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This July issue of the newsletter includes links to Irish and international publications related to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. 

 

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Irish-related publications
National Drug Treatment Reporting System 2014 – 2020 alcohol treatment data.

O'Neill, Derek; Carew, Anne Marie & Lyons, Suzi (2021) Dublin: Health Research Board.


National Drug Treatment Reporting System 2014 – 2020 drug treatment data

Kelleher, Cathy and Carew, Anne Marie and Lyons, Suzi (2021) Dublin: Health Research Board.


Annual report on the activities of Irish psychiatric units and hospitals 2020.

Daly, Antoinette and Craig, Sarah (2021) Dublin: Health Research Board.


Reducing harm, supporting recovery progress report 2019.

(2020) Dublin: Department of Health. Drugs Policy and Social Inclusion Unit  


Online news media reporting of ketamine as a treatment for depression from 2000 to 2017.

Gallagher, Bronagh et al (2021) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Early online.


A cross-section observational study on the seroprevalence of antibodies to COVID-19 in patients receiving opiate agonist treatment

Fenton, Fiona et al (2021) Irish Journal of Medical Science, Early online.


Engagement insight: Ballyfermot Star.

Quality Matters (2021) Dublin: Ballyfermot STAR.


Guidelines for parents.

(2021) Galway: Western Region Drug and Alcohol Task Force


Addressing physical health in mental illness: the urgent need to translate evidence-based interventions into routine clinical practice.

O'Donoghue, B (2021) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 38, (1), pp. 1-5.


'They don't actually join the dots': an exploration of organizational change in Irish opiate community treatment services.

Peter Kelly et al (2021) Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Early online, 108557. (In Press)


Relentless caring: trying something new. An evaluation of the targeted response with youth TRY project.

Mulcahy, Jane (2021) Dublin: Slaintecare, Pobal and Government of Ireland.


Ireland and the Europe 2020 Strategy: a review of the social inclusion aspects of Ireland’s National Reform Programme in the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy.

(2021) Dublin: Social Justice Ireland


Piecing it together: supporting children and families with a family member in prison in Ireland.

(2021) Dublin: Irish Penal Reform Trust


A clinical investigation into the ability of subjects with lung disease to provide breath specimens using the EvidenzerIRL evidential breath analyser in alcohol intoxicant driving in criminal justice evidence.

Dowling, Sarah et al (2021) Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 80, p. 102175.


HSE social prescribing framework. Mainstreaming social prescribing in partnership with community & voluntary organisations.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme, HSE Health and Wellbeing (2021) Dublin: Health Service Executive.


Letter: Health information and warnings on alcohol packaging in Ireland: it is time to progress the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018.

Critchlow, Nathan et al (2021) Irish Journal of Medical Science.


6 month road safety review January to 15 July 2021.

Burns, Velma (2021) Dublin: Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochána.


Drogheda report implementation plan.

(2021) Dublin: Department of Justice.


Detached youth support research report.

Detached Youth Support Project (2021) Graz: LOGO jugendmanagement gmbh.


Trafficking in persons report 2021

(2021) Washington DC: Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, US Department of State.


Comparative price levels of consumer goods and services.

Eurostat (2021) Eurostat Statistics Explained.


The impact of Minimum Unit Pricing on young people in Northern Ireland.

Addidle, Aaron (2021) Belfast: Northern Ireland Alcohol and Drugs Alliance.


Men’s health in numbers: Northern Ireland men’s health report card 2021.

Devine, P (2021) Dublin: Men’s Health Forum in Ireland.


Deaths from novel psychoactive substances in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: evaluating the impact of the UK psychoactive substances act 2016.

Deen, Adrian A et al (2021) Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2698811211026645.


Families, alcohol & COVID-19 - a detailed analysis of the drinking practices of adults in households with children during the ongoing pandemic. Barometer 2020.

(2021) Dublin: Drinkaware.


Turning words into actions: the strategic plan of Ana Liffey Drug Project 2021 & 2022.

(2021) Dublin: Ana Liffey Drug Project.


Alcohol Action Ireland annual review 2020.

(2021) Dublin: Alcohol Action Ireland.


Forensic Science Ireland annual report 2020.

(2021) Dublin: Forensic Science Ireland.


