‘An Early Warning’: Researchers See Spike in Opioids in Alberta Wastewater Samples

‘An Early Warning’: Researchers See Spike in Opioids in Alberta Wastewater Samples
University of Calgary researchers check monitoring equipment as they track traces of COVID-19 in the wastewater system in Calgary on July 14, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh
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Researchers say the amount of opioids and other illicit drugs found in a monitoring of Alberta wastewater jumped in June.

Wastewater testing is done weekly at six sites throughout the province as part of a pilot study funded by the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education at the Cumming School of Medicine and the Calgary Health Foundation that ends this fall.