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| Title |
Monitoring temporal changes in use of two cathinones in a large urban catchment in Queensland, Australia
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| Published in |
Science of the Total Environment, December 2015
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.038 |
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| Authors |
Phong K. Thai, Foon Yin Lai, Methsiri Edirisinghe, Wayne Hall, Raimondo Bruno, Jake W. O'Brien, Jeremy Prichard, K. Paul Kirkbride, Jochen F. Mueller |
| Abstract |
Wastewater analysis was used to examine prevalence and temporal trends in the use of two cathinones, methylone and mephedrone, in an urban population (>200,000 people) in South East Queensland, Australia. Wastewater samples were collected from the inlet of the sewage treatment plant that serviced the catchment from 2011 to 2013. Liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry was used to measure mephedrone and methylone in wastewater sample using direct injection mode. Mephedrone was not detected in any samples while methylone was detected in 45% of the samples. Daily mass loads of methylone were normalized to the population and used to evaluate methylone use in the catchment. Methylone mass loads peaked in 2012 but there was no clear temporal trend over the monitoring period. The prevalence of methylone use in the catchment was associated with the use of MDMA, the more popular analogue of methylone, as indicated by other complementary sources. Methylone use was stable in the study catchment during the monitoring period whereas mephedrone use has been declining after its peak in 2010. More research is needed on the pharmacokinetics of emerging illicit drugs to improve the applicability of wastewater analysis in monitoring their use in the population. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 33% |
| Spain | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 46 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 45 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 8 | 17% |
| Researcher | 8 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 13% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 2 | 4% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 17 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 9% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 4% |
| Engineering | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 13% |
| Unknown | 24 | 52% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 August 2016.
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#2,004,348
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#2,710
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#32,941
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Outputs of similar age from Science of the Total Environment
#21
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