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Waste Water Analysis - what drugs are you shitting & pissing out today?

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Interesting little find on the Aus Insitute of Criminolgy site..

basically it shows you when people use certain drugs that can be found in the waste water of a sewage plant in QLD.

Anyway gotta run but definitely interesting, especially if into scat. ;)

Table 2 indicates that the recorded levels of all drugs varied daily over the 12 days of sampling in 2009 and the 15 days in 2010. Increased quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine and ecstasy were detected on Saturdays and Sundays. As samples were collected at 6.00 am each day, this likely reflects consumption on Friday and Saturday nights. There were also notable changes in the levels of drugs identified in the two sampling periods. The average loading per 1,000 people of cocaine in 2009 (221mg, SD=100) was more than four times that seen in 2010 (52mg, SD=21); a significant decline—Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z=2.58, p<0.001. Conversely, loadings of methamphetamine increased between 2009 (158mg, SD=40) and 2010 (228mg, SD=40)—Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z=1.81, p=0.003. No changes were apparent in mean MDMA loadings between 2009 (131mg, SD=62) and 2010 (139mg, SD=125)—Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z=0.99, p=0.213. Daily loadings are displayed in Figure 1, which presents each drug type by each sampling year (mg/day/1,000 people).
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^LOL, well put.

Just think of all the bits and bobs in all dem turds - hydroxy this, and methyl that. If I could just invent a machine that could process shit into good shit, I'd rock on over there and start filling buckets:p

On another tangent, imagine if (when) the government could keep its blazing red eye on its citizens' consumption habits through smart meters (fart meters?!) connected to every residential structure's plumbing system. A bit like a (more) creepy Santa, they would know everything, including who was or wasn't keeping their diet healthy or taking non-governmental approved substances and thus putting a burden on the public healthcare system.
 
^^^ isn't it unbelievable Brighton, the government spent a shitload of money to figure this out. Fuck it I'm going to apply for a government grant to do a study on how many clocks rotate clockwise!
 
they should purify the drugs out of the wastewater and give them back to us. fucking taxman, jeez. taxing our precious bodily fluids.
 
^ I remember a story about meth addicts in the US collecting piss from truck stops, because truckies use meth and a certain amount is excreted in urine. I'm sure it's 100% true too, since it was written in a newspaper article ;)
 
True that, I remember watching a doco about Meth production and apparently cooks were making it out of their urine to maximize profits.
 
Gosh, I wish someone would delete this thread - now LE are going to be clued in about those of us who've been doing so well out of collecting and refining raw sewage!;)

But seriously, in response to the posts talking down the usefulness of this research, or calling it a waste of money, I actually think it's interesting and useful to have ways of measuring changing trends in use of different types of substances that don't rely on self-report (because with self-report you're relying on people's imperfect memory, people who think they've taken one substance when it's actually something else, etc.) This would have been a pilot or proof-of-concept type study just to show it can be done, so obviously it's not going to have the most ground-breaking information, but it means other researchers will now realise this approach is available and reliable to be used for more interesting long-term studies, and maybe expand the range of substances which can be detected etc. Even with this small study, it's interesting to see the dramatic changes in cocaine and MDMA between the two testing points, a year apart. So to some of you who've posted above:

They got the data, and you's just a hater!
 
I agree, shoo-bop - it is a very interesting way to monitor the population's drug use.
It would be nice if the authorities and population at large were able to adopt a more pragmatic approach to drug use (ie part of the human condition and not a criminal perversion) so the more knowledge/information we have, the better.
Unless it is used against people, which is what we have all grown accustomed to in this war on drugs (war against people by governments). Just breeds paranoia, or reasonable suspicion.
A fascinating way to collect accurate data though!
 
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