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Project

Estimation of drug abuse in Belgium by analysis of wastewater.

This project aims at the development of models to estimate the use of illicit drugs in Belgium by means of the analysis of illicit drugs and their metabolites in wastewater ("sewage epidemiology"). Sewage epidemiology can deliver important and real-time information about local, regional, national and international illicit drug consumption which can be used in addition to classical socio-epidemiological studies to give policy makers a better picture about trends, patterns and hot-spots of illicit drug use.
Date:1 Oct 2010 →  30 Sep 2012
Keywords:WASTE WATER, ILLICIT DRUGS
Disciplines:Public health care, Public health sciences, Public health services, Biomarker discovery and evaluation, Drug discovery and development, Medicinal products, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacotherapy, Toxicology and toxinology, Other pharmaceutical sciences