Comments on: Millions In Pills - Going Down The Drain

At Nursing Homes, Brand New Medications Flushed Away

[maryphyllis]

Can our waste water treatment plants really properly breakdown the drugs that are being flushed making the water safe for re-introduction to the rivers and streams. Are the wild life, fish, and farm animals we consume that drink that water affected by those drugs???????

[doctortele]

Yes, that is a alot of supposedly toxic material to be dealt with in the water treatment systems and even into ground water. Oh, but don''t worry it is medicine and it is good for you. Many americans are born Lipitor and Prozac deficient just to name a few. This will help us all achieve higher levels of health just by drinking the water. Think of it as free prophylactic care to address your high cholesterol before you even have developed it. Rock on and keep those drug ads coming on CBS. You have got to pay Katie somehow. So why care about the drugs in the water? What if you were dumping toxic wastes in the water. Would you get a visit from someone and could you would be sued or jailed? The difference is these are prescriptive drugs that are overseen by really smart people like my peers. It is no problem, if you keep the blinders on and do not think. Just drink your eight glasses a day.

[cabkjk]

Has anyone researched a link to these drugs being flushed, and drugs such as anti-depressants and other like drugs, showing up in our drinking water. This need to stop.

[jackshdgirl]

THE FDA SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!!!NOT ONLY FLUSHING ALL THAT MONEY DOWN THE TOILET (BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT IS VERY GOOD AT THAT), BUT TO PUT A LETHAL COMBO OF MEDS INTO THE WATER SYSTEM THAT WE ALL DRINK IS TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE!!!! WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?!?! AS USUAL, THEY''RE NOT!!!!!!!!!!

[nasusnna]

It''s too bad your story was poorly researched, and repeatedly showed these leftover medicines being flushed down the toilet. There was a great opportunity to add that most of these compounds do not break down in a typical wastewater treatment plant and wind up in rivers, where they can cause serious environmental and health problems. Please make a comment as soon as possible to remind your viewers that we have to think where something actually goes when we put it in the toilet, garbage or otherwise "away."

[pjamme]

Have they not read the AP article about drugs showing up in the water supply all over the world. They should be incinerated

[jkane625]

I can''t believe the FDA requires them to flush it all...what a waste...who do I write to change the policy...it''s just sick that we waste all that medicine, when it can be donated to low income patients with no insurance, or even donated overseas...I am sure someone can use it.

[lonestar303]

Please follow this story with one that describes the detrimental effects of flushing all these prescription meds down the toilet on the country''s public water supplies.

[jdnedge]

I can''t believe they are allowed to just flush all those pills down the toilet. They chemicals that make up the prescriptions have to be finding there way into the drinking water.