not filter out all the harmful chemicals and drugs in water and can also become contaminated with drug by-products. Click on my bio and find out the home filtration systems that do.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? What Can You Do?

You’ve likely seen the headline by now, or one like it; “Probe finds drugs in drinking water”. Recent scientific research has indeed found a wide variety of pharmaceuticals in our water, from sedatives to painkillers, from sex hormones to antibiotics. There are a plethora of drugs in our water supply.

Are Small Doses of Pharmaceutical Drugs Really Harmful?

The question remains for many, “how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?” While a small amount get into the water from runoff of pharmaceutical plants and flushed pills, the majority of the drugs actually come from human waste. When we swallow a pill, only a small portion of it is absorbed into the bloodstream. The remainder is sent through the digestive system and leaves our bodies as waste.

While the levels of drugs in our water is lower than the standard medical dose, we drink multiple glasses of water per day, thus maintaining low levels of these drugs in our blood almost constantly. This leads to an increased immunity to the effects of these drugs. This is especially dangerous when it comes to antibiotics.

What is MRSA?

While you have likely heard of MRSA, or medication resistant staph, you might not know that the antibiotics in our tap water are one of the three leading causes for the sudden rash of outbreaks of these infections. Due to increased tolerance for antibiotics, people are becoming unable to use antibiotics to fight off serious infection, which is dangerous and can be fatal. This is worst in children, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems such as hospital patients.

Will a Water Filter Actually Protect Me From Drugs in the Water?

Because municipalities are unable to effectively do anything about this and do not even test for pharmaceuticals in the water, it is up to us to protect ourselves so that the next time we hear “Probe finds drugs in drinking water” we can breathe a little easier. The most effective and cost efficient solution is to purchase a home water filtering system. I personally recommend multi-stage units because they are the cheapest to purchase and offer water at a mere ten cents per gallon cost.

These units remove pharmaceuticals from water, as well as chemicals, lead, rust, and the chlorine that cities put in water to kill off certain bacteria. These multi-stage systems also leave in valuable trace minerals that the body needs. These minerals, such as magnesium and potassium are vital to maintaining health and should remain in our drinking water.

Question: Do You Know What is Coming Out of Your Water Faucet?

I hope this information serves to benefit you as much as it has done for me. Sometimes it comes in handy even to be able to answer the question ” how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?” I know when I explain to visitors why my water tastes so much better than the city water, I often end up having to explain that there are drugs present in local water.

Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water – How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water?

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? That’s has been a common question since headlines like “AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water” appeared. In actuality there are many sources of the contamination.

First, there are human beings. You might think that when you take a medication, all of it is absorbed by the body. That is not the case. A great deal of the medications pass through the body without being metabolized and are excreted, along with other waste products. In order to fully answer the question of how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, you have to understand that at least some of the waters flowing out of your taps are “recycled” wastewaters. Wastewater treatment facilities need to be state of the art in order to remove all of the traces of medications and other synthetic and organic chemicals that are present in raw sewage.

Since the AP probe finds drugs in drinking water samples taken from around the country, obviously most wastewater treatment facilities are not “state-of-the-art”. Practically all of the traces could be removed by combining reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration, but those expensive steps are not normally taken. If they remove the visible waste materials, they satisfy most of the demands made by the EPA. What is then considered “clean” is dumped into a local river, a bay or the ocean. Public drinking water treatment facilities “downstream” from the wastewater treatment plant take from the river or the bay and try to make it safe for human consumption.

In DC and Northern Virginia, for example, the public drinking supply comes from the Potomac River. It’s a long river and upstream there are numerous wastewater treatment plants, so by the time it gets to DC, it’s literally full of contaminants. It’s not even safe to swim in. According to the AP, the probe finds drugs in drinking water, ready to be sent to DC residents, which are meant to treat mental illness and heart disease, as well as hormones found in birth control pills. In all, there were six different pharmaceuticals.

But, there’s another answer to how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water. People flush expired medications down the drain. I have even seen doctors recommend that this is a “good idea”, in advice columns. Doesn’t anyone care about the environment? How do you safely dispose of pharmaceuticals? Your local landfill should have an effective method or you might want to consider donating unused medications to charitable organizations that collect them and dispense them to poverty stricken nations around the w

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? That’s has been a common question since headlines like “AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water” appeared. In actuality there are many sources of the contamination.

First, there are human beings. You might think that when you take a medication, all of it is absorbed by the body. That is not the case. A great deal of the medications pass through the body without being metabolized and are excreted, along with other waste products. In order to fully answer the question of how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, you have to understand that at least some of the waters flowing out of your taps are “recycled” wastewaters. Wastewater treatment facilities need to be state of the art in order to remove all of the traces of medications and other synthetic and organic chemicals that are present in raw sewage.

