Monitoring of illicit drug consumption via wastewater: development, challenges, and future aspects

S Mercan, M Kuloglu, F Asicioglu - Current opinion in environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for the evaluation of … European cities to estimate
illicit drug consumption in a certain … monitor drug trends and consumption rates in near real time

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based epidemiology for illicit drugs: A critical review on global data

M Huizer, TL Ter Laak, P de Voogt, AP van Wezel - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
… in the sewage system, the amount of illicit drugs consumed in g/day/inhabitant can be estimated
… This approach provides near real-time information for a specific city or region and gives …

… and narcotics monitoring in Brno wastewater system and estimation of seasonal effect on the abuse of illicit drugs by a wastewater-based epidemiology approach

MC Miino, T Macsek, T Halešová, T Chorazy… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
… metropolitan area, (ii) determine the effectiveness of the current conventional wastewater
treatment plant (WWTP), and (iii) estimate the illicit drug (ID) consumption. 23 PHA and 9 NAR …

The practical implications of wastewater-based illicit drug epidemiology

T Gunnar, A Kankaanpää - Current opinion in environmental science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
… WBE makes it possible to back calculate the amounts of drugs consumed on the … real-time
approach, WBE would theoretically be an ideal means to detect the use of novel substances in …

Long-term tracking of opioid consumption in two United States cities using wastewater-based epidemiology approach

AJ Gushgari, AK Venkatesan, J Chen, JC Steele… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
… to near real-time data on opioid consumption but application … first wastewater monitoring
data for US cities to determine city… occurrence in wastewater and could suggest illicit drug use. …

Long-term monitoring of drug consumption patterns in a large-sized European city using wastewater-based epidemiology: comparison of two sampling schemes for …

I Krizman-Matasic, I Senta, P Kostanjevecki… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
… The official data about illicit drug consumption usually … of the WBE approach are objectivity
and suitability for near-real-timesewage-based approach to assess the use of ten illicit drugs

Temporal profile of illicit drug consumption in Guangzhou, China monitored by wastewater-based epidemiology

X Zhang, R Huang, P Li, Y Ren, J Gao… - … Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been widely used as a complementary method
for estimating consumption of illicit drugs … the real-time population of a wastewater treatment …

A global systematic review and meta-analysis on illicit drug consumption rate through wastewater-based epidemiology

S Zarei, Y Salimi, E Repo, N Daglioglu, Z Safaei… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
estimate the rank and consumption rate of illicit drugs through WBE studies. In the current
study, the related investigations regarding the illicit drug consumptionillicit drug consumption

[HTML][HTML] “Waste Not, Want Not” Leveraging Sewer Systems and Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Drug Use Trends and Pharmaceutical Monitoring

TB Erickson, N Endo, C Duvallet, N Ghaeli… - Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Springer
illicit drug, this approach is difficult to scale across large populations and implement as a
routine real-time … Information based on wastewater epidemiology and consumption behavior …

[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Assessing Illicit Drug Usage and Impact through an Innovative Approach

R Yi, T Zeng, J Chen, D Liu, X Yang, M Zhao, Z Zhou - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
… the common biomarkers that can be used to evaluate the abuse of illicit drugs and their
stability in … By analyzing drug residues in wastewater, we can obtain real-time data on …