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Newest firstThe increasing global consumption of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs, particularly new psychoactive substances, has resulted in their continuous release into aquatic environments, raising concerns regarding potential adverse effects on ecosystems and human health. In this study, a dispersive micro-solid-phase extraction using customized extraction devices was developed in combination with liquid chromatography-h…
Open article record in new tab ↗Synthetic cannabinoids （SCs）， which are significantly more potent and efficacious than natural cannabis， are among the most widely abused new psychoactive substances. The emergence of the so-called first-generation SCs was followed by other SCs that eventually led to the development of eighth-generation indole/indazole amide-based SCs. Indeed， this entire category of SCs was added to the list of controlled substan…
AbstractWastewater surveillance (WWS) at healthcare facilities paired with CDC- recommended patient screening methods may enable earlier detection of targeted antimicrobial resistant (AR) pathogens. However, this is a nascent field with knowledge gaps for how to best evaluate, implement, and interpret healthcare facility WWS. AR pathogens, such as carbapenemase-producing organisms and C. auris, are important non-v…
Open article record in new tab ↗This paper presents a systematic literature review on the detection of new psychoactive substances (NPS) in prison settings. It includes the most frequently reported NPS classes, the routes and forms used for smuggling, and the methods employed to analyse biological and non-biological samples. The search was carried out using MEDLINE (EBSCO), Scopus (ELSEVIER), PubMed (NCBI), and Web of Science (Clarivate) databas…
During the current global COVID-19 pandemic and opioid epidemic, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a powerful tool for monitoring public health trends by analysis of biomarkers including drugs, chemicals, and pathogens. Wastewater surveillance downstream at wastewater treatment plants provides large-scale population and regional-scale aggregation while upstream surveillance monitors locations at t…
Wastewater-based epidemiology is an innovative approach that uses the analysis of human excretion products in wastewater to obtain information about exposure to drugs in defined population groups. We developed and validated an analytical method for the simultaneous determination of opioids (morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone and hydromorphone), and cannabinoids (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, 11-nor-9-carboxy…
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