Since the AP probe finds drugs in drinking water samples taken from around the country, obviously most wastewater treatment facilities are not “state-of-the-art”. Practically all of the traces could be removed by combining reverse osmosis and ultrafiltration, but those expensive steps are not normally taken. If they remove the visible waste materials, they satisfy most of the demands made by the EPA. What is then considered “clean” is dumped into a local river, a bay or the ocean. Public drinking water treatment facilities “downstream” from the wastewater treatment plant take from the river or the bay and try to make it safe for human consumption.

In DC and Northern Virginia, for example, the public drinking supply comes from the Potomac River. It’s a long river and upstream there are numerous wastewater treatment plants, so by the time it gets to DC, it’s literally full of contaminants. It’s not even safe to swim in. According to the AP, the probe finds drugs in drinking water, ready to be sent to DC residents, which are meant to treat mental illness and heart disease, as well as hormones found in birth control pills. In all, there were six different pharmaceuticals.

But, there’s another answer to how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water. People flush expired medications down the drain. I have even seen doctors recommend that this is a “good idea”, in advice columns. Doesn’t anyone care about the environment? How do you safely dispose of pharmaceuticals? Your local landfill should have an effective method or you might want to consider donating unused medications to charitable organizations that collect them and dispense them to poverty stricken nations around the world.

You see, it is not only people that are affected by this type of pollution. Some fish swimming in the Chesapeake Bay have mutated to the point that reproduction is impossible. You can help solve the problem. Of course none of the stories bearing the headline “probe finds drugs in drinking water” mention that fact. There are home purification products that trap the contaminants in an enclosed disposable filter. But, units like reverse osmosis remove the threat from your home, but waste water is created that contains concentrated contaminants and that goes right back into the environment.

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You see, it is not only people that are affected by this type of pollution. Some fish swimming in the Chesapeake Bay have mutated to the point that reproduction is impossible. You can help solve the problem. Of course none of the stories bearing the headline “probe finds drugs in drinking water” mention that fact. There are home purification products that trap the contaminants in an enclosed disposable filter. But, units like reverse osmosis remove the threat from your home, but waste water is created that contains concentrated contaminants and that goes right back into the environment.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water and What to Do About Them

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?

Have you read about this recently? “Probe finds drugs in drinking water” – this was in the news a few days back.

A number of pharmaceutical drugs can be found in our drinking water. These drugs are very strong chemicals and can cause severe harm to our health. But how do they get in the water in the first place?

To know the answer to the question “how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?”, we have to take a look at the lifecycle of the drug.

The first stage is the manufacturing process of the drugs. All the chemical wastes of the drug manufacturing units ultimately are disposed of in our water sources like rivers and lakes.

This is the first point where prescription drugs like pain killers, hormone enhancers, and anti depressants get added into our water sources.

Later when this water is used by our water companies for supplying to our homes, they do try to purify it by adding chlorine in it. Now chlorine may be effective at killing the microbes in the water, but it cannot remove any chemicals present in the water like the pharmaceutical drugs.

Another smaller yet significant source of these drugs in the water is – the traces of drugs that our bodies secrete. Any medicines that we take, our body is not able to absorb it 100%. Small traces of the medicine are still left unused and are released from the body by excretion.

These drugs then get added into the sewage and are still present in the water even after it has been cleaned and recycled for re-use.

So what’s the risk from them?

These drugs are very strong chemicals, designed for use by people having specific health problems. Any other person taking these drugs can face serious health problems like improper functioning of the organs and potentially life threatening complications.

What to do about these drugs?

The best way to get rid of these drugs from your drinking water is to first purify it by a good water filter.

Look for one that can remove all kinds of contaminants from the water – the pharmaceutical drugs, organic impurities, microbes and even heavy metals. A filter with the combined techniques of ion exchange, carbon filtration and sub micron filtration can do this effectively and that too without removing the natural minerals in the water.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? – An Interesting Question

Here’s an interesting question; how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? Here’s another; since the investigate probe finds drugs in drinking water, why doesn’t someone do something? Let me try to answer those questions.

The sources of the medications found in the samples taken are the pharmaceutical industry, hospitals, people and animals. Pharmaceutical companies are not required to treat their wastewater. It goes to a public wastewater treatment facility.

Any traces that remain after the manufacturing process end up there. If the facility does not take adequate measures, the traces go back into a river. They end up in our bays and oceans. They have caused mutations in fish and other biological organisms.

But, that’s not the only answer to; how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water and it’s not the only reason that we have to blame the pharmaceutical industry. Drug companies advice hospitals and individuals to flush unwanted or unneeded medications.

