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Recreational drug use at a major music festival: trend analysis of anonymised pooled urine

Lotte Christine Groth HoegbergDepartment of Anaesthesiology, The Danish Poisons Information Center, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg-Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Correspondence[email protected]
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Cecilie ChristiansenDepartment of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
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Jesper SoeDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Copenhagen and Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark;
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Rasmus TelvingDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Mette Findal AndreasenDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Dan StaerkDepartment of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
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Lona Louring ChristrupDepartment of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
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Kenneth Thermann KongstadDepartment of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
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Pages 245-255 | Received 11 Apr 2017, Accepted 24 Jul 2017, Published online: 17 Aug 2017

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