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Published online 5 August 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050801-12
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Sewage study spots cocaine users
Chemicals in Italian waste water suggest drug use is under-reported.
A study of drug chemicals in sewage water suggests that the level of cocaine use could be many times the figure suggested by questionnaires.
Ettore Zuccato of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan and his colleagues took river and sewage samples from four medium-sized Italian cities.
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