HRB National Drugs Library e-newsletter volume 21, issue 10

In this issue

Irish-related publications

National Drugs Forum 2025 - programme

(2025) Health Research Board, Department of Health

Stakeholder consultations to inform the development of a successor national drug strategy: summary of key findings

Healy, Grainne and Walsh, Kathy (2025) Dublin: Department of Health

Budget 2026 factsheet for National Drugs Strategy & Inclusion Health

(2025) Dublin: Department of Health

"We knew it was coming: we didn't act" perspectives from people who use drugs and substance use workforce on the impact of delays in implementation of the supervised injection facility and drug checking interventions

Hester, Margaret R et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, 22. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01305-w

A cross-sectional study of alcohol and drug-related medical hospital admissions among youth (15-24-years olds) in Ireland during the COVID-19 hard lockdowns

Gunnigle, Sean and Smyth, Bobby and O'Farrell, Anne (2025) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Early online. pp. 1-6. doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2025.10125

Identifying high-risk groups for self-harm in adolescents using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC): a cross-cohort comparison latent class analysis study

McEvoy, David et al (2025) European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 34, (9), pp. 2843-2857. doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02702-z

The Knowledge of neglect: reflections of mothers experiencing homelessness in Dublin on social care interventions involving their children

Lucey, Hannah (2025) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Early online. doi.org/10.1007/s11013-025-09947-y

Implementing the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) framework in student counselling services in Ireland

Phillips, Grace et al (2025) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Early online. pp. 1-7. doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2025.10127

Understanding variation in the clinical management of self-harm and suicidal ideation in hospital emergency departments: qualitative implementation study

O'Connell, Selena et al (2025) BJPsych Bulletin, Early online. pp. 1-8. doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2025.10161

Opioid agonist treatment (OAT) in Ireland: a multi-setting assessment of key outcomes for people with opioid use disorder and impact of changes introduced to the delivery of OAT during the COVID-19 pandemic

Durand, Louise (2025) PhD thesis, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

The experiences of students in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction in higher education in Ireland

Kavanagh, Francis (2025) Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth

The benefits of hindsight: exploratory analysis of 6 years of Irish coronial data on female suicide mortality across the life course

Cox, Gemma et al (2025) Death Studies, Early online. pp. 1-12. doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2025.2569619

Our health, our voices: women's experiences of healthcare in Ireland listening forum

Women's Health Taskforce. (2025) Dublin: Department of Health

Enabling framework for organisational culture

(2025) Dublin: Health Service Executive

From denial to pregnancy and motherhood to 'gender informed'? Women and Ireland's alcohol and drug strategies, 1996-2025

Windle, James and Cronin, Joan (2025) Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, Early online. doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2025.2566004

Burden of liver cancer in the European region from 1990 to 2021: a sub-analysis of the global burden of disease study.

Kazi, Onika et al (2025) Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 87, (7), pp. 4053-4065. doi.org/10.1097/ms9.0000000000003433

Estimating the burden of alcohol on the health of Northern Ireland

Angus, Colin (2025) Sheffield: University of Sheffield

Parents matter – vaping products & psychoactive substances: what you should know as a parent

[Video] HSE Health and Wellbeing. (2025) Health Service Executive

Examining tobacco-control enforcement in Ireland 2014-2023: an observational study

Houghton, Frank and Lombard, John (2025) Perspectives in Public Health, Early online. doi.org/10.1177/17579139251371974

Citywide 30th anniversary event presentations

Citywide (2025) In: Fergus McCabe Summer School, 1 September 2025, Dublin

An environmental risk assessment of contamination of lakes and rivers in Northern Ireland with pharmaceuticals, personal care products and drugs of abuse

Hunter, William Ross et al (2025) Environmental Science. Processes & impacts, 27, (10), pp. 3163-3179. doi.org/10.1039/d5em00435g

Fact-checked or fiction? Where is the scrutiny of alcohol industry’s tall tales?

(2025) Alcohol Action Ireland blog

Unknown knowns: the non-enforcing of gambling legislation in Ireland and the function of opaque and divided information systems

Houghton, Frank (2025) Radical Statistics, 137. pp. 42-51

Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland strategy statement 2025 – 2027

(2025) Dublin: Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland

Gaming's hidden gamble: are we betting more than we realise?

Sánchez Belmar, Carlos and Subramanian, Narayanan (2025) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Early online. pp. 1-3

Coolmine annual report 2024

(2025) Dublin: Coolmine

Novas annual report 2024

(2025) Dublin: Novas

Ruhama annual report 2024

(2025) Dublin: Ruhama

Department of Education and Youth’s statement of strategy 2025 – 2028

(2025) Dublin: Department of Education and Youth

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