DM - Fish on Prozac become angry, aggressive and KILL their mates, new study finds

[edgarshade]

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 17:52, 14 June 2013

With reader comments

• U.S. waterways contain traces of drugs such as Prozac, which arrive there through human excreta
• Research shows that at higher levels of exposure, the male fish kill the female fish and the female fish stop producing eggs
• Exposure of young minnows to the drug alters their genes and brain 'architecture'

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found that minnows administered Prozac became aggressive, anti-social and sometimes homicidal.

But why put a fish on Prozac? It's not a fix for sad fish - rather, human medications are ending up in waterways and creating ecological effects scientists are only just beginning to research.

Anti-depressant drugs are the most commonly prescribed drugs in the U.S. - about 250 million prescriptions are filled every year. They're also the most-documented drugs contaminating waterways.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ry-aggressive-KILL-mates-new-study-finds.html

 

[Captain.Heroin]

This is why I say don't flush unwanted drugs.

SSRI's are really fucking evil and shoiuldn't be prescribed unless people ACTUALLY need them (I'd guesstimate only 20-30% of the people on SSRI's should actually be on them).

 

[coors light]

This is why I say don't flush unwanted drugs.

SSRI's are really fucking evil and shoiuldn't be prescribed unless people ACTUALLY need them (I'd guesstimate only 20-30% of the people on SSRI's should actually be on them).

completely agree with this statement.

 

[23536]

Is eating your mate necessarily a bad thing?

 

[Mysterie]

This is why I say don't flush unwanted drugs.

SSRI's are really fucking evil and shoiuldn't be prescribed unless people ACTUALLY need them (I'd guesstimate only 20-30% of the people on SSRI's should actually be on them).

id vote 10% tbh, anyway you know theres something funky about a drug when most ex and active gear and smack users call SSRI's the devils drug

also its sad to hear about the drug contaminations in sewerage affecting innocent lil fishies, its like flogging a dead horse

 

[Lazaraus45]

you know theres something funky about a drug when most ex and active gear and smack users call SSRI's the devils drug

^ this may be the best statement i've ever seen on the topic of SSRI's

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

Let's remember that the common ancestor of the fish and primate lived hundreds of millions of years ago, at least.

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11010-012-1533

A grain of salt can flavor the whole dish..or at last start conversation

 

[Lazaraus45]

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11010-012-1533

A grain of salt can flavor the whole dish..or at last start conversation

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[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

No problem.

Here we go http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21178384/

In layman's terms, this means its good for the brain.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

id vote 10% tbh, anyway you know theres something funky about a drug when most ex and active gear and smack users call SSRI's the devils drug

also its sad to hear about the drug contaminations in sewerage affecting innocent lil fishies, its like flogging a dead horse

Yeah I agree completely man.

I was going to low-ball it around 10% as well, but then there's the people that "probably shouldn't be on SSRI's, but would probably be dead if they didn't have 'something' " - and I would hate for this crowd to not be here today if they didn't have 'something'.