Extraction of syringe content for chemical analysis, ESCAPE, 2017

Overview of the steps used to extract and analyse residues in syringes for the 2017 pilot study of the ESCAPE (European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise) project.

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Overview of the steps used to extract and analyse residues in syringes for the 2017 pilot study of the ESCAPE (European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise) project.

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Drugs in syringes from six European cities: results from the ESCAPE project 2017
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Main subject

prevalence and patterns of drug use

Keywords

chemistry
ESCAPE
injecting drug use
methodology
prevalence and patterns of drug use

Target audience

researcher

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infographics

Published date:

May 2019
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