Evaluating the public health impacts of legalizing recreational cannabis use in the United States

W Hall, M Lynskey - Addiction, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims Since 2012 four US states have legalized the retail sale of cannabis
for recreational use by adults, and more are likely to follow. This report aimed to (1) briefly …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmaceuticals and the Environment (PiE): Evolution and impact of the published literature revealed by bibliometric analysis

CG Daughton - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
The evolution and impact of the published literature surrounding the transdisciplinary,
multifaceted topic of pharmaceuticals as contaminants in the environment is examined for …

Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis

KV Thomas, L Bijlsma, S Castiglioni, A Covaci… - Science of the total …, 2012 - Elsevier
The analysis of sewage for urinary biomarkers of illicit drugs is a promising and
complementary approach for estimating the use of these substances in the general …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring wastewater for assessing community health: Sewage Chemical-Information Mining (SCIM)

CG Daughton - Science of The Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Timely assessment of the aggregate health of small-area human populations is essential for
guiding the optimal investment of resources needed for preventing, avoiding, controlling, or …

Paradigm shifts and current challenges in wastewater management

MC Villarín, S Merel - Journal of hazardous materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater is a significant environmental and public health concern which management is
a constant challenge since antiquity. Wastewater research has increased exponentially over …

Illicit drugs and the environment—a review

R Pal, M Megharaj, KP Kirkbride, R Naidu - Science of the Total …, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Wastewater surveillance for 168 pharmaceuticals and metabolites in a WWTP: Occurrence, temporal variations and feasibility of metabolic biomarkers for intake …

L Duan, Y Zhang, B Wang, G Yu, J Gao, G Cagnetta… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is amply used for mining information about public
health such as the estimation of consumption/intake of certain substances. Yet, proper …

Refining the estimation of illicit drug consumptions from wastewater analysis: co-analysis of prescription pharmaceuticals and uncertainty assessment

FY Lai, C Ort, C Gartner, S Carter, J Prichard… - Water research, 2011 - Elsevier
Wastewater analysis is a promising monitoring tool to estimate illicit drug consumption at the
community level. The advantage of this technique over traditional surveys and other …

Behavior of pharmaceuticals and drugs of abuse in a drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) using combined conventional and ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis (UF …

MR Boleda, MT Galceran, F Ventura - Environmental pollution, 2011 - Elsevier
The behavior along the potabilization process of 29 pharmaceuticals and 12 drugs of abuse
identified from a total of 81 compounds at the intake of a drinking water treatment plant …

The current status of sweat testing for drugs of abuse: a review

N De Giovanni, N Fucci - Current medicinal chemistry, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Sweat is an alternative biological matrix useful to detect drugs of abuse intake. It is produced
by eccrine and apocrine glands originating in the skin dermis and terminating in secretory …