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Monitoring psychoactive substance use at six European festivals through wastewater and pooled urine analysis

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Ethical research guidelines for wastewater-based epidemiology and related fields

This document, published in 2016 by the Sewage Analysis Core group Europe (SCORE) in 2016, presents ethical guidelines for undertaking wastewater-based epidemiology and related techniques. The objective of these guidelines is to outline the main potential ethical risks in wastewater research and to...

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Spatial differences and temporal changes in illicit drug use in Europe quantified by wastewater analysis

Wastewater analysis can measure total illicit drug use more quickly and regularly than is the current norm for national surveys, and creates estimates where such data does not exist.

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Testing wastewater to detect illicit drugs: state of the art, potential and research needs

Chemical analysis of urban wastewater is a potent tool to monitor patterns and trends of illicit drug use.

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Challenges of surveying wastewater drug loads of small populations and generalizable aspects on optimizing monitoring design’

This scientific article was one of the 2015 EMCDDA scientific award winners, which celebrates scientific writing and distinguishes high-quality research in the field of illicit drugs

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Common protocol of action for monitoring illicit drugs in wastewater

In 2010, a Europe-wide network (SCORE - Sewage analysis CORe group - Europe) was established to standardize the wastewater analysis approach and to coordinate international studies through the creation of a common protocol of action. Following the success of an initial study in 19 European cities,...

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