Rapid response to: Record number of fake drugs are seized in crackdown

“The record number of fake drugs seized under Operation Pangea VI is just the tip of the iceberg. At present, we don’t really know the size of the European market for illicit medicines, neither do we know much about public exposure, let alone the incurred health damage. We therefore set out to estimate the actual use of illicit medicines by using sewage epidemiology. Sewage epidemiology is an established science for monitoring drugs of abuse.”

(Citaat: Venhuis, B.J., de Voogt, W.P., Emke, E., Causanilles, A., Keizers, P. – Rapid response to: Record number of fake drugs are seized in crackdown – British Medical Journal (2014)2 July)