Leaded Gasoline May Have Caused Boom In Anxiety, Depression, and ADHD
Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel’s resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s. Scientists always knew that heavy lead was a seriously bad thing for humans to be near, breathe in, or work around. In the 1970s the…