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Joint Committee on Drugs Use interim report
Joint Committee on Drug Use. (2024) Dublin: Houses of the Oireachtas
Illicit drug use in Limerick City: a stakeholder and policy analysis using multiple streams model
Duopah, Yaa Asuaba et al (2024) The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Early online. doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3856
A qualitative study of psychological stress and coping among persons using crack cocaine
Duopah, Yaa Asuaba et al (2024) BMC Psychology, 12, 537. doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02032-w
“Boxing Clever Cork saved my life”: a snapshot of an early addiction recovery fitness and education program
Brennan, Rebekah and Wright, Mark (2024) Journal of Substance Use, Early online. doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2024.2407621
Dublin city taskforce report
Dublin: Taoiseach's Taskforce for Dublin
Etizolam and Irish drug poisoning deaths
Keenan, Eamon et al (2024) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Early Online. pp. 1-2. doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2024.38
Cocaine-induced destruction of the palate: a diagnostic and management challenge
Maloney, Brian et al (2024) British Dental Journal, 237, (6), pp. 465-471. doi.org/10.1038/s41415-024-7834-5
“They said they couldn’t take me because I was on drugs.” A report examining whether human rights are negated for women in addiction when accessing domestic violence support and refuge in Ireland
Kennedy, Mary et al (2024) Dublin: SAOL Project.
“I don't think I can help you anymore.” Sex workers' experiences of accessing mental health services in Ireland.
Ryan, Paul et al (2024) Sexuality, Gender & Policy, Early online, doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.12112.
Sexual assault of the older person: attendances to the Republic of Ireland's sexual assault treatment unit network
Kane, Daniel et al (2024) Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 103. doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2024.102683
Women attending the sexual assault treatment unit services in the Republic of Ireland: a 7-year review
Kane, D et al (2024) International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Early Online. doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.15947
“In an ideal world, it would be fully decriminalised”: stigma, discrimination, & sex work laws in Scotland
Aotearoa New Zealand, & the Republic of Ireland. Key findings and policy recommendations. Armstrong, Lynzi et al (2024) Victoria University of Wellington
Facing reality: addressing the role of pornography in the pandemic of violence against women and girls
Breslin, Ruth and O'Connor, Monica (2024) Dublin: The Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute.
Local community safety partnership pilot: final evaluation report
Eustace, A et al (2024) Dublin: The Centre for Effective Services
No wrong door. [Video]
Drogheda report implementation plan - 4th published progress report
(2024) Dublin: Department of Justice
Informing the cannabis policy debate: a cross-sectional study of current and former cannabis users in Ireland
James, Philip D and Comiskey, Catherine (2024) Journal of Substance Use, Early Online. doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2024.2412583
A prescription for change: Sinn Féin’s plan to deliver healthcare when you need it
The need for further alcohol control research: a response to a functional magnetic resonance imaging study on alcohol warnings by Gallopel-Morvan et al.
Houghton, Frank (2024) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early Online. doi.org/10.1111/acer.15453
Dark patterns, dark nudges, sludge and misinformation: alcohol industry apps and digital tools
Roy-Highley, Elliott et al (2024) Health Promotion International, 39, (5). doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae037
Alcohol: a commercial driver of crime
(2024) Dublin: Alcohol Action Ireland
Voices of Recovery policy document. Alcohol harm: the recovery position.
(2024) Dublin: Alcohol Action Ireland
Reducing alcohol harms in Northern Ireland: the potential of minimum unit pricing. [Video]
(2024) Institute of Public Health
Children’s school lives: equalities in children’s school lives – the impact of social background
Devine, D et al (2024) Dublin: UCD School of Education
Webinar recording: tobacco and mental health. [Video]
(2024) Institute of Public Health
Code red: young people and their exposure to gambling marketing through media and live sport on the island of Ireland. Final report of the Youth, Gambling Marketing and the Shared Ireland project
Kerr, Aphra et al (2024) Kildare: Maynooth University
The problem gambling podcast 2024. [Video]
(2024) Extern Problem Gambling
Factors affecting implementation of a National Clinical Programme for self-harm in hospital emergency departments: a qualitative study
O'Connell, Selena et al (2024) BMJ Quality & Safety, Early Online. doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017415
An analysis of Population-Based Resource Allocation for health and social care in Ireland
Walsh, Brendan M and Hill, Leonie (2024) Dublin: Economic and Social Research Institute
How to put national standards into practice: key steps for health, mental health and social care services
Health Information and Quality Authority, Mental Health Commission. (2024) Dublin: HIQA and MHC
The Planet Youth survey: Monaghan
(2024) Monaghan: Planet Youth
Dublin City night-time economy strategy
(2024) Dublin: Dublin City Council
Submission DJE 01212-23: prison overcrowding
Prison Overcrowding Response Group. (2024) Dublin: Department of Justice
Prison re-offending statistics 2021.
