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 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… Continue reading

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 Continue reading