You know things are bad when scientists are suggesting that we latently medicate everyone with antidepressants via our drinking waterhttps://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/24/18010592/future-perfect-podcast-lithium-drinking-water-suicide …
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Frankly I think it's a BIT melodramatic to say that not adding more lithium to the water supply is "literally driving them into insanity and death"



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I'm not sure why. I mean, that's literally what the claim is. Quite literally, that's what the possible causal effects would be.
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Pretty sure I won't go insane for lack of enough lithium in my water. Mlso, maybe there's an underlying cause for all this depression we should be treating rather than mass-medicating everyone. Just a thought. Medication without treatment of root causes is useless.
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The 'root cause' is often just genes or infections or nutrient deficiency. There was no 'root cause' for goiters/retardation/rickets: the 'medication' of adding iodine or iron or vitamin D to random stuff like salt to 'mass-medicate' was in fact the least useless thing possible.
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we're both talking about depression and suicide here, right? If not and you're talking specifically about fluouride, I still think the millions would be better-spent on providing toothpaste kids and educating them on oral hygiene.
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Yeah, I mean lithium specifically. (Although I do think I agree about fluoridation - given that the benefits seem to be entirely from topical application, why are we bothering with adding it to *drinking water*? The correlations of water/caries don't seem very impressive.)
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