Wastewater-based assessment of episodic changes in psychoactive compounds and hormones during music festivals
Alexandra Tulipánová, Tomáš Mackuľak, Ivana Horáková, Zuzana Imreová, Alexandra Paulína Drdanová, Adam Bořík, Pavel Šauer, Hana Kocour Kroupová, Roman Grabic, Paula Bímová, Andrea Vojs Staňová · 2026
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Alexandra Tulipánová and colleagues use, in 2026, wastewater testing to catch drug and hormone spikes during music festivals in Slovakia. Sewage analysis can reveal what a population uses, day by day, without surveys. The team sampled a treatment plant from 2015 to 2018, with extra sampling at two festivals.
Eleven psychoactive compounds were tracked, plus 17 hormone-related compounds during festival days. Seasonal swings were minor, but festival days brought sharp jumps. At the multi-genre festival, the breakdown product signal for MDMA rose more than a hundredfold on the second day, and a cocaine marker rose about seventeenfold. A country festival mainly lifted a painkiller. Statistical patterns cleanly separated festival from ordinary samples.
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| CREATOR | Alexandra Tulipánová, Tomáš Mackuľak, Ivana Horáková, Zuzana Imreová, Alexandra Paulína Drdanová, Adam Bořík, Pavel Šauer, Hana Kocour Kroupová, Roman Grabic, Paula Bímová, Andrea Vojs Staňová |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43125 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |