Parkinson's disease (PD) is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder that affects an
estimated 10 million sufferers worldwide. The two forms of PD include familial and sporadic …

Illicit drug use is complex, hidden and often highly stigmatized behaviour, which brings a
vast challenge for drug surveillance systems. Drug consumption can be estimated by …

Aims To perform wastewater analyses to assess spatial differences and temporal changes of
illicit drug use in a large E uropean population. Design Analyses of raw wastewater over a 1 …

This paper collects data from worldwide research groups and aims to critically review and
analyse the advances of knowledge development in the area of occurrence, transportation …

This paper presents, for the first time, spatial and temporal occurrence of a comprehensive
set of> 60 pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and their metabolites in wastewater (7 wastewater …

The aim of this study was to integrally address the uncertainty associated with all the steps
used to estimate community drug consumption through the chemical analysis of sewage …

A wastewater treatment plant may receive various types of wastewater namely, urban,
industrial, agricultural, washout from the streets, wet or/and dry atmospheric deposition. As …

The medical and societal consequences of the misuse of pharmaceuticals clearly justify the
need for comprehensive drug utilization research (DUR). Wastewater-based epidemiology …

Illicit drugs and their metabolites are the latest group of emerging pollutants. Determination
of their concentration in environment (such as water bodies, soil, sediment, air) is an indirect …

The main aim of this manuscript is to provide a comprehensive and critical verification of
methodology commonly used for sample collection, storage and preparation in studies …