[HTML][HTML] Wastewater-based epidemiology for illicit drugs: a critical review on global data

M Huizer, TL Ter Laak, P de Voogt, AP van Wezel - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Microplastics physicochemical properties, specific adsorption modeling and their interaction with pharmaceuticals and other emerging contaminants

Y Vieira, EC Lima, EL Foletto, GL Dotto - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
This review discusses the imminent threat that microplastics (MPs) associated with
pharmaceuticals represent to the aquatic environment and public health. We initially focused …

[HTML][HTML] Occurrence of pharmaceutical residues, personal care products, lifestyle chemicals, illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater and receiving surface waters of …

K Styszko, K Proctor, E Castrignanò… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
This is the first study of broad range of chemical classes CECs conducted in the upper Wisla
river catchment including the biggest WWTPs in this region and surface waters. The list of …

Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

I González‐Mariño, JA Baz‐Lomba, NA Alygizakis… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims Wastewater‐based epidemiology is an additional indicator of drug
use that is gaining reliability to complement the current established panel of indicators. The …

[HTML][HTML] Festivals following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions: Prevalence of new psychoactive substances and illicit drugs

N Rousis, R Bade, I Romero-Sánchez, JF Mueller… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
The market for illicit drugs and new psychoactive substances (NPS) has grown significantly
and people attending festivals have been identified as being at high risk (high extent and …

[HTML][HTML] How microplastics affect chiral illicit drug methamphetamine in aquatic food chain? From green alga (Chlorella pyrenoidosa) to freshwater snail …

H Qu, R Ma, H Barrett, B Wang, J Han, F Wang… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
The biological impacts of microplastics on many organisms have been well documented.
However, the combined effects of microplastics and chiral chemicals on the aquatic food …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput multi-residue quantification of contaminants of emerging concern in wastewaters enabled using direct injection liquid chromatography …

KT Ng, H Rapp-Wright, M Egli, A Hartmann… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
A rapid quantitative method for 135 contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in untreated
wastewater enabled with direct injection liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry …

The role of analytical chemistry in exposure science: Focus on the aquatic environment

F Hernandez, J Bakker, L Bijlsma, J De Boer… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Exposure science, in its broadest sense, studies the interactions between stressors
(chemical, biological, and physical agents) and receptors (eg humans and other living …

Wastewater-based epidemiology and enantiomeric profiling for drugs of abuse in South African wastewaters

E Archer, E Castrignanò, B Kasprzyk-Hordern… - Science of The Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The current study is aimed to introduce a wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach
for the first time on the African continent where substance abuse data is limited. The study …

Wastewater-based epidemiology combined with local prescription analysis as a tool for temporalmonitoring of drugs trends-A UK perspective

J Rice, AM Kannan, E Castrignanò… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reports the application of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for the
monitoring of one city in the UK in years 2014–2018 as a means of 1) exploring relative …