As with so many other modern wonders, the detection of drugs in sewage is a chemical miracle. One caution: Before overestimating the drugs indicated by sewage analysis, we have to take into account that a significant percentage of our community takes drugs to ease their pain.

I am a caretaker for a 100-year-old lady who is bedridden and takes morphine and fentanyl.

Maybe AI can aid our sewer sleuths to better estimate the state’s narcotic nature.

John Wollstein

Ala Wai

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