Illicit drug use causes great harm and economical loss to society, yet there is limited understanding of its prevalence in the population in low-income countries like Vietnam where survey resources are scarce. In this study, we used wastewater analysis as a cost-effective monitoring tool to measure illicit drug use in a population of Hanoi, Vietnam, a low-income country in Southeast Asia. This...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of Australia's biggest cities, Melbourne, experienced three major isolation ("lockdown") periods in 2020 (160 days) and in 2021 (111 days) which makes it one of the most locked down cities world-wide. This study assessed how the pandemic affected temporal trends in methamphetamine, MDMA and cocaine consumption using wastewater-based epidemiology. Daily samples...