The Journal of The Stanford School of Medicine, Summer 2005 wrote:Nearly half of all Americans — 123 million people — now routinely take some kind of prescription drug, according to a 2004 report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And with the aging of the population and the growing prevalence of chronic disease, more Americans are swallowing multiple medications; 17 percent (and more than half of those over age 65) has a regimen that includes three drugs or more, with many people taking drugs for longer periods of time — sometimes their entire lives. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, as drugs will increasingly permeate our lives, experts say.
America The Pharmaceutical
This does not include agricultural pollutants such as growth hormones and antibiotics.
And, you piss away 90% of your dose into the environment.
Do the math.
These pharmaceuticals were designed for shelf-life. They persist in the environment and they accumulate up the food chain.
The time for Santa Cruz to being testing the water for pharmaceutical pollution is now.
<span class=postbold>See:</span> Pharmaceutical Pollution: What it is, and How Pharmaceutical Pollution Threatens Your Health
