%0 Journal Article
%T Chinese cities scan sewers for signs of illegal drug use: privacy concerns and cultural differences could limit the technique's use in other nations
%J Nature
%D 2018
%A Cyranoski, David
%V 559
%N 
%P 310-311
%X Dozens of cities across China are applying an unusual forensic technique to monitor illegal drug use: chemically analysing sewage for traces of drugs, or their telltale metabolites, excreted in urine.  One southern city, Zhongshan, a drug hotspot, is also monitoring waste water to evaluate the effectiveness of its drug-reduction programmes, says Li Xiqing, an environmental chemist at Peking University in Beijing who is working with police in these cities ...
%G en
%I Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group
%@ 0028-0836
%U http://dx.doi.org/