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Interpreting Methamphetamine Levels in a High-Use Community

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  • Illicit drug use is a largely hidden phenomenon and population measures are notoriously problematic. Reliable and valid data for local, regional and national public health and other interventions are needed. To address this information we examined temporal trends within and across weeks in methamphetamine (MA) in a single location in order to inform a sampling plan for understanding long-term trends in MA use based on sampling raw influent to waste water treatment plants. The measured concentrations in wastewater are used to estimate the total mass of MA consumed MA rather than the number of doses due to the uncertainty surrounding methamphetamine purity, mass of MA per dose, and the number of doses used per day. Results from a region with high levels of MA use indicate that MA levels do not differ significantly between weekdays and weekends (p=0.1), consistent with a predominately regular, daily use pattern use. The potential contribution of legal sales of d- and l-MA to the mass of MA consumed within the community was estimated to range from 3-8%. Limitations and uncertainties associated with estimating the mass of MA consumption include small contributions of prescription and over-the-counter drugs that are metabolized to MA as well as measurement and sampling variability.
  • Keywords: Temporal patterns, Epidemiology wastewater, Methamphetamine (MA)
  • Keywords: Temporal patterns, Epidemiology wastewater, Methamphetamine (MA)
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  • Chiaia-Hernandez, A. C., Banta-Green, C. J., & Field, J. A. (2011). Interpreting methamphetamine levels in a high-use community. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 18(9), 1471-1477. doi: 10.1007/s11356-011-0495-3
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  • This study was funded, in part, by a grant from the Oregon Health Sciences University Medical Research Foundation and by a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Grant No. 1R21DO24800-01.
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