Cover story

• National drugs strategy and new programme for government p.01 

Policy and legislation

• Sharing the vision: a mental health policy for everyone p.05
• Children’s bail supervision scheme evaluation p.05
• Policing with trust p.07 

Covid-19

• LSE report on Irish response to covid-19 p.09
• Covid-19 and community alcohol detoxification p.10
• Caring for opioid drug users during covid-19: the Irish experience p.12
• Needle exchange provision during covid-19 pandemic  p.13 

Prevalence and current situation

• Crack cocaine use in Ballymun p.14
• Irish drug use findings from European men -who-have-sex-with-men internet survey p.16
• National sexual assault treatment unit services annual report, 2019 p.17
• Hepatitis c virus infection in Irish drug users and prisoners – a scoping review 18
• Estimating the seroprevalence of untreated chronic HCV infection in Mountjoy prison p.19
• Senior management perspectives on needle exchange provision in Irish prisons p.20
• Prison visiting committee annual reports, 2018 p.21 

Responses

• Ana Liffey drug project annual report, 2018 p.22
• Adolescent addiction service report, 2020 p.23
• An Garda Síochána annual report, 2018 p.24 

Updates

• Recent publications p.28