Drug's found in drinking water!

[Zen]

Why is this a shocking surprise? What do they think happens to old drugs?
I have three BIG bottles of neomycin I don't take anymore.
If I flush them, there you go!
This is measured in parts per billion so it's minute.

[sundial]

Zen, if I grow chest hair I know who to blame, lol.

[Tuckervill]

I never flush drugs down the toilet. I would never have thought of that. But even if you put them in the trash and eventually the landfill, wouldn't they leach into ground water at some point?

Karen

[alpinerabbit]

Aren't you supposed to bring them back to the pharmacy?
Then again what do they do?

[SadieKate]

Recommendation for disposal--
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/...07/022007.html

Efficacy and safety beyond the expiration date--
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/460159

[Triskeliongirl]

Its not just disposal of unused drugs. It also comes from the fact that we urinate out much of the drugs and metabolites of the drugs we takes as well, and that ends up contimainating the water supply. In fact I think this is the major source.

[Mr. Bloom]

Its not just disposal of unused drugs. It also comes from the fact that we urinate out much of the drugs and metabolites of the drugs we takes as well, and that ends up contimainating the water supply. In fact I think this is the major source.

And I find this of greater concern...hmmm, what's worse...I'm drinking trace amounts of prescription drugs or trace amounts of P!$$