Parole Board annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: Parole Board
Courts Service annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: Courts Service
Criminal Assets Bureau annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: Criminal Assets Bureau
Oberstown Children Detention Campus annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: Oberstown Children Detention Campus
Ana Liffey Drug Project annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: Ana Liffey Drug Project
Coolmine annual report 2023
Bray Community Addiction Team annual report 2023
(2024) Wicklow: Bray Community Addiction Team CLG
Health Products Regulatory Authority annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: Health Products Regulatory Authority
Activity of acute public hospitals in Ireland 2023 annual report
Healthcare Pricing Office, Health Service Executive. (2024) Dublin: Health Service Executive.
Health Service Executive annual report and financial statements 2023
(2024) Dublin: Health Service Executive
Practitioner Health Matters Programme annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: Practitioner Health Matters Programme
The Rotunda Hospital Dublin annual report 2023
(2024) Dublin: The Rotunda Hospital.
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International publications
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Treatments for stimulant use disorder – a rapid review for policy makers and practitioners
Williams, Andrew James et al (2024) Edinburgh: Drugs Research Network Scotland
Predictors of substance use during treatment for addiction: a network analysis of ecological momentary assessment data
Serre, Fuschia et al (2024) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.16658
The global state of harm reduction 2024.
(2024) London: Harm Reduction International
Infective endocarditis among women who inject drugs
Adams, Janica A et al (2024) JAMA Network Open, 7, (10). doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.37861
Chronic conditions that predominantly impact or affect women differently: substance use disorder. In: Advancing research on chronic conditions in women
Batulan, Z et al (2024) Washington DC: National Academies Press
Women and drugs: gender equality at the heart of drug policies
SPOTLIGHT: Improving inclusion health outcomes [England].
(2024) Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England, 2023
Lifestyles Team, NHS Digital. (2024) Leeds: NHS Digital
Young people returning to alcohol and other drug services as incremental treatment
MacLean, Sarah J et al (2024) Social Science & Medicine, 357. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117181
What can we know about legal minors who inject drugs? Exploring register data in three high-income countries
Barrett, Damon and Turner, Russell (2024) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, Early Online. doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2024.2416590
The effect of Sure Start on youth misbehaviour, crime and contacts with children’s social care
Carneiro, Pedro et al (2024) London: Institute for Fiscal Studies
Looking beyond drugs: a scoping review of recovery in the context of illicit substance use among adolescents and young adults
Eekhoudt, Cameron R et al (2024) International Journal of Drug Policy, 133. doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104598
How are extended reality technologies being used for behavioral prevention and health promotion with children and adolescents? A scoping review
Tomczyk, Samuel and Gottschalk, Signe (2024) Journal of Adolescent Health, Early online. doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.07.028
Childhood origins of social mobility
(2024) London: Social Mobility Commission
Efficacy of social norm interventions on addictive behaviours-a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
Lemmel, Frederike Katharina and Morina, Nexhmedin (2024) Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 31, (5). doi.org/10.1002/cpp.3057
Guide to good practices and intervention models in Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union for addressing drug-related social vulnerabilities
Ibero-American Network of Non-Governmental Organizations working on Drugs and Addictions (RIOD). (2024) COPOLAD III
Care models for coexisting serious mental health and alcohol/drug conditions: the RECO realist evidence synthesis and case study evaluation
Hughes, Elizabeth et al (2024) Health Technology Assessment, 28, (67), pp. 1-100. doi.org/10.3310/JTNT0476
28-country global study on associations between cultural characteristics and Recovery College fidelity
Kotera, Yasuhiro et al (2024) Npj Mental Health Research, 3. doi.org/10.1038/s44184-024-00092-9
Official LxAddictions podcast. In cooperation with the Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA). [Audio]
European Union Drugs Agency, Society for the Study of Addiction. (2024) Lisbon: EUDA
Europol in brief 2023
(2024) The Hague: Europol
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment reporting on the provision of prison needle and syringe programmes in the Council of Europe region
Van Hout, Marie Claire et al (2024) Public Health in Practice, 8. doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2024.100544
Fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine analyte concentrations in urine drug testing specimens
Huhn, Andrew S et al (2024) JAMA Network Open, 7, (10). doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.41063
Cost-effectiveness of treating hepatitis C in clients on opioid agonist therapy in community pharmacies compared to primary healthcare in Australia
Ginnane, Joshua F et al (2024) Journal of Viral Hepatitis, Early Online. doi.org/10.1111/jvh.14015
Reduced injection risk behavior with co-located hepatitis C treatment at a syringe service program: the accessible care model.
