Acne Magazine

I don’t think that anyone escaped the dreary news that our drinking water in infected with a ton of pharmaceutical drugs that we unknowingly imbibe on a daily basis, unless of course we strictly drink bottled and purified drinking water.  One of those drugs that have been identified in some city’s drinking water supplies is the class of acne drugs, such as antibiotics and other drugs that are commonly used to treat acne in both adolescents and adults.

Other drugs that were identified in water supplies around the US were hormones, such as the kind that are found in hormone treatments given to women and men, antidepressants and anticoagulants, blood pressure medications and more.  The really sick part is that it is because the water purification process that purifies water from waste byproducts emitted by the human body does not include a filter for prescription drugs, instead it looks for other microorganisms and other harmful substances. 

It must be noted that these levels of pharmaceutical drugs that have been detected in our drinking water supplies is supposed to be so miniscule that it should not affect the way the human body operates.  However, some fear that after years of accumulation, these trace amounts of drugs could indeed create problems for tap water drinkers.

The amount of pharmaceuticals this country takes continues to skyrocket at alarming paces, there is no doubt about that, and the fact that there is so much excreted from our bodies collectively that trace amounts still show up in our water supplies is a scary testament to the fact that our country is too drugged!  Not to mention the fact that these substances could potentially become toxic to our bodies over time, and through no fault of our own.