Friday, May 01, 2009

Mass Drugging Cuts Suicides

Good to know.

Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of suicide, a Japanese study suggests.

Researchers examined levels of lithium in drinking water and suicide rates in the prefecture of Oita, which has a population of more than one million.

The suicide rate was significantly lower in those areas with the highest levels of the element, they wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

High doses of lithium are already used to treat serious mood disorders.

(4) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0754 hrs
Foreign Affairs

  1. It’s easy to keep people happy when you drug them into submission.

    Posted by MommaBlogger on May 01, 2009 at 0918 hrs


  2. It’s even scarier:  The trend is to get away from using Lithium Carbonate due to the bad side effects on people’s health.

    Posted by capper on May 01, 2009 at 1156 hrs


  3. Brave New World - meet your 2009 equivalent to soma.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 02, 2009 at 0839 hrs


  4. I love this - I just finished rereading Huxley’s book, and had it not been for this article, I never would have understood the root cause of the Savage’s suicide…

    Bastard should have taken his soma and orgy-porgied his life away like the rest of ‘em.

    Posted by Mike Gallo on May 03, 2009 at 0646 hrs


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