Sewage epidemiology and illicit drug research: The development of ethical research guidelines

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 550-555

  Prichard, Jeremy ^a   Hall, Wayne ^b   de Voogt, Pim ^c   Zuccato, Ettore ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ethical; Ethics; Sewage epidemiology; Wastewater analysis

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PRISONS; SEWAGE;

ETHICAL; ETHICS; GENERAL POPULATION; GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES; RESEARCH PLANNING; SEWAGE EPIDEMIOLOGIES; WASTEWATER ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER SAMPLES;

RESEARCH;

ILLICIT DRUG;

DRUG; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GUIDELINE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE EPIDEMIOLOGY; STIGMA; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WATER ANALYSIS;

ETHICAL; ETHICS; SEWAGE EPIDEMIOLOGY; WASTEWATER ANALYSIS;

ETHICAL ANALYSIS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEWAGE; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84889634135     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.039     Document Type: Article

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