McDermott, Sean and Behan, Patrice and McNamee, Ciara (2024) What wastewater samples tell us about cocaine use in Co Kildare. Brainstorm,
External website: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0813/1464723-co...
Analysis: preliminary analysis puts the average daily consumption of the drug to be in the order of 100 milligrams per 1,000 people per day.
Since 2011, a Europe-wide group SCORE has been analysing wastewater to estimate drug consumption within Europe. This project looks at results from 88 cities around Europe, which have applied a standardised approach to collate data on the consumption of drugs such as cocaine, amphetamine and cannabis. As of now, Ireland does not contribute data to this project
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