Nurses have reported flushing jar after jar of expired medications down the drain. With the report that a probe finds drugs in drinking water, some of the nurses made a point to express their concerns, but right now, no one is sure of another safe disposal procedure.

When another probe finds drugs in drinking water have increased in number, perhaps someone will come up with an alternative. Still, there is another answer to; how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water.

Only a portion of a prescribed medication is used by a human or an animal. The rest leaves the body along with other waste products. If you take any kind of drug, you are putting some of that back into our waters every time that you flush the toilet. That can’t be avoided.

Farm animals are given hormones and antibiotics to fatten them up for market. There waste is washed away by the rain and ends up in a stream or the ground and eventually the groundwater. Dosing animals may be avoidable or there may be away to protect our freshwater sources from the waste.

But, currently the only governmental responses to reports that a probe finds drugs in drinking water have been from individual congress people and the EPA. They recognize the public’s concern and realize that more studies need to be done.

So, we know the answer to; how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water. We know that no one is going to do anything, at least not right away. So, before another probe finds drugs in drinking water have increased in number and that the levels are higher than are currently, why don’t you do something for your self?

You can remove all of the traces of medications, along with a variety of other hazardous chemicals, simply by installing the right home purifier. You won’t have to worry about how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water and you won’t have to worry about your safety. You can simply drink, enjoy and be fully refreshed.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water?

First of all, it’s a fact: many prescription drugs, plus over-the-counter drugs, have been found in public water supplies serving millions, virtually all over the United States and Europe.

The New York Times and the Associated Press have both reported on these findings in recent months, with widely printed, broadcast and webcast stories carrying headlines like, “Probe finds drugs in drinking water.”

Part of the problem is hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and doctor’s offices washing out-of-date or unwanted drugs down drains. Leaky septic tanks are another suggested source. Some 40 percent of antibiotics manufactured in America are fed to livestock as a growth stimulant, and manure from these animals is another likely source of drugs in drinking water. A small part may come from manufacturing plants, but these are the only potential sources that are carefully monitored.

Finally, you and I are a major cause of the problem.

Pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water when people on medication go to the toilet: they excrete drugs not fully absorbed by the body, plus metabolized byproducts. Also, many people dispose of unwanted drugs by flushing them down the toilet.

Water companies treat the waste before discharging it into rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and then treat it again before it enters our drinking water supplies. But our water treatment plants were never designed to remove drugs from our drinking water; they are designed to get rid of disease germs, odors, and long-known hazards like lead and PCBs. Not surprisingly, these water treatments don’t remove all traces of drugs.

Amount of drugs is small, but is it safe?

The amount of pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water is nearly always very small, usually measured in parts per billion. But many different drugs have been found in public water supplies, in endless combinations. And we drink the water year after year. No one really knows whether it’s safe to do so.

“We recognize it is a growing concern and we’re taking it very seriously.”
said Benjamin H. Grumbles, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assistant administrator for water.

What are these drugs?

Here are a few:

Anti-epileptic drugs and tranquilizers found in Southern California; a sex hormone in San Francisco; antibiotics and other medications in Tucson, Arizona; pharmaceutical drugs for pain, infection, cholesterol control, asthma and heart conditions in Philadelphia; carbamazepine, a mood stabilizer, and a metabolized byproduct of angina medication in Northern New Jersey.

It’s not just public water systems that suffer from drugs in drinking water. Pharmaceutical drugs have been found in private wells, too. Bottled water is also affected. Bottlers do not test or treat for pharmaceuticals, and 40 percent of bottled water is just repackage tap water.

The good news: You can take practical, cost-effective action

Here are some reasonable things you can do:

1. Avoid bottled water. At a cost ranging from just under a dollar up to $10 a gallon, it’s the world’s most expensive answer to pharmaceutical drugs found in drinking water. More than 80 percent of the bottles end up in landfills; chemicals leach from the plastic bottle into the water and may affect our health; and the petroleum used would fuel about 100,000 cars each year. Even then, it’s not a solution: nearly half is just bottled tap water, as noted above.

2. Don’t flush unneeded drugs down the toilet. If possible, treat them as you would unused paint or household chemicals and turn them into a local center to be disposed of, often by incineration. At worst, wrap them up and put them in the garbage.

3. Don’t use deodorants or other personal care items containing the antibiotic triclosan.

4. Consider organic meats, raised without a diet of antibiotics.

5. Consider a quality home water filter, then bottle your own water if you wish. Use a glass container or one of a few water bottles on the market that aren’t plastic.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? The Answer is Here

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? Did this question cross your mind after the recent release of an AP investigative report on the subject?

