Commercial establishments where alcoholic beverages are served (e.g., bars, restaurants) and social hosts who serve alcohol in non-commercial settings may find themselves potentially.
February 3, 2021
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This study found that:
Using robotic technology, local levels of opioid metabolites can be measured in wastewater from individual manholes in a sewer system.
Concentrations of nine illicit and prescription opioids, the opioid-agonist treatment drugs methadone and buprenorphine, and the opioid-antagonist overdose reversal drug naloxone in wastewater collected at 10 sites in a North Carolina municipality varied by site.
Wastewater-based epidemiology is a novel approach to study opioid exposure at the community level in order to help public health officials better understand and respond to the current opioid crisis in the United States. In a NIDA-sponsored study, Dr. Noriko Endo and colleagues at Biobot Analytics, Inc., in Somerville, Massachusetts, and from other institutions, used a robotic technology pioneered by one of the study s senior investigators, Dr. Mariana Matus, to sample wastewater from municipal sewers and measure the levels of various opioids.
Understand the scope of alcohol and cocaine use and their effects on ED visits;
Comprehend the various routes of administration and effects of alcohol ingestion;
Demonstrate knowledge of cocaine use and overdose interventions;
Understand recent ‘designer drugs’ and chemically modified narcotics.
Drug overdoses are routinely seen in trauma bays and emergency departments worldwide. The increasingly complex methods employed to develop and consume drugs make detection of side effects and potential interactions with other drugs difficult. Common substances of abuse are now being ingested in alternative, more hazardous ways, while designer drugs are being chemically modified to enhance their euphoric effects. These various modifications have rendered modern drug screening tests almost obsolete, placing medical professionals in a formidable position.