Monitoring drugs of abuse in wastewater and air

Current Drug Abuse Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-2

  Verster, Joris C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CANNABIS; COCAINE; METHADONE; OPIATE; RIVER WATER;

ACCURACY; AIR MONITORING; ANALYTIC METHOD; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TREND STUDY; WASTE WATER;

EID: 77951464734     PISSN: 18744737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874473711003010001     Document Type: Editorial

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