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Re:The Most Popular Drug in America Is an Antipsychotic by 6581 on Saturday November 15, 2014 @06:08PM (#8612906)
That is highly disputed - there is only one study suggesting a correlation (not causation).
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Re:The Most Popular Drug in America Is an Antipsychotic by duckingtest on Saturday November 15, 2014 @06:27PM (#8612956)
The causation is simple - hypericin becomes toxic when activated by light. While that doesn't mean that it definitely causes cataracts, given available data I think it's more likely that it does.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16814590 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19739671

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