Assessing illicit drugs in wastewater : potential and limitations of a new monitoring approach / EMCDDA project leaders, Norbert Frost, Paul Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

Contributor:

Frost, Norbert.

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Experts' Meeting (2007 : Lisbon, Portugal)

Series:

EMCDDA insights series ; 9.

EMCDDA insights series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sewage--Environmental aspects--Europe--Congresses.

Sewage.

Sewage--Analysis--Congresses.

Public health--Europe--Congresses.

Public health.

Drug addiction--Europe--Congresses.

Drug addiction.

Drug utilization--Europe--Congresses.

Drug utilization.

Sewage--Analysis.

Sewage--Environmental aspects.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

100 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction to sewage epidemiology and the wastewater system / Norbert Frost and Paul Griffiths

Estimating community drug use / Ettore Zuccato, ... [et al.]

Drug metabolism / Teresa Summavielle

On the occurrence and fate of illicit substances in sewer systems / Jörg Rieckermann

Georeferenced wastewater sampling and applied spatial statistics / Maria de Fátima de Pina

Integrating wastewater analysis with conventional approaches to measuring drug use / Lucas Wiessing, Julian Vicente and Matthew Hickman

Overall conclusions / Roberto Fanelli and Norbert Frost.

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.

ISBN:

9789291683178

9291683175

OCLC:

298139574