ArticleThe Science of the total environment2021
Basketball and drugs: Wastewater-based epidemiological estimation of discharged drugs during basketball games in Kentucky.
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- Dispersive micro-solid-phase extraction coupled to UHPLC-Q-TOF-MS and UHPLC-QqQ-MS for suspect and target screening of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in wastewater.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026Article
- Recreational Drug use at Sports Events in the US and UK.Journal of sport and social issues · 2026Article
- Piloting wastewater-based monitoring on a university campus to inform public health surveillance and response for opioids and other high-risk substances.Journal of water and health · 2026Article
- Wastewater Surveillance for Xylazine in Kentucky.AJPM focus · 2024Article
- Long-term wastewater-based surveillance and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on drug use trends in a U.S. Northeast rural town.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Occurrence of Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and ketamine in wastewater in the United States and Mexico during the Covid-19 pandemic.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Interpol Review of Drug Analysis 2019-2022.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2023Review
- Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 to support return to campus: Methodological considerations and data interpretation.Current opinion in environmental science & health · 2022Review
- Identification of biomarkers in wastewater-based epidemiology: Main approaches and analytical methods.Trends in analytical chemistry : TRAC · 2021Review
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Abstract
High school sports gather a significantly larger number of fans than college and professional sports in the U.S. Adolescent and adult students in high schools and colleges (aged 12-25) are among the most vulnerable population to substance use. Event planners, risk managers, and emergency medical service personnel can extrapolate the mass loads of drugs in wastewater in this study to evaluate the spectator behavior in relatively larger basketball gatherings. Thirty-three illicit and prescribed psychotic drug residues (out of target 36) and five new psychoactive substances (NPS, out of target 40) were quantified in wastewater, using ultra-performance liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry, discharged during a college and a high school basketball games that were played in the same stadium in Kentucky. The wastewater concentrations of amphetamine, methylphenidate, hydromorphone were significantly higher (p ≤ 0.040) during a high school basketball game whereas cocaine, hydrocodone, and gabapentin was significantly higher (p ≤ 0.006) in a college basketball game. Higher cocaine to its metabolite ratio suggested that a significant amount of cocaine may have directly discharged down the drain during the college basketball game. Two synthetic cathinones (methcathinone and 4-methyl pentedrone) and three other NPSs (4-ANPP, mCPP, and 4-methylamphetamine) were also quantified in wastewater indicate the prevalence of NPSs in Kentucky. This is the first report of quantified substances of potential abuses at basketball games.
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