Office of the State Pathologist annual report 2020.

(2021) Dublin: Department of Justice


Courts Service annual report 2020.

(2021) Dublin: Courts Service.


Irish Prison Service annual report 2020

(2021) Dublin: Irish Prison Service


Probation service annual report 2020.

(2021) Dublin: Probation Service.


Statement of strategy 2021-2023. Probation works for community safety.

(2021) Dublin: Probation Service.


Coolmine annual report 2020.

(2021) Dublin: Coolmine.


Tusla Child and Family Agency corporate plan 2021 – 2023.

(2021) Dublin: Tusla.


Health Service Executive annual report and financial statements 2020.

HSE (2021) Dublin: Health Service Executive


International publications
Global burden of cancer in 2020 attributable to alcohol consumption: a population-based study.

Rumgay, Harriet et al (2021) The Lancet Oncology, Early online.


What treatment and services are effective for people who are homeless and use drugs? A systematic 'review of reviews'.

Miler, Joanna Astrid et al (2021) PLoS ONE, 16, (7), e0254729


Manual: increasing access to hepatitis C testing and care for people who inject drugs. Identifying barriers to and opportunities for supporting hepatitis C testing and care in drug services: a participatory diagnostic process.

EMCDDA (2021) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.


Elimination barometer on viral hepatitis among people who inject drugs in Europe.

EMCDDA (2021) 


Increase access to hepatitis C (HCV) testing and care in drug services — a toolkit.

EMCDDA (2021)


Professional education to reduce provider stigma toward harm reduction and pharmacotherapy.

Sulzer, Sandra H et al (2021) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, Early online.


An unknown invisible intrusion. Impact of an adult family member’s problematic substance use on family life: a meta-ethnography.

Lindeman, Sari Kaarina et al (2021) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy


Briefing paper. Treatment, prevention and harm reduction interventions for different forms of ATS use.

Rigoni, Rafaela et al (2021) Amsterdam: De Regenboog Groep; Correlation-European Harm Reduction Network.


StatPearls [Internet, Teaching resource].

Statspearl (2021) Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing.


Standardised alcohol & other drug (AOD) screening & withdrawal tools. [Webpage].

National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (2021) 


Living systematic review on cannabis and other plant-based treatments for chronic pain.

McDonagh, Marian S et al (2021) Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.


Weeding out the truth: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the transition from cannabis use to opioid use and opioid use disorders, abuse or dependence.

Wilson, Jack et al (2021) Addiction, Early online.


Precision mental health care for cannabis use disorder: utility of a bioSocial Cognitive Theory to inform treatment.

Gullo, Matthew J et al (2021) Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, p. 643107.


Development over time of the population-attributable risk fraction for cannabis use disorder in schizophrenia in Denmark.

Hjorthøj, Carsten et al (2021) JAMA Psychiatry.


Differences in cannabis perceptions among Canadian adolescent boys and girls.

Goodman, A (2021) Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.


Association between secondhand marijuana smoke and respiratory infections in children.

Johnson, Adam B et al (2021) Pediatric Research.


Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use.

Sumnall, Harry et al (2021) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, Early online.


Opioid agonist therapy: a synthesis of Canadian guidelines for treating opioid use disorder.

(2021) Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental health.


Opioid substitution treatment: service self-assessment tool.

2021) London: Public Health England.


Opioid substitution treatment: guide for keyworkers.

(2021) London: Public Health England.


BOOST: an elearning programme on opioid substitution treatment (OST) for drug treatment and recovery workers.

Public Health England. (2021) London: Health Education England eLearning for Healthcare.


Factors associated with opioid overdose during medication-assisted treatment: How can we identify individuals at risk?

Au, Vivian Y O et al (2021) Harm Reduction Journal, 18, (71).


Heroin-Assisted Treatment and the United Nations international drug control apparatus.

. Hallam, Christopher (2021) Swansea: Global Drug Policy Observatory.


Knowledge & Library Services (KLS) evidence briefing: What are the facilitators and barriers to the uptake of low dead space injecting equipment for people who inject drugs?

Gledhill, Rachel (2021) London: Public Health England.


High-dose buprenorphine induction in the emergency department for treatment of opioid use disorder.