Before the story, I never thought about what was in the water that I was drinking. I felt safe. The only time I ever worried about the water that I drinking was when we had a severe storm and a boil water order was issued.

But, after seeing that headline flash on the TV screen, I knew I needed to know more. Just like you I asked myself the question, “How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?”

Then I thought about it for a minute. I thought about all the places that drugs are found starting with the labs that create the drugs. From there, the pharmaceuticals reach hospitals, clinics, doctors’ offices, pharmacies, patients, veterinarians, farmers and the list goes on. I thought about how they get from one place to another. They are transported by boat, plane, car, truck, and mail carrier. And finally I thought about the billions of people who use pharmaceuticals everyday. It didn’t take me very long to realize the answer to my question, “How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?” The answer is a simple one. We put them there.

Drug recalls, expired drugs, defective drugs all have to go somewhere. They end up in landfills or flushed down the drain. We do it in our homes. If we have expired or left over medicine, what do we do with it? We put it in the trash; rinse it down the drain or flush it down the toilet. No matter which method is chosen the drugs eventually end up in the water It really is a wonder that we don’t read more articles with the headline: probe finds drugs in drinking water.

But, answering the question, “How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?” wasn’t enough for me. I wanted to know how I could protect my family.

I ran out and bought a case of bottled water But, then I discovered that the water that I had bought was tap water in a bottle. In fact, I discovered that most bottled water is tap water This definitely wasn’t the right choice.

I didn’t want to have to worry ever again if I read: “Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water” in my local newspaper. So I checked out getting a water filtration system for my home.

There were a lot of different water filtration methods available. I found distillers, reverse osmosis systems, carbon-ion systems etc.; but which one was right for me?

I checked them out and discovered that the carbon-ion filtration method did the best job when it comes to making sure that the drugs found in our drinking water will not reach my children’s lips.

The carbon-ion filtration method is twofold. First the thick carbon block filters the water so any bacteria, chemical, or other sediment is trapped. The ion exchange acts to render the drugs and other chemicals found in water inert.

Do You Have A Pharmaceutical Drug Deficiency? Big Pharma Hires Mad Scientists To Say You Do

If You Heed The Hype Of The Drug Manufacturing Industry, You Will Begin To Believe You Were Born With A Pharmaceutical Deficiency

If you listen to the pharmaceutical representatives and the majority of physicians you will soon be led to believe that you have a “patented” chemical deficiency, which you inherited from birth, and which can only be remedied through statin drugs. Please be aware that the word “patented” should be a reminder to you not to leave your VISA card at home (your gonna need it) when visiting your family drug pusher — excuse me — doctor.

Although statin drugs have been shown to have an almost zero percent success rate and although these patented chemicals come equipped with very undesirable side effects such as muscle weakness, diabetes, heart attacks and even death, nevertheless these abominations are pushed as miracle drugs. You see, the so-called scientists who make outrageous claims about these “miracle drugs” are actually funded by the pharmaceutical companies who manufacture them. These pawns of Big Pharma might be wearing a white jacket, nevertheless they are anything but true scientists, although they might actually boast the academic credentials. As a matter of fact, their research is rigged to avoid finding any problems with the drugs they are being paid to sanction and promote.

Some of these statin drugs produce profit margins of over 500,000%! Let me spell that out for you in case you think I added a zero or two by mistake. I said five hundred thousand percent! Do you see why this gazillion dollar industry does not fund scientists who might actually believe that Americans don’t have a pharmaceutical drug deficiency, but rather a vitamin deficiency caused by a lack of proper nutrition. I mean, how much does it cost to go down to your local Farmers Market and buy some organic fruit, vegetables, and greens? More importantly because these foods grow in the soil and therefore cannot be patented yet (this will surely change when genetically modified food becomes our only source of nutrition) since the pharmaceutical giants have not found a way to capitalize monetarily on good nutrition as a means of health and healing, antioxidant rich foods such as fruits and vegetables will not be touted as medicine unlike their laboratory made statin drugs. Until they have found a way to make a five hundred thousand percent profit on natural healing don’t expect them to champion the benefits of this common sense approach.

Do you see why the industry’s paid lackeys (scientists) don’t even blush when they are filling us with lies while at the same time making a mockery of something as honorable as true science? True science seeks answers as to how the universe functions. So-called “science” funded by big industry seeks to cover up anything that might hinder sales and the bottom line. It accentuates the positive even if the positive is really not there, and ignores the negative altogether.

