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European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2008) Assessing illicit drugs in wastewater. EMCDDA Insights Series no. 9. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

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This report presents a number of contributions that relate to analysing communal wastewaters for drugs and their metabolic products in order to estimate their consumption in the community. This area of work is developing in a multidisciplinary fashion, involving scientists working in different research areas. For this reason, the contributions to this publication come from a variety of different perspectives including: analytical chemistry, physiology and biochemistry, sewage engineering, spatial epidemiology and statistics, and conventional drug epidemiology.

Table of contents
• Introduction to sewage epidemiology
• Estimating community drug use
• Drug metabolism
• On the occurrence and fate of illicit substances in sewer systems
• Georeferenced wastewater sampling and applied spatial statistics
• Integrating wastewater analysis with conventional approaches to measuring drug use
• Overall conclusions


Item Type
Book
Publication Type
International, Report
Drug Type
Substances (not alcohol/tobacco)
Date
2008
Call No
REF, EMCDDA
Pages
100 p.
Publisher
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Corporate Creators
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Place of Publication
Luxembourg
ISBN
978-92-9168-317-8
EndNote
Accession Number
HRB 4470 (Available), HRB 4471 (Available)
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