Assessing illicit drugs in wastewater
Subtitle: potential and limitations of a new monitoring approach
By: EMCDDA project leaders, Norbert Frost, Paul Griffiths.
Contributors: Frost, Norbert.; European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Experts' Meeting
Series: EMCDDA insights -- 9; EMCDDA insights series -- 9.
Publisher: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Luxembourg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9789291683178
Subjects: Sewage -- Environmental aspects -- Europe -- Congresses; Sewage -- Analysis -- Congresses; Public health -- Europe -- Congresses; Drug addiction -- Europe -- Congresses; Drug utilization -- Europe -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: This report presents a number of contributions that relate to analyzing 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.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This report is based on the presentations made at an experts' meeting held at the EMCDDA in Lisbon in 2007, organised by Norbert Frost"--P. 7.

"TD-XD-08-009-EN-C"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to sewage epidemiology and the wastewater system / Norbert Frost and Paul Griffiths; title: Estimating community drug use / Ettore Zuccato, ... [et al.]; title: Drug metabolism / Teresa Summavielle; title: On the occurrence and fate of illicit substances in sewer systems / Jörg Rieckermann; title: Georeferenced wastewater sampling and applied spatial statistics / Maria de Fátima de Pina; title: Integrating wastewater analysis with conventional approaches to measuring drug use / Lucas Wiessing, Julian Vicente and Matthew Hickman; title: Overall conclusions / Roberto Fanelli and Norbert Frost.