• openAccess   Changes in drug use in European cities during early COVID-19 lockdowns ? A snapshot from wastewater analysis 

      Been, Frederic; Emke, Erik; Matias, Joao Luis; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Boogaerts, Tim; Castiglioni, Sara; Campos-Mañas, Marina Celia; Celma, Alberto; Covaci, Adrian; de Voogt, Pim; Hernandez, Felix; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; ter Laak, Thomas; Reid, Malcolm; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Steenbeek, Ruud; van Nuijs, Alexander; Zuccato, Ettore; Bijlsma, Lubertus Elsevier (2021-03-26)
      The COVID-19 outbreak has forced countries to introduce severe restrictive measures to contain its spread. In particular, physical distancing and restriction of movement have had important consequences on human behaviour ...
    • openAccess   Drug use by music festival attendees: A novel triangulation approach using self-reported data and test results of oral fluid and pooled urine samples 

      Gjerde, Hallvard; Gjersing, Linn; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Furuhaugen, Havard; Bretteville-Jensen, Anne LIne; Hernandez, Felix; Castiglioni, Sara; Amundsen, Ellen Johanna; Zuccato, Ettore Taylor & Francis (2019)
      Background: Self-reported data are commonly used when investigating illicit substance use. However, self-reports have well-known limitations such as limited recall and socially desirable responding. Mislabeling or ...
    • openAccess   Flexible high resolution-mass spectrometry approach for screening new psychoactive substances in urban wastewater 

      Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Castiglioni, Sara; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Bagnati, Renzo; Hernandez, Felix; Zuccato, Ettore Elsevier (2019-11-01)
      The number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) on the recreational drug market has increased rapidly in the last years, creating serious challenges for public health agencies and law enforcement authorities. Epidemiological ...
    • closedAccess   Influent wastewater analysis to investigate emerging trends of new psychoactive substances use in Europe 

      Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Been, Frederic; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Boogaerts, Tim; Covaci, Adrian; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Matias, João; Ort, Christoph; Bodík, Igor; Heath, Ester; Styszko, Katarzyna; Emke, Erik; Hernandez, Felix; van Nuijs, Alexander; Castiglioni, Sara Elsevier (2024-01-27)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can provide objective and timely information on the use of new psychoactive substances (NPS), originally designed as legal alternatives of internationally controlled drugs. NPS have ...
    • openAccess   Monitoring psychoactive substance use at six European festivals through wastewater and pooled urine analysis 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Castiglioni, Sara; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Bou Iserte, Lledó; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Reid, Malcolm; Dias, M.J.; Lopes, Alvaro; Matias, Joao Luis; Pastor Alcañiz, Laura; Radonic, J.; Turk Sekulic, M.; Shine, Trevor; van Nuijs, Alexander; Hernandez, Felix; Zuccato, Ettore Elsevier (2020-07-10)
      The consumption of psychoactive substances is considered a growing problem in many communities. Moreover, new psychoactive substances (NPS) designed as (legal) substitutes to traditional illicit drugs are relatively easily ...
    • openAccess   Simultaneous determination of new psychoactive substances and illicit drugs in sewage: Potential of micro-liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in wastewater-based epidemiology 

      Celma, Alberto; Sancho, Juan V; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Castiglioni, Sara; Zuccato, Ettore; Hernandez, Felix; Bijlsma, Lubertus Elsevier (2019-05-30)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can give valuable light on the extent and actual use of new psychoactive substances (NPS). In this work, a fully validated methodology for the simultaneous determination of illicit drugs ...
    • openAccess   Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring 

      González-Mariño, Iria; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Alygizakis, Nikiforos; Andrés-Costa, Maria Jesús; Bade, Richard; Bannwarth, Anne; Barron, Leon; Been, Frederic; Benaglia, Lisa; Berset, Jean-Daniel; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Bodík, Igor; Brenner, Asher; Brock, Andreas L.; Burgard, Daniel A.; Castrignanò, Erika; Celma, Alberto; Christophoridis, Christophoros; Covaci, Adrian; Delémont, Olivier; de Voogt, Pim; Devault, Damien A.; Mário J. Dias, Mário J.; Emke, Erik; Esseiva, Pierre; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Fedorova, Ganna; Fytianos, Konstantinos; Gerber, Cobus; Grabic, Roman; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Grüner, Stefan; Gunnar, Teemu; Hapeshi, Evroula; Heath, Ester; Helm, Björn; Hernandez, Felix; Kankaanpaa, Aino; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Krizman-Matasic, Ivona; Lai, Foon Yin; Lechowicz, Wojciech; Lopes, Alvaro; López de Alda, Miren; López-García, Ester; Löve, Arndís; Mastroianni, Nicola; McEneff, Gillian; Montes, Rosa; Munro, Kelly; Nefau, Thomas; Oberacher, Herbert; O'Brien, Jake William; Oertel, Reinhard; Olafsdottir, Kristin; Picó, Yolanda; Plosz, Benedek; Polesel, Fabio; Postigo, Cristina; Quintana, José Benito; Ramin Pedram; Reid, Malcolm J.; Rice, Jack; Rodil, Rosario; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Schubert, Sara; Senta, Ivan; Simões, Susana M.; Sremački, Maja; Styszko, Katarzyna; Terzic, Senka; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Thomas, Kevin V.; Tscharke, Ben J.; Udrisard, Robin; van Nuijs, Alexander; Yargeau Viviane; Zuccato, Ettore; Castiglioni, Sara; Ort, Christoph Wiley (2020-01)
      Background and aims: Wastewater‐based epidemiology is an additional indicator of drug use that is gaining reliability to complement the current established panel of indicators. The aims of this study were to: (i) assess ...
    • openAccess   Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries 

      Bade, Richard; Rousis, Nikolaos I; Adhikari, Sangeet; Baduel, Christine; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Bizani, Erasmia; Boogaerts, Tim; Burgard, Daniel A.; Castiglioni, Sara; Chappell, Andrew; Covaci, Adrian; Driver, Erin M.; Fabriz Sodré, Fernando; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Galani, Aikaterini; Gerber, Cobus; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Gracia-Marín, Elisa; Halden, Rolf; Heath, Ester; Hernandez, Felix; Yin Lai, Foon; Lee, Heon-Jun; Laimou-Geraniou, Maria; Oh, Jeong-Eun; Olafsdottir, Kristin; Phung, Kaitlyn; Pineda Castro, Marco; Psichoudaki, Magda; Shao, Xueting; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Silva Feitosa, Rafael; Silvino Gomes, Cezar; Subedi, Bikram; Löve, Arndís; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Tran, Diana; van Nuijs, Alexander; Verovšek, Taja; Wang, Degao; White, Jason; Yargeau, Viviane; Zuccato, Ettore; Mueller, Jochen Elsevier (2023-05)
      The proliferation of new psychoactive substances (NPS) over recent years has made their surveillance complex. The analysis of raw municipal influent wastewater can allow a broader insight into community consumption patterns ...