/newsroom/taxonomy/term/11497/all en /newsroom/channels/news/mapping-international-drug-use-looking-wastewater-301944 <p>Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known source of wastewater, such as a sewage influent to a wastewater treatment plant, scientists can estimate the quantity of drugs used in a community from the measured levels of illicit drugs and their metabolites excreted in urine.</p> Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:36:19 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 188089 at /newsroom /newsroom/viviane-yargeau Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22662 at /newsroom