State‐of‐the‐art analytical approaches and strategies to assess disposal of drugs for wastewater‐based epidemiology

M Quireyns, T Boogaerts… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… monitor consumption trends at high spatiotemporal resolution, and that it can provide data in
near-real time … This approach does not only limit itself to illegal substances but could also be …

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 …

Monitoring geographical differences in illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco consumption via wastewater-based epidemiology: Six major cities in Turkey

MK Genc, S Mercan, M Yayla, TT Bulbul… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
… to determine the trends in drug consumption in Turkey since 2019. This study aimed to present
the wastewater … due to the anonymous, objective, and near-real time data that it provides. …

[HTML][HTML] Use of illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco in Spain and Portugal during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 as measured by wastewater-based epidemiology

A Estévez-Danta, L Bijlsma, R Capela, R Cela… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
substances, thereby highlighting the need for stable WBE networks capable of near real-time
monitoring drug use. … and representative estimation of human consumption of licit and illicit

Wastewater-based epidemiology: current status and future prospects

M Lorenzo, Y Picó - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2019 - Elsevier
real-time information on consumption of legal and illegal … tool to evaluate the use of illicit
drugs and misused therapeutic … near real-time approach include the identification of drug use

Wastewater-based epidemiology combined with local prescription analysis as a tool for temporalmonitoring of drugs trends-A UK perspective

J Rice, AM Kannan, E Castrignanò… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
real time monitoring of a community. As all individuals, whether they consume illicit drugs or
not, contribute to the wastewater it … This paper aims to estimate illicit and legal drug usage

Application of wastewater-based epidemiology to investigate stimulant drug, alcohol and tobacco use in Lithuanian communities

T Boogaerts, L Jurgelaitiene, C Dumitrascu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
… to biomarker stability, real-time population, sampling frequency, … For this reason, in-sewer
(bio)transformation of illicit drug … of WBE to evaluate substance use at the population level. …

[HTML][HTML] Biosensors for wastewater-based epidemiology for monitoring public health

K Mao, H Zhang, Y Pan, Z Yang - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
… of community-wide illicit drug consumption and pathogens for … use of the biosensor technology
for WBE to enable rapid on-site monitoring of sewage, which will provide nearly real-time

Site-and event-specific wastewater-based epidemiology: current status and future perspectives

T Verovšek, I Krizman-Matasic, D Heath… - Trends in Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
… its ability to provide data in near-real-time. It is based on the … WBE for assessing licit and
illicit drug consumption in specific … wastewater flow makes it difficult to measure wastewater flow…

[HTML][HTML] Nanomaterial-based aptamer sensors for analysis of illicit drugs and evaluation of drugs consumption for wastewater-based epidemiology

K Mao, H Zhang, Y Pan, K Zhang, H Cao, X Li… - TrAC Trends in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been demonstrated to be a novel and cost-effective
way to evaluate the abuse of illicit drugs at … and near real-time monitoring of drug use by …