Five years after water crisis, 1 in 5 Flint, Michigan residents has PTSD

Five years after water crisis, 1 in 5 Flint, Michigan residents has PTSD

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220920115556.htm

"The mental health burden of America's largest public-works environmental disaster clearly continues for many adults in Flint," said Aaron Reuben, a postdoctoral scholar at Duke University who led the research, which appears Sept. 20 in JAMA Network Open.

On April 25th, 2014, the city of Flint switched its water supply from Lake Huron and the Detroit River to the Flint River and failed to properly treat the water supply to prevent lead and other elements from leaching out of the city's old water pipes. Virtually all Flint residents were consequently exposed to drinking water with unsafe levels of bacteria, disinfection byproducts, and lead, a neurotoxicant.