Lithium in water—Drug everybody!
This Japanese research ought to make the anti-fluoridation fruitcakes freakout—Adding Lithium to municipal water supplies to curb suicide. Let’s drug everybody!
Lithium in water ‘curbs suicide’
BBC — 2009 May 1
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… the team from the universities of Oita and Hiroshima found that even relatively low levels appeared to have a positive impact of suicide rates.
You can read the original paper in the amusingly named, BJ* Psych.
*BJ Psycho
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May 2nd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
And as usual they forgot that:
Correlation =/= Causality
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Where they spike the air to cure aggression in people? It doesn’t end well.
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:04 am
does the lithium counteract the rampant alcoholism in Japan that leads major Jpop stars to resort to running around nude in the public parks shouting in Korean and asking cops what’s wrong with being nude?