Statin drugs with their almost zero percent success rate and their fearful side effects have never been able to match what natural remedies such as Vitamins A, C, E, selenium, and beta-carotene from food sources can accomplish in terms of healing for your body, and they never will. It matters very little if the criminals at the FDA deny true medical doctors the right to prescribe sources of vitamins as medicine nor does it change the fact that these natural remedies heal. I am sorry to say it but it takes an utterly brainwashed individual (shame on Big Pharma) or a blithering idiot (shame on you) to believe that a mad scientist in a laboratory can make a synthetic drug that can perform better than the real thing. Yet we are asked — TOLD — to believe this every day. That is why Americans continue to make the big drug companies ridiculously wealthy and they do it with a large percentage of money that could and should be spent on the welfare of their own families.

If you are one who continues to allocate a large percentage of your income to the drug pushers for the privilege of swallowing every statin drug, antidepressant, vaccine, or new chemical that the big drug company’s mad scientists are paid an extremely high rate of income to dream up and then produce in their Frankenstein type laboratories, you should also be prepared to eventually give them your life savings because they won’t stop until they have it. On the bright side, however, if you continue to eat these man-made poisons while shunning fresh organic fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds you won’t live for very long anyway. But while you live (even if it is a painful existence) you will certainly pay the piper and you will pay dearly.

In closing I would like to make something perfectly clear. Although your body may actually be starving for vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, nevertheless you do not now, nor have you ever had a pharmaceutical drug deficiency! So why not quit giving away your paycheck every week as though you do?

I am passionate about health issues, and the state of the health of our wonderful America. I believe the American diet is literally killing us and that a steady flow of money and perks from the meat, egg, and dairy industries to the U.S. government is the reason we have had a long sustained brainwashing campaign that has precipitated the shift from a predominantly plant-based diet to an animal-based diet. The result has been an unprecedented increase in heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancers of all varieties. I believe Americans are suffering from a lack of truthful information concerning our diets. I enjoy writing motivational articles that will help to correct the problem regarding this lack of information and also examine the prevailing misinformation in the light of truth.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Our Drinking Water?

If you have been following the unfolding case of drinking water contaminants, you may have heard about the E.P.A.’s findings that suggest that pharmaceutical drugs have been found in a number of major water sources across America. But how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? The question must be approached from a number of different angles, beginning with an understanding of the function of municipal water filtration, how such purifying plants operate, what they can, and can’t do, and ultimately, the ramifications for someone who may be in contact with these drugs.

Nowadays the data is rock solid for the threat of pharmaceutical drugs. Unfortunately, getting the technological changes in place that will secure citywide security is a difficult matter. One day a probe finds drugs in drinking water, and the next a city’s officials are swearing up and down that no such threat exists. Raw data is being exposed that show that pharmaceutical drugs have a lasting presence in our water supplies, but the necessary steps are simply not being taken.

In regard to the question of how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, the answer, simply, is through us. A large percentage of the drugs we take, from antibiotics to antidepressants, birth control and hormone treatments, pass through us into circulation in our water system.

This would be a non-issue if our current city water purification processes had the ability to effectively deal with these contaminants. Unfortunately, this is not the case. So, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water after moving into a purification system? In this case, it is a matter of molecular density, and temperature resistance. While most contaminants can be controlled through either a sterilization process or a fine filtration system, these pharmaceutical residuals are both hardy enough to survive the harsh treatment, and smaller than the water molecules that are being strained for impurities.

One bit of good news in this case is the fact that at-site water filtration provides an effective solution to this issue. The best systems utilize a multi-stage carbon-based filtration system that does not permit any pharmaceutical drugs through. Ultimately, it is not just a matter of how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, but a case of how best to prevent them from affecting you, or your family.

The Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel and the FDA

According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Association of Physicians and Surgeons, and even the Center for Diseases Control’s own admission, well over 100,000 people in this country die each year from “properly” administered prescription drugs. This is absolutely shocking!

One study has shown that more than two million American hospitalized patients suffered a serious adverse drug reaction (ADR) within a 12-month period and of these, over 100,000 died as a result. Likewise, roughly 36,000,000 adverse drug reactions are reported annually, resulting in more than 33.6-million admissions or hospitalizations all from drugs that the FDA has pronounced “safe effective.”

The media is not doing a very good job of reporting this ADR crisis. Instead, we hear the constant media drumbeat about the dangers of firearms, which are currently politically incorrect yet represent a miniscule fraction of the deaths in this country. Doctors who want to politicize gun deaths should clean up their own glass houses first. The real crisis is the failing health care or more accurately described as the sick care system. There are numerous reasons for this crisis.

