Evaluation of uncertainties associated with the determination of community drug use through the measurement of sewage drug biomarkers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1452-1460

  Castiglioni, Sara ^a   Bijlsma, Lubertus ^b   Covaci, Adrian ^c   Emke, Erik ^d   Hernández, Félix ^b   Reid, Malcolm ^f   Ort, Christoph ^g   Thomas, Kevin V ^f   Van Nuijs, Alexander L N ^c   De Voogt, Pim ^d,e   Zuccato, Ettore ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^g SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG; INTERLABORATORY STUDIES; POPULATION SIZES; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SAMPLING PROTOCOL;

CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SURVEYS; WATER ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; AMPHETAMINE; BENZOYLECGONINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CANNABIS; COCAINE; DRUG METABOLITE; ILLICIT DRUG; METHAMPHETAMINE; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLIC ACID;

BIOMARKER; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; DRUG USER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG USE; DRUG UTILIZATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; POPULATION SIZE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIABILITY; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER SAMPLING;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COCAINE; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEWAGE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EUROPE;

EID: 84873440345     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302722f     Document Type: Article

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