Herring, Andrew A et al (2021) JAMA Network Open, 4, (7), e2117128.


Treatment of opioid dependence with depot buprenorphine (CAM2038) in custodial settings.

Dunlop, Adrian J et al (2021) Addiction, Early online.


Role of community drug and alcohol services in physical healthcare for people who use illicit opioids: a qualitative study of clinical staff in the UK.

Bradbury, Molly and Lewer, Dan (2021) BMJ Open, 11, e046577.


Mortality and concurrent use of opioids and hypnotics in older patients: a retrospective cohort study.

Ray, Wayne A et al (2021) PLoS Medicine, 18, (7), e1003709. (Submitted)


Prevalence and childhood precursors of opioid use in the early decades of life.

Shanahan, Lilly et al (2021) JAMA Pediatrics, 175, (3), pp. 276-285.


Chemsex and harm reduction for gay men and other men who have sex with men.

(2021) London: Harm Reduction International.


Investigating defensive functioning and alexithymia in substance use disorder patients.

Taurino, Alessandro et al (2021) BMC Psychiatry, 21, (337)


Controlled drinking-non-abstinent versus abstinent treatment goals in alcohol use disorder: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression.

Henssler, Jonathan et al (2021) Addiction, 116, (8), pp. 1973-1987.


Alcohol's harm to others: does the drinking location matter?

Moan, Inger Synnøve & Brunborg, Geir Scott (2021) Substance Use & Misuse, pp. 1-7.


Protecting women and girls from tobacco and alcohol promotion.

Feeny, Emma et al (2021) BMJ, 374, n1516.


Exploring the experiences of social workers in working with children suspected to have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Gilbert, David J et al (2021) Adoption & Fostering.


‘It’s like a safety haven’: considerations for the implementation of managed alcohol programs in Scotland.

Parkes, Tessa et al (2021) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy.


Special issue "alcohol-related violence: the impact of drinking pattern, drinker personality and drinking context".

(2021) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, (13).


Briefing: LGBTQ+ people and alcohol.

(2021) London: Institute of Alcohol Studies.


A digital campaign to increase awareness of alcohol-exposed pregnancy.

Reynolds, Róisín et al (2021) Perspectives in Public Health, 141, (3), pp. 124-126.


Webinar: Parents with drug and alcohol problems: how can we provide the best interventions?

Addiction Professionals, Adfam. (2021) Addiction Professionals.


Critical role of general practitioners in preventing readmission following emergency department alcohol screening and brief intervention management of alcohol-related problems.

Hazeldine, Simon et al (2021) Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 12, 21501327211027437.


Subjective executive function deficits in hazardous alcohol drinkers.

Powell, Anna et al (2021) Journal of Psychopharmacology.


Monitoring alcohol consumption and harm during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(2021) London: Public Health England.


Living under coronavirus and injecting drugs in Bristol (LUCID-B): a qualitative study of experiences of COVID-19 among people who inject drugs.

Keston, Joanna M et al (2021) International Journal of Drug Policy, Early online. (In Press)


Impact of Melbourne’s second wave of COVID-19 and associated restrictions among people who inject drugs: findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System.

Eddy, Sarah et al (2021) Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney.


Psychosocial interventions and immune system function: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

Shields, Grant S et al (2020) JAMA Psychiatry, 77, (10), pp. 1031-1043.


Cardiovascular and temperature adverse actions of stimulants.

Docherty, JR and Alsufyani, HA (2021) British Journal of Pharmacology, 178, (13), pp. 2551-2568.


Editorial: Out of the night-time and into the day: Ketamine and MDMA as therapies for mental disorders.

Davey, Christopher G (2021) Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.


Study of recovery community organization participants over time shows peer-based recovery support activities are associated with modest improvement in recovery capital.

(2021) Recovery Research Institute Research Bulletin.


Case report of an acute myocardial infarction after high-dose recreational nitrous oxide use: a consequence of hyperhomocysteinaemia?

Oomens, Thomas et al (2021) European Heart Journal. Case Reports, 5, (2), ytaa557.


Drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2020

(2021) National Records of Scotland. 


Independent report. Review of drugs part two: prevention, treatment, and recovery.

Black, Dame Carol (2021) London: Department of Health and Social Care.