One reason is that conflicts of interest represent a very real problem for public servants and those entities which have relationships with various government agencies. Numerous researchers have reported that the FDA receives money from the very entities it is suppose to be regulating and one consequence of this is the suppression rather than advancement of disease cures. Consider the following:

“According to a USA Today study, more than half of the experts hired to advise the government on the safety and effectiveness of medicine have financial relationships with the pharmaceutical companies that will be helped or hurt by their decisions. These experts are hired to advise the Food and Drug Administration on which medicines should be approved for sale, what the warning labels should say and how studies of drugs should be designed. The experts are supposed to be independent, but USA TODAY found that 54% of the time, they have a direct financial interest in the drug or topic they are asked to evaluate. These conflicts include helping a pharmaceutical company develop a medicine, then serving on an FDA advisory committee that judges the drug.

The conflicts typically include stock ownership, consulting fees or research grants.

Federal law generally prohibits the FDA from using experts with financial conflicts of interest, but according to the article, the FDA has waived the restriction more than 800 times since 1998.” (1)

The corruption of undisclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies by supposedly unbiased researchers along with the staggering cost involved in bringing new drugs to market, which conveniently eliminates competition from all but the cartel heavyweights has been sparingly reported in the mainstream press. Consider one exception to this silence:

In the book a “World Without Cancer” by G. Edward Griffin. Griffin describes the politics of cancer therapy, in which he blows the lid off the all powerful international chemical and drug cartel that has dominated the direction of health care since early in the Twentieth Century in the United States. Griffin argues that not only has the Rockefeller-Farben cartel (2) been instrumental in fostering chemical based drug treatment as the basis for health care and they have been the dominant adversary against safer non-drug treatments. If Griffin is correct, who is the FDA protecting and serving? Clearly, not the consumer!

It should be noted that pharmaceutical drugs have absolutely no nutritional value, and at best offer temporary relief of symptoms while doing nothing to address the root causes of disease. Additionally, pharmaceutical drugs should be used very carefully because of the toxicity factor also known as the LD50 rating. LD stands for “Lethal Dose” and LD50 is the amount of a drug, given, which causes the death of 50% of a group of laboratory test animals. Also, it is well known that drugs can damage the liver and kidneys.

Do not forget, as sited above, adverse drug reactions are responsible for over 100,000 deaths each year plus the pain and suffering for those lucky enough to survive an ADR. The way to good health does not necessarily include the ingestion of toxic chemicals. Likewise, the reason for disease is not that we are deficient or lacking in deadly debilitating pharmaceutical drugs. In many cases, disease is the result of nutritional deficiencies and the resulting weakening of the immune system.

The recent ongoing attempt to abolish and subvert the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, which brought a measure of freedom back to consumers, in regards to their personal choices in the area of nutritional supplementation, should raise the ire of everyone who is concerned about their own health. This is an example of the pharmaceutical cartel and their political cronies within and along side of the FDA at work. Never forget, America is about freedom, especially freedom to make informed decisions concerning our own health care information, services we choose, our choice of treatments and products that we believe to be beneficial for our own health and wellbeing. See the National Health Freedom coalition web site (3)

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? Are There Really Drugs in Tap Water?

Wondering how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water anyways? Why would there even be drugs in our water? Although it sounds far out, recently in the news there have been headlines, including those about probe finds drugs in drinking water. In various cities in the country and even across the world, pharmaceutical drugs have been found in the water – it is a scary thought.

In answer to the question, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, the hospitals often have something to do with it. In some cases medications are flushed down toilets that have expired on a regular basis. When anything is flushed, it ends up somewhere in our environment. At some point it will come back and contaminate the water that we drink. In some cases people have medications that are expired, and instead of throwing them away, they think it is better to flush them down a toilet.

Flushing the drugs through the system is one way that these drugs can end up in the water we drink, and there are a variety of other ways as well. Whenever people take pharmaceuticals, they are not totally used up by the body. The rest comes out through waste and then goes into the sewage system as well.

In some cases farms can be to blame, which is news from probe finds drugs in drinking water. Many farmers use hormones for the animals. Then the run off from the farms end up in the water, including those hormones and drugs that they use. Pets that are on medications go to the bathroom on the ground as well, and there can be leftover medications in their waste.

Even medications that are thrown away end up in a landfill. Then eventually the drugs get into the soil and this can end up going on through into the water system as well. However, although it is clean how these drugs could end up in the system, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water and get past the treatment plants that are supposed to keep our water safe?

Well, it is apparent that the treatment facilities are not doing the best job at getting rid of these pharmaceuticals from our water. This means that when you run some water into a glass and drink it right from the tap, you could be drinking any number of pharmaceutical drugs, not to mention all the chemicals that can be in this water.

