Antidepressant use is so widespread the wastes are showing up in fish brains
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In spite of the growing awareness of potentially horrible side effects from the use of antidepressants the psychiatrists are continuing to routinely prescribe them. The use of these drugs is so widespread their waste products are being found in the brains of fish.
The International Business Times has reported that the widespread use of antidepressants by Americans has been leading to their accumulation in the brains of fish. The use of antidepressants has risen dramatically and this has lead to their wastes showing up in fish brains.
In the Great Lakes detectable levels of antidepressants have been found in the brains of ten species of fish. Active ingredients from such drugs as Zoloft, Prozac and Sarafem have been detected in fish brains.
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Study author Diana Aga, of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, has said active ingredients from antidepressants are coming out from wastewater treatment plants and thereafter accumulating in the brains of fish. This is a threat to biodiversity.
Many fish have been found to have several different types of antidepressants in their brains. The chemicals in the brains of these fish build up over the course of time with concentrations getting much higher than in the river water. More research is needed to determine the risk which this may pose to fish and to the ecosystem.
This study has been published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Wastes from antidepressants are being taken up selectively by fish. Clearly antidepressants are being oversubscribed by psychiatrists. This threat to biodiversity warrants further investigations to determine exactly how this has been happening and how it can be stopped and even reversed.
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