{"id":588,"date":"2006-12-10T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/12\/happily-into-the-abyss\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T21:48:00","slug":"happily-into-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/12\/happily-into-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Happily Into The Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/3545684.stm\" target=_blank>&#8220;Prozac &#8216;found in drinking water'&#8221;<\/a> reports the Environment Agency &#8211; in minute doses, they re-assure us. Fluoxetine gets into the rivers and water system via treated sewage water.<img SRC=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/40600000\/jpg\/_40600203_prozac_203.jpg\" align=left> Still, the &#8220;safe&#8221; dose level of practically every drug is frequently revised and almost always downwards.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the effect on adults, writing as someone who was medicated as a child on an improvised dose of adult tranquilisers over a period of years, and having lived with the consequences, I can say with some authority that no levels of pychoactive drugs are safe for children.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, the Department of Health <a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/3570804.stm\" target=_blank>called for more research into drugs that are given to children. Around 40% of medicines prescribed to children have never actually been tested on children. For newborn babies, the figure is 65%.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Prozac &#8216;found in drinking water&#8217;&#8221; reports the Environment Agency &#8211; in minute doses, they re-assure us. Fluoxetine gets into the rivers and water system via treated sewage water. Still, the &#8220;safe&#8221; dose level of practically every drug is frequently revised and almost always downwards. Whatever the effect on adults, writing as someone who was medicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}