impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
Politicians in Ireland want to drug population to stop austerity related suicide rate bit.ly/tDN0Um—
(@maxkeiser) December 06, 2011
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.”
Forgive me while I copy&paste a small comment I left a few days ago on Grandad’s post about this. I think you’ll like it though as it really is fuel to the fire of conspiracy theorists:
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State issued pharmaceuticals? It’s a Brave New Ireland!
“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”
“Benito was notoriously good-natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Reality for Benito was always sunny.”
“The policemen pushed him out of the way and got on with their work. Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of soma vapour into the air.”
http://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html
# Gammagoblin on 05 Dec 2011 at 10:03 pm
http://www.headrambles.com/2011/12/05/a-happy-nation/#comment-31563
mmmm soma – I remember a colleague getting freaked out when someone called Soma was hired to work in the Asian office
It is indeed a brave new world – whats next? – mkultra coming out the back of car exhausts driving around the streets of Ireland!