What can you do about this problem? It is obvious that drugs are getting through and into your drinking water. Well, the best thing you can do is to invest in a filtration system for your home that will filter out these drugs and other chemicals. This way when you drink the water, you do not have to worry about your safety and how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water. You can relax and just enjoy the great tasting and safe water.

Alert – Your Drinking Water Contains Pharmaceutical Drugs

From Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, KY in a five-month inquiry, the Associated Press (AP) discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas. Read on if this concerns you.

This problem is not local to the United States drinking water the same problem can be found parts of Europe, Japan and Canada. The belief is that the water treatments are chlorine based which can disinfect against harmful bacteria but cannot remove the synthetic drugs from the water.

Okay, so how bad is this whole water and drug deal? Well, AP’s probe found the following list of pharmaceutical drug:

Philadelphia officials found 56 different pharmaceuticals or byproducts like medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, heart problems and mental illness.

Sunny Southern California testers reported anti epileptic and anti anxiety medications for a water system that serves about 18.5 million people.

The Northern New Jersey, Passaic Valley Water Commission found metabolized angina medication and mood stabilizing carbamazephine in drinking water that serves about 850,000 people.

An antibiotic medication was found in the Tucson Arizona water system plant. The United States is not the only country that has conducted studies.

Studies have detected pharmaceuticals drugs in waters throughout Europe Asia, Australia, and Canada. Scientists have expressed concerned about the drugs in our drinking water supply. Scientists discovered that many of us are drinking water laced with traces of pharmaceutical drugs for medical problems like heart disease, epilepsy and high cholesterol.

This problem is growing.

The real problem with this issue is that it is becoming more serious because the amounts found of these drugs are growing exponentially over time. And scientists do not know the long term health effects.

How do the drugs get into our water systems?

There are several ways pharmaceutical drugs get into our water. The following reasons are the top reasons we believe the drugs made in our water treatment system.

It once was common practice for some nursing homes and some hospitals to literally flush them down the toilet when the expiration of these drugs comes to pass. Yes, can you imagine?

Another reason is that prescription drugs are not fully metabolize in the human body. The byproducts of the molecules are simply wasted out of our bodies and they go down the toilet.

It is speculation that animal waste contains things such as antibiotics and hormones that runoff into our drinking water sources.

The AP studies determined that there were traces of pharmaceutical drugs in our water across the United States. Some smaller city governments did not respond to the study so we cannot determine if those smaller municipalities suffer from the same drinking water pollution.

The major reason why drug molecules are present in our drinking water is because our waste treatment plants simply do not filter/block the drug system out. It is true our waste water system does not have the updated technology to remove these harmful traces of drugs from our drinking water.

The way drugs get into our water system is a speculation from nursing homes, hospitals flushing down the expired medications down the toilet. And Prescription drugs do not fully metabolize in the body and the waste from the human body gets flushed down the toilet. Another way is the possible runoff from animals receiving hormones and/or antibiotics.

There are alternative solutions to protect yourself from this environmental pollution. You can stop the problem right at your tap through a home quality filtration system.

The Real Reason Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water?

You’ve read the stories about medical waste like syringes washing up on the shores of public beaches. While this is alarming enough, now a similar threat is turning up in our water supplies. Drugs are being found in water supplies across the country. But how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?

Initially, individuals take drugs in a pill or other format. While the human body absorbs most of the medication, a good portion of the drug is eliminated as body waste and is flushed into the sewer system. Next, this wastewater is treated before it is released into reservoirs, rivers or lakes. After that, some of the water is treated at drinking water treatment facilities and then routed to public water supplies. But what happens is that only a large amount of the treatment plants do not effectively remove all drug particles.

You might have seen the recent headline: AP probe finds drugs in drinking water? Such media attention literally rocked the government and environmental community. It all started when the Associate Press began a five-month investigation to learn what’s in our drinking water. The agency found that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas like New York City, Philadelphia and Detroit; to name a few.

So what are the risks from having these medications in our water? While researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of slow exposure to different combinations of pharmaceuticals, recent studies have found disturbing effects on human cells and animals.

We already asked the question how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? So how do we get them out? One technology is called reverse osmosis. It removes virtually all pharmaceutical contaminants. However, it is highly expensive when used on a big scale. Plus, it also leaves several gallons of polluted water for every one that is made clean. And finally, this process strips water of really essential minerals that our body’s need.

Other treatment processes add chorine to water to get rid of the drugs. But that method has its drawbacks too. There’s proof that adding chlorine to water makes some pharmaceuticals more toxic. Some drugs, including widely used cholesterol fighters, tranquilizers and anti-epileptic medications, resist modern drinking water and wastewater treatment processes. Plus, the EPA says there are no sewage treatment systems specifically set up to remove pharmaceuticals.

