Boing Boing has a link to a BBC story describing that the Brits are consuming and… er… expelling such large amounts of Prozac, that the water tests are beginning to detect traces of the medication. Apparently, enough is being released into the wastewater, that these traces are making it all the way back into their drinking water.

Quoth the article, “In the decade leading up to 2001, the number of prescriptions for antidepressants went up from nine million per year to 24 million per year…”

While there may be a Biblical case for anti-depressants in some extreme situations, this news is evidence that the medication is being handed out to more than the “clinically depressed”. Combine the marketing powers of the drug companies with the desire that all sinners have to ignore and deny their wretched state, and it should come as no surprise when we hear news like this.