Ireland: Psychiatrist Calls for Lithium to be Added to Water
December 5th, 2011Via: Irish Times:
A consultant psychiatrist last night called on Government to add lithium salts to the public water supply in a bid to lower the suicide rate and depression among the general population.
At a mental health forum on “Depression in Rural Ireland” in Ennistymon, Co Clare, Dr Moosajee Bhamjee said that “there is growing scientific evidence that adding trace amounts of the drug lithium to a water supply can lower rates of suicide and depression”.
Lithium is used by doctors as a mood stabiliser in the treatment for depression.
Dr Bhamjee said: “A recent article in the British Journal of Psychiatry found the beneficial uses of lithium when it was added to the water supply in parts of Texas.”
He said the Government should consider a pilot project for a town in Ireland where lithium salts could be added to the water in very small doses and examine the results.” He said there was already strong precedent for governments intervening in the operation of public water supply for health benefits by adding fluoride.
Dr Bhamjee said that a community would not get “hooked” on lithium “because the doses would be so small”.
He said: “There are 200,000 people suffering from depression in Ireland and the Government must think of new ways of tackling the problem.”
the telling part of this proposal is that it is specifically a “bid to lower the rates of suicide and depression.”
no mention of human suffering whatsoever…
it’s all about the population statistics making Ireland look bad. but let’s not forget the added benefit of having a sedated population in an economically and otherwise tense country.
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Serenity is a 2005 space western film written and directed by Joss Whedon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgWUpdztR8Y
The truth about the hidden planet Miranda and the origin of the cannibals Reavers.
The crew of Serenity find evidence, in the form of an Alliance scientist’s holographic message, that Reavers were originally humans from the planet Miranda. The Alliance government used Miranda as a testing ground for the chemical agent G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate, or simply “Pax” (Latin for “peace”). It was added to the planet’s air processors in order to calm the population and weed out aggression. The agent worked, but too well: 99.9% of the population became so lethargic that they stopped working, talking, and eventually eating and moving. They simply lay down and succumbed to death. The remaining 0.1% of the planet’s 30 million people (approximately 30,000 total) had the opposite reaction to the Pax, becoming mindlessly violent and extremely aggressive.
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There is a west Texas wine from a town known as Fort Stockton. The underground water supplies in the area extending to El Paso are rumored to
contain natural occuring Lithium. The wine, made from local water, has the opposite effect on some I have known; Aggressive, manic and delusional.
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