Wastewater Analysis for Substance Abuse Monitoring and Policy Development

by Wayne Hall, Paul Kirkbride, Jeremy Prichard, et al.

This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances. Wastewater analysis (WWA) can provide efficient, affordable, fine-grained and objective data on population substance use trends on a very large scale.

The authors discuss the potential implications of WWA as a new method for understanding substance use in a variety of settings and ignite a discourse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367612534
• ISBN13: 9780367612535
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"