Improving drug treatment services in England: models for commissioning and accountability.

Robertson, Ruth et al (2021) London: The Kings Fund.


Preventing HIV infections at the time of a new pandemic.

Global HIV Prevention Coalition (2021) Geneva: UNAIDS


Trends in the availability and type of drugs sold on the internet via cryptomarkets, May 2020 - May 2021.

Pedersen, Max et al (2021) Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre


WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2021: addressing new and emerging products.

(2021) Geneva: World Health Organization.


E-cigarettes versus nicotine replacement treatment as harm reduction interventions for smokers who find quitting difficult: randomized controlled trial.

Myers Smith, Katie et al (2021) Addiction, Early online. (In Press)


Predictors of recruitment and retention in randomized controlled trials of behavioural smoking cessation interventions: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis.

Bricca, Alessio et al (2021) Addiction, Early online.


Characteristics of gamers who purchase loot box: a systematic literature review.

Yokomitsu, Kengo et al (2021) Current Addiction Reports, pp. 1-13.


News
Construction to begin on €30m medical centre for Dublin’s homeless.

[thejournal.ie] Duffy, Ronan (28 Jul 2021)


Recall of various CBD food supplements due to the presence of unsafe levels of delta‐9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

[Food Safety Authority of Ireland] (27 Jul 2021)


Drug use in Dublin: ‘People are passing all the time. It’s disgusting, for me, for them’.

[Irish Times] Holland, Kitty (26 Jul 2021)


Online consultation on the Global alcohol action plan, first draft.

[World Health Organization] (24 Jul 2021)


Ex-garda fighting Europe's €14 billion drugs trade says Irish gangs are 'top of the pyramid'.

[thejournal.ie]  O'Connor, Niall (23 Jul 2021)


Minister Feighan says HRB Drug Treatment Data for 2020 highlights importance of health-led response to drug and alcohol use.

[Department of Health] (20 Jul 2021)


One corner in Ballymun, four hours, 42 drug deals: a crack epidemic.

[RTE investigates] McNulty, Fran (20 Jul 2021)


Minister for Health announces developments to Medical Cannabis Access Programme – increasing availability and benefiting eligible patients around Ireland.

[Department of Health] (19 Jul 2021)


HSE to directly pay cost of prescriptions for eligible patients treated under Ministerial Licence.

[Department of Health] (19 Jul 2021)


Court decision halting Dublin injecting centre 'a real setback' for Cork.

[Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (18 Jul 2021)


Irish Examiner view: Journalist's death compounds power of drug gangs.

[Irish Examiner] (16 Jul 2021)


Permission for drug injection facility near school rejected.

[Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (15 Jul 2021)


Gambling watchdog to be ‘powerful’, says Minister.

[Irish Times] O'Halloran, Marie (13 Jul 2021)


Thousands of our citizens abandoned to a life captured by alcohol.

[Alcohol Action Ireland] (13 Jul 2021)


Irish fourth-worst gamblers in EU as move online accelerates.

[Irish Times] Hutton, Brian (12 Jul 2021)


Travelling drugs, alcohol and sexual health unit launched in Cork and Kerry.

[breakingnews.ie] (10 Jul 2021)


'We need to stop burying our heads in the sand': Cork's Lord Mayor on need to address causes of addiction.

[EchoLive.ie] Burke, Roisin (09 Jul 2021)


Dublin drugs task force suspension only 'temporary', says drugs strategy minister.

[Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (09 Jul 2021)


Paddy Power founder: Gambling a 'major social problem' .

[RTE News] McMorrow, Conor (08 Jul 2021)


Legalising drugs: ‘Drug use should be treated as normal adult behaviour’.

[Irish Times] Freyne, Patrick (03 Jul 2021)


Gardaí to target street drug dealing as burden of Covid-19 duties eases.

[Irish Times] Gallagher, Conor (02 Jul 2021)


Alcohol is Ireland’s biggest drug problem.

[Alcohol Action Ireland] (01 Jul 2021)


New HRB report examines drug use in Ireland.

Health Research Board. (01 Jul 2021)


Minister Feighan welcomes publication of the National Drug and Alcohol Survey 2019/20 by the Health Research Board.

[Department of Health] (01 Jul 2021)


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