Lee, Claire So Jeong et al (2024) PLoS ONE, 19, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308102
Implementation of a community-based LC-UV drug checking service: promising preliminary findings on feasibility and validity
Nicolas, Fabresse et al (2024) Harm Reduction Journal, 21, (1). doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-01098-4
NPS Discovery new drug monographs.
PHILTRE August 2024
Rapid Action Drug Alerts and Response (RADAR) quarterly reports 2024
Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland
Poppers, the politics of exemption and the characteristics of poppers users in the annual English festival study, 2014–23
Measham, Fiona et al (2024) The British Journal of Criminology, doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae055
Identification of the novel synthetic opioid N-pyrrolidino isotonitazene at an Australian drug checking service
Curtis, Blake et al (2024) ChemRxiv, Early online. doi:10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-0mdvs
Psilocybin for clinical indications: a scoping review
Madden, Kim et al (2024) Journal of Psychopharmacology, 38, (10), pp. 839-845. doi.org/10.1177/02698811241269751
Narrowing the gap: the burden of alcohol, drugs, and firearms on U.S. life expectancy
Orgera, Kendal et al (2024) Washington DC: AAMC
Systematic review: the relationship between gabapentinoids, etizolam, and drug related deaths in Scotland
Ciesluk, Beata et al (2024) PLoS ONE, 19, (10). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310655
Deaths linked to potent synthetic opioids [England].
(2024) London: Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales: 2023 registrations
(2024) London: Office for National Statistics.
Communities that HEAL intervention and mortality including polysubstance overdose deaths: a randomized clinical trial
Freisthler, Bridget et al (2024) JAMA Network Open, 7, (10). 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.40006
Suicide in people prescribed opioid-agonist therapy in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2011-2020: a national retrospective cohort study
Fraser, Rosalyn et al (2024) Addiction, Early Online. doi.org/10.1111/add.16680
A call for compassionate opioid overdose response
Russell, Erin et al (2024) International Journal of Drug Policy, 133. doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104587
Understanding the impact of the gut microbiome on opioid use disorder: pathways, mechanisms, and treatment insights.
Kazemian, Negin and Pakpour, Sepideh (2024) Microbial Biotechnology, 17, (10). doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70030
Systematic review on mortality in the elderly on methadone maintenance treatment
Nazmin, Farhana et al (2024) Cureus, 16, (9). 10.7759/cureus.68910
Integrating nursing practice and policy in opioid overdose prevention: analysis of the opioid-overdose reduction continuum of care approach practice guide
Kyei, Evans F et al (2024) Journal of Advanced Nursing, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/jan.16451
Buprenorphine-precipitated withdrawal among hospitalized patients using fentanyl.