With the lack of resources available to filter the drugs out of water, how harmful is it? So much is still unknown. Many independent scientists are skeptical that trace concentrations of drugs will prove harmful to humans. Such reasoning has been established because the studies conducted poisoned the lab animals with much higher doses of the drugs.

When a probe finds drugs in drinking water, it causes experts to look deeper into the long-term effects on people. For example, there’s the issue abut how the drugs and the combinations of drugs can harm humans over decades because water, unlike most specific foods, is consumed in large amounts on a daily basis.

This recent topic as of late is “how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water?” but for many decades, federal environmental officials and non-profit watchdog groups were focused on how contaminants in water. Such substances as pesticides, lead, PCBs were the big concerns of the past.

Today, the scientific community is worried about the long-term implications of this problem. The fact of the matter is that our bodies can resist a relatively big dose of medication in one shot. But our systems can suffer from smaller doses ingested continuously over periodic use. This can slowly mess with our allergies or cause nerve damage. What’s more, women who are expecting, senior citizens and those who are weak and very ill might be much more sensitive.

If you walk away with only one thing from reading this, be safer with what your drink. Look into a home water purification device or contact your local water authority to see where you stand in this mess. In fact, some of the experts feel that medications may pose a unique danger because, unlike most pollutants, because they were designed to specifically affect the human body.

Julie Perry graduated with a Diploma in Applied Science and is a fully qualified Naturopath. On her web site [http://www.healthysafewater.com], you will find out a practical and simple way to always have fresh, healthy water throughout your home. Learn more about how pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water.

How Do Pharmaceutical Drugs Get in Drinking Water? Very Easily My Friend, and Kids Drink Them Daily

This is alarming, dangerous, and scary. Scientists have discovered many of us are drinking water that’s a seething concoction of pharmaceutical drugs for conditions we probably don’t have like heart problems, asthma, epilepsy and high cholesterol.

How do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water like this! I mean, it’s almost unbelievable.

Normally I don’t pay to much attention to sensational health warnings. But this one has got me concerned.

Pharmaceutical drugs are routinely found by accredited researchers in the drinking water catchments areas of our big metropolitan centers, and yet in half of those centers our drinking water guardians don’t even test for prescription drugs before they pipe water to your tap. Let alone try to stop them.

So, if you live in New York and Miami, for example, your municipal water officials are not actively looking for drugs even though its common to hear a probe finds drugs in drinking water.

But it gets even worse, because when you ask, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water, you quickly realize that it is inevitable. Even without research and scientific probes into drinking water supplies and city administrations, we could almost predict that prescription drugs will find their way into drinking water.

So, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? It’s simple.

Someone takes prescription medication for a heart condition or an anti-depressant. Only part of that is absorbed into their blood stream and carried to the cells that need the chemicals to be healthy. The rest is passed into their bowel and eliminated next time they use the toilet.

City authorities take that sewage, treat it and pour it into a local lake or river. Where some of it is taken again, treated one more time, and piped to your tap. Few of the pharmaceuticals are removed by the city treatment. End result? You drink prescription drugs every time you pour a glass of so-called clean water.

Same thing happens with the medication vets routinely give to pets and farm animals. Animal waste goes into the ground and rivers, settles in the aquifers, and eventually some of that will be piped to your tap.

Officials are quick to point out the federal government does not require that they test for them. That there is no industrial-level sewage treatment system yet developed that can remove pharmaceuticals, so the city can’t be blamed for not getting rid of the minute traces of pharmaceutical drugs. And the amount of these drugs in water is tiny, usually at concentrations ranging from parts per trillion to parts per billion.

Only tiny amounts? Well, those tiny amounts can turn a male fish into females. Is that not a problem?

A Canadian scientist in Ontario, Canada, Dr Chris Metcalfe is finding that male fish taken from the Great Lakes and in his laboratory exposed to only parts per trillion of estrogen compounds, commonly found in treated city water, develop feminine characteristics. These minute exposures also interrupt the development of the circulation system in these fish, their eyes and their flotation bladder.

I mean, is that scary or not?

So, how do pharmaceutical drugs get in drinking water? Partly because officials do not block them.

Well, if local water officials are not removing pharmaceuticals we need to do something. Is there anything we can do? Yes, there is. Fortunately you can fit into your own home effective purification systems that will scrub out pharmaceutical drugs. Look at them and do some research.

There are fakes and competing systems out there, so you must read the performance disclosure material that reputable purification systems come with. Find out what pharmaceutical drugs the systems can and cannot remove. That is just an afternoon’s research, so do it, and install a system that will remove the pharmaceutical drugs in your drinking water.