Drug Use Patterns in Wastewater and Socioeconomic and Demographic Indicators.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Measuring drug use behaviors in individuals and across large communities presents substantial challenges, often complicated by socioeconomic and demographic variables.

Objectives

To detect spatial and temporal changes in community drug use by analyzing concentrations of analytes in influent wastewater and exploring their associations with area-based socioeconomic and sociodemographic metrics like the area deprivation index (ADI) and rural-urban commuting area (RUCA) codes.

Design, setting, and participants

This longitudinal, cross-sectional wastewater study was performed from May 2022 to April 2023 and included biweekly influent wastewater samples of 39 analytes from 8 sampling locations across 6 wastewater treatment plants in southern Nevada. Statistical a

SUBMITTER: Zhuang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420698 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature