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Drug and Alcohol Trends Monitoring System (DATMS) 2024: year 9
Robinson, Janet and Doherty, Jim (2025) Dublin: Blanchardstown Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force
Prevention of adolescent stimulant drug use: do the home life environment and extracurricular activities influence this? Findings from the Irish Planet Youth Survey
Daly, Fionn P et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330489
Protocol for modelling the risk of alcohol-attributable mortality and hospital admission in Ireland
(2025) Dublin: Health Information and Quality Authority
HHC (Hexahydrocannabinol).
(2025) Dublin: Department of Health
A harm-reduction approach to drug use
Watters, Niall (2025) Dublin: Oireachtas Library and Research Service
Sentencing guidelines
McLaughlin, Karen (2025) Dublin: Oireachtas Library and Research Service
HSE Talking health and wellbeing podcast #109 Overdose Awareness
Trends in analgesia prescribing in primary care in Ireland and England between 2014 and 2022: a repeated cross-sectional study
Mattsson, Molly et al (2025) British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Early online. doi.org/10.1002/bcp.70174
'I wish it were more often told to people before they are prescribed these medications how hard it is to get off them': a qualitative descriptive analysis of free-text responses to a survey on reducing and stopping psychiatric medication
Boland, Miriam et al (2025) Health Expectations, 28, (4). doi.org/10.1111/hex.70384
Deficits in alcohol enforcement legislation in Ireland: bottomless brunches
McGrath, Niamh et al (2025) Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health, 20, (2). doi.org/10.54103/2282-0930/28981
Alcohol’s cost to the workplace
(2025) Dublin: Alcohol Action Ireland
Understanding young adults’ drinking practices and experiences with alcohol in Ireland
(2025) Dublin: Drinkaware
Trends and description of inpatient admissions for eating disorders among children and adolescents in Ireland: 2018-2022.
Lovett, Harriet et al (2025) Journal of Eating Disorders, 13. doi.org/10.1186/s40337-025-01372-1
E-scooter-related maxillofacial injuries: outcome of recent legislation change
Jung, Min Seo et al (2025) Irish Journal of Medical Science, Early online. doi.org/10.1007/s11845-025-04025-z
Health and societal burden of tobacco smoking in Ireland: a life table modelling study.
Valentelyte, Gintare et al (2025) Public Health, 247. doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105880
Safety and beyond? Exploring children's priorities for their participation in the child protection and welfare process
Gilligan, Robbie et al (2025) Child Abuse & Neglect, Early online. doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107614
Causes of fires statistics [Ireland].
(2025) Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Homelessness, poor housing and the impact on children 2025
National Suicide Research Foundation annual report 2024
(2025) Dublin: National Suicide Research Foundation
Bray Community Addiction Team annual report 2024
(2025) Wicklow: Bray Community Addiction Team CLG
Clondalkin Drug & Alcohol Task Force Project Management CLG financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
(2025) Dublin: Clondalkin Drug and Alcohol Task Force
Probation Service annual report 2024
(2025) Dublin: Probation Service
Prison visiting committee annual reports 2023
Prison visiting committees. (2025) Department of Justice
Merchants Quay Ireland Directors' report and financial statements 2024
(2025) Dublin: Merchants Quay Ireland
Tusla annual report and financial statements 2024
State of the Nation's children 2024
(2025) Dublin: Department of Children, Disability and Equality
The National Maternity Hospital Holles Street annual report 2024
(2025) Dublin: National Maternity Hospital
National Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) annual report 2024
Eogan, Maeve (2025) Dublin: National Sexual Assault Treatment Unit
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International publications
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Women in recovery - rapid review of evidence
(2025) Glasgow: Scottish Recovery Consortium.
Guidance manual for greenspace programmes that support people with poor mental health and substance use challenges
Masterton, Wendy et al (2025) Stirling: University of Stirling
A systematic review of reviews on comprehensive community initiatives to prevent or reduce alcohol and other drug harms
Gates, Peter John et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70153
Preventing substance use-related harms among young people in Scotland. Evidence, knowledge gaps, and systems solutions
Falzon, Danilo (2025) Edinburgh: Drug Research Network Scotland
Drug Education Forum podcast. [Video]
(2025) UK: Drug Education Forum
Gaps in the engagement of people with lived and living experience and caregivers in mental health and substance use health research: a qualitative study of untapped potential
Hawke, Lisa D et al (2025) Health Expectations, 28, (4). doi.org/10.1111/hex.70393
Beyond stigma: understanding and using human rights in recovery
Bennett, Tom (2025) SHAAP Blog
Substance use disorders: a call for a staging paradigm
Bachi, Keren et al (2025) Translational Psychiatry, 15. doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03484-3
From environmental disasters to emerging drugs; a framework to understand, map and assess drug-related early warning systems
Freestone, Jack et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 145. doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104946
Vienna after consensus: report of the 68th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
(2025) London: International Drug Policy Consortium
The responsibility of health: shifting the focus from individuals to systems
Tubeuf, Sandy et al (2025) The Lancet, 10, (3). DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00013-1
Talking about wealth inequality
Kerr, Sarah et al (2025) York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Identifying policy options to tackle health inequalities: policy analysis and opportunities for learning for Wales
Jones, Lisa et al (2025) Cardiff: Public Health Wales
Welsh studies: Public Health Wales, ADR Wales, Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Databank and Welsh Government.
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Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: part one - quantitative findings, methodology, limitations and future research
Kilbane, Sarah et al (2025) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Early online. doi.org/10.1177/0306624X251357615
European Union Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment – The changing DNA of serious and organised crime
Europol. (2025) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union
A systematic review of substance misuse treatment processes and outcomes as implemented in prisons for men in the UK.
Barnett, Kim et al (2025) Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Early online. doi.org/10.1002/cbm.70008
European toolkit for the elimination of viral hepatitis in prisons (EuroHePP).
European Union Drugs Agency. (2025) Lisbon: EUDA
A systematic review of reviews on comprehensive community initiatives to prevent or reduce alcohol and other drug harms
Gates, Peter John et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70153
Navigating surveillance: the experience of prenatal women who use or who are in treatment for using drugs
Radcliffe, Polly et al (2025) The British Journal of Social Work, Early online. doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf161
Concurrent use and association of patient-reported experience and outcome measures in psychiatric and substance use disorder care: a scoping review
Kjøllesdal, Marte Karoline Råberg et al (2025) Frontiers in Health Services, 5. doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2025.1620809
Comprehensive review on association of bipolar disorder and substance abuse: dual diagnosis and treatment approaches
Bonner-Reid, Felicia T et al (2025) Cureus, 17, (6). DOI: 10.7759/cureus.86363
ADHD drug treatment and risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries, transport accidents, and criminality: emulation of target trials
Zhang, Le et al (2025) BMJ, 390, doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-083658
Financial incentives for substance abstinence: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Phillips-Chantelois, Damon et al (2025) Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 27, (8), pp. 1319-1331. doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaf038
Outreach health-care services for people experiencing exclusion in high-income countries
Johnson, Luke et al (2025) The Lancet Public Health, Early online. DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00144-6
"Injecting yourself there is stigma around it; taking a few tablets is not too bad, is it?": understanding perceptions and preferences of anabolic-androgenic steroid route of administration.
Cox, Luke et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, 22. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01198-9
Characterizing ‘atmosphere’: exploring determinants of regular service attendance amongst integrated supervised consumption site clients in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Scher, Benjamin D et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, Early online
(Dealing with) illegal drugs and “unwanted land-use”: a socially inclusive future planning imagination for drug consumption rooms
Boland, Philip et al (2025) Journal of Planning Education and Research, Early online. doi.org/10.1177/0739456X251318245
Brief intervention information: bacterial infections
(2025) Edinburgh: Scottish Drugs Forum
Wound aware: a resource for commissioners and providers of drug services
(2025) London: Department of Health & Social Care
Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to healthcare engagement for people with injecting-related invasive infections using a social ecological framework
Attwood, Lucy O et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70175
Stigmatization in the pre-death interactions of family and friends bereaved by a drug-related death
Stout, Joshua H and Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin (2025) Death Studies, Early online. pp. 1-12. doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2025.2513992
Mortality after prison release in England and Wales, 2019-2021: a comparative analysis of cause-specific death rates and risk profiles
Slade, Karen et al (2025) Social Science & Medicine, 369. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117821
Characterising benzodiazepine use and the association with non-fatal overdose among people who inject opioids in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Minett-Smith, Megan et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 145. doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104927
Evaluation of nitazene immunoassay test strips for rapid in-situ detection of nitazene and nitazene analogs in illicit drug samples
Marland, Victoria et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, 22. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01287-9
EUDA initial report on the new psychoactive substance
European Union Drugs Agency. (2025) Lisbon: EUDA.
National benchmarking report on implementation of the medication assisted treatment (MAT) standards: Scotland 2024/2025
(2025) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland
An impact evaluation of the Scottish take-home naloxone programme
Adams, Tobias Joseph et al (2025) Health Policy and Technology, 14, (6). doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2025.101072
Effectiveness of methadone versus buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid use disorder: secondary analyses of prospective cohort study data
Naji, Leen et al (2025) BMJ Open, 15, (6). doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095645
Hospital-based methadone and buprenorphine initiation practices by addiction consult services
Cohen, Shawn M et al (2025) JAMA Network Open, 8, (8). 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26077
Behavioral therapy as an adjunct to buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder: a secondary analysis of 4 randomized clinical trials
McHugh, R Kathryn et al (2025) JAMA Network Open, 8, (8). doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.28529
Safer opioid supply clients' values and preferences: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research
Nafeh, Frishta et al (2025) BMJ Mental Health, 28, (1). doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-301629
Are reasons for first using cannabis associated with subsequent cannabis consumption (standard THC units) and psychopathology?
Spinazzola, Edoardo et al (2025)BMJ Mental Health, 28. doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-301810
The impact of childhood trauma and cannabis use on paranoia: a structural equation model approach
Trotta, Giulia et al (2025) Psychological Medicine, 55. 10.1017/S0033291725101190
Self-reported cannabis prices and expenditures from legal and illegal sources five years after legalisation of non-medical cannabis in Canada
Rundle, Samantha Matos et al (2025) Drug and Alcohol Review, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/dar.70009
Problematic internet use and cannabis consumption: a scoping review
Bélisle, Kellie-Anne et al (2025) Preventive Medicine Reports, 57. doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.103210
Health impact of alcohol regulatory interventions: a systematic review of policies in low- and middle-income countries
Malawige, Amila Suranga et al (2025) Health Policy and Planning, Early online. doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaf036
New modelling of alcohol pricing policies, alcohol consumption and harm in Wales: an adaptation of the Sheffield Tobacco and Alcohol Policy Model v2.6.0.
Morris, D et al (2025) Cardiff: Welsh Government
Investigating indicators to assess and support alcohol taxation policy: results from the International Alcohol Control (IAC) study
Casswell, Sally et al. (2025) International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 14, (1), pp. 1-8. doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.8551
Taking pleasure seriously: should alcohol research say more about fun?
Nicholls, James and Hunt, Geoffrey (2025) Addiction, 120, (6), pp. 1075-1081. doi.org/10.1111/add.16747
Historical trends in young adult solitary alcohol use by age and sex from 1977 to 2022
Creswell, Kasey G et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, 49, (8), pp. 1759-1767. doi.org/10.1111/acer.70103
Gut microbiota and alcohol use disorder: a new frontier in treatment and recovery
Skryabin, Valentin (2025) BJPsych Bulletin, Early online. pp. 1-8. 10.1192/bjb.2025.10129
Alcohol use as a modifiable risk factor in cardiology: a qualitative study of patient perspectives in Sweden
Welfordsson, Paul et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328990
Identifying and describing alcohol-related paediatric emergency department attendances amongst under 16 year olds including time trends, incidence rates, and sociodemographic factors associated with alcohol-related harm
Davies, Nicholas et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329502
How do the neurocognitive profiles of FASD and complex trauma compare in the pediatric population?: A scoping review protocol.
Gupta, Rishi et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328845
Behavioral interventions for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a review of systematic reviews
Flake, Eric et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/acer.70129
Knowledge as prevention: a cost-effective intervention to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure
Keating, Orlagh et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/acer.70089
Digital influence: young people’s exposure to the marketing of cigarettes, vapes, unhealthy food/drink and alcohol.
Saunders, Aleks et al (2025) London: Cancer Research UK
Recommendations on interventions for tobacco smoking cessation in adults in Canada.
Thombs, Brett D et al (2025) Canadian Medical Association Journal, 197, (28), E846-E861. doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.241584
Incentives for smoking cessation
Notley, Caitlin et al (2025) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (1). Art. no.: CD004307. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004307.pub7
Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review
Golder, Su et al (2025) Tobacco Control, Early online. doi.org/10.1136/tc-2024-059219
Cognitive drivers of e-cigarette use amongst young Australians: informing prevention strategies in an e-cigarette epidemic
de Vries, Julia M and Kelly, Adrian B (2025) Substance Use & Misuse, Early online. pp. 1-7. doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2025.2540937
Interventions to change vaping harm perceptions and associations between harm perceptions and vaping and smoking behaviours: a systematic review
East, Katherine et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70129
The association between increasing levels of gambling harm and emotional health outcomes for individuals who are below the threshold of disordered gambling: a secondary analysis of health data
Tipping, S et al (2025) Public Health, 247. doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105899
Briefing: Gambling and gaming harms on children and young people
(2025) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland
Factors associated with digital addiction: umbrella review
Han, Yun et al (2025) JMIR Mental Health, 12. doi: 10.2196/66950
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