Thakrar, Ashish P et al (2024) JAMA Network Open, 7, (9). 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.35895
Is cannabis a slippery slope? Associations between psychological dysfunctioning, other substance use, and impaired driving, in a sample of active cannabis users
Love, Steven et al (2024) PLoS ONE, 19, (10). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310958
Facilitators of and obstacles to practitioners' adoption of harm reduction in cannabis use: a scoping review
Haddad, Roula et al (2024) Harm Reduction Journal, 21. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-01093-9
Cannabis and pain management
Rottnek, Fred et al (2024) Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, 37, (4), pp. 784-789. doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2023.230462R1
NCD prevention: a commercial determinants of health approach
A 10-year vision for a healthier Scotland. (2024) NCD Alliance Scotland
Tackling hospital service burden of alcohol dependence in England: a service evaluation of alcohol care teams (ACTs) and care pathways for integrated care
Webb, Lucy et al (2024) Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, Early Online. doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2024.2409841
Alcohol brief interventions: a review of strategy and recommendations for policy
(2024) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland
The impact of Scotland's minimum unit pricing for alcohol policy on people accessing services for alcohol dependence: a difference-in-difference structured interview study.
Buykx, Penny et al (2024) Drug and Alcohol Review, Early Online. doi.org/10.1111/dar.13960
Reducing alcohol harm: a blueprint for national action
The role of alcohol consumption in the lives of older Australian women: qualitative insights and an agenda for further research, policy and practice
McCarthy, Simone et al (2024) BMC Public Health, Early online. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20083-x
Trends in alcohol expenditure among risky drinkers: a population study in England, 2014–2023
Jackson, Sarah E et al (2024) International Journal of Drug Policy, 133. doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104615
Delay discounting of rewards and losses, alcohol use, and the influence of socioeconomic factors: a cross-sectional online study in frequent drinkers
Pinger, Mathieu et al (2024) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/acer.15469
Reporting controversial issues in controversial industries
Marshall, Donna et al (2023) Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 36, (9), pp. 483-512. doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-07-2020-4684
Understanding the mechanisms of change in social norms around tobacco use: a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions
Lahiri, Shaon et al (2024) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.16685
Model-based appraisal of the potential effects of minimum pricing for tobacco in Scotland
Gillespie, Duncan et al (2024) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland
Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
GBD 2021 Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators. (2024) The Lancet Public Health, 9, (10), e729-e744. 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00166-X
Estimating young adult uptake of smoking by area across the United Kingdom
Jackson, Sarah E et al (2024) Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Early Online. doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntae231
Adverse cardiovascular effects of nicotine delivered by chronic electronic cigarettes or standard cigarettes captured by cardiovascular intrinsic frequencies
Alavi, Rashid et al (2024) Journal of the American Heart Association, 13, (18). doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.035462
The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling
Wardle, Heather et al (2024) The Lancet Public Health, Early Online. doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00167-1
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New gambling regulator to begin work on phased basis next year
[Irish Times] O'Halloran, Barry (29 Oct)
It's time to change our approach to drug use and addiction.
[thejournal.ie] Ruane, Lynn (27 Oct)
Minister of State Colm Burke announces funding for enhanced drug treatment services for homeless people
[Department of Health] (25 Oct)
How ‘pink cocaine' – the drug that killed Liam Payne – is taking a grip in Ireland
[Sunday World] Fetherstonhaugh, Neil (24 Oct)
Drones with 'flaming packages' being used to burn through prison nets and deliver drugs
[thejournal.ie] O'Connor, Niall (19 Oct)
Press release: Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol – an opportunity to save lives across the island of Ireland
[Alcohol Action Ireland] (18 Oct)
Minister Browne welcomes passing of historic legislation to streamline, strengthen and modernise gambling regulation
[Department of Justice] (16 Oct)
Tour of cannabis factory in Canada shows glimpse of road ahead for Ireland
[thejournal.ie] Cullen, Roisin (14 Oct)
Medical Council suggests controls needed on widely used prescription drug
[thejournal.ie] Flynn, Valerie (13 Oct)
Stress and substance misuse are a ‘scourge’ on doctors, says medical council president
[Irish Times] Bowers, Shauna (12 Oct)
Minister of State Colm Burke announces additional €40 million in funding for drug and alcohol services and inclusion health
[Department of Health] (06 Oct)
New dual mental health and addiction programme to start in Cork Prison
[Irish Examiner] (04 Oct)
Ministers for Health announce record €25.8 billion budget for the delivery of health services in 2025
[Department of Health] (02 Oct)
Redefine alcohol for a healthier, safer, and happier Europe campaign
WHO Regional Office for Europe (02 Oct)
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