Spatio-temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring.
Iria González-MariñoJose Antonio Baz LombaNikiforos A AlygizakisMaria Jesús Andrés-CostaRichard BadeAnne BannwarthLeon P BarronFrederic BéenLisa BenagliaJean-Daniel BersetLubertus BijlsmaIgor BodíkAsher BrennerAndreas Libonati BrockDaniel A BurgardErika CastrignanòAlberto CelmaChristophoros E ChristophoridisAdrian CovaciOlivier DelémontPim De VoogtDamien A DevaultMário J DiasErik EmkePierre EsseivaDespo Fatta-KassinosGanna FedorovaKonstantinos FytianosCobus GerberRoman GrabicEmma Gracia-LorStefan GrünerTeemu GunnarEvroula HapeshisEster HeathBjörn HelmFélix HernandezAino KankaanpaaSara KarolakElizabeth HoltonIvona Krizman-MatasicFoon Yin LaiWojciech LechowiczAlvaro LopesMiren López de AldaEster López-GarcíaArndís S C LöveNicola MastroianniGillian L McEneffRosa Montes GoyanesKelly MunroThomas NefauHerbert OberacherJake William O'BrienReinhard OertelKristin ÓlafsdóttirYolanda PicóBenedek G PlószFabio PoleselCristina PostigoJose Benito QuintanaPedram RaminMalcolm J ReidJack RiceRosario RodilNoelia Salgueiro-GonzálezSara SchubertIvan SentaSusana M SimõesMaja M SremackiKatarzyna StyszkoSenka TerzicΝikolaos S ΤhomaidisKevin V ThomasBenjamin J TscharkeRobin UdrisardAlexander L N van NuijsViviane YargeauEttore ZuccatoSara CastiglioniChristoph OrtPublished in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2019)
The analysis of wastewater to quantify drug loads provides near real-time drug use estimates that globally correspond to prevalence and seizure data.