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Irish-related publications
National Drug Treatment Reporting System 2015 – 2021 alcohol treatment data.

Lynch, Tiina and O'Neill, Derek and Lyons, Suzi (2022) Dublin: Health Research Board.
Joint Committee on Health report on pre-legislative scrutiny of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019.

Joint Committee on Health. (2022) Dublin: Houses of the Oireachtas
Understanding the political organization and tactics of the alcohol industry in Ireland 2009-2018.

Lesch, Matthew and McCambridge, Jim (2022) Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 83, (4), pp. 574-581.
An examination of the diversity of beer and cider products sold in Irish supermarkets in the context of health promotion advice.

Houghton, Frank and O’Mahony, Cáitlín (2022) South Eastern European Journal of Public Health, XVIII. https://doi.org/10.11576/seejph-5720
Ireland, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Guinness, and the imagine one world kimono project.

Houghton, Frank and Houghton, Daisy (2022) MIR [Internet], 29, (117), pp. 176-181.
Alcohol-related acute medical reviews in an acute hospital before and immediately after the introduction of minimum unit pricing.

McKenna-Barry, Matthew and O'Regan, Paud (2022) Irish Journal of Medical Science, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-022-03100-z
Supporting parents: a national model of parenting support services.

(2022) Dublin: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. 
Cannabinoid use for pain relief among people with multiple sclerosis.

Daly, D and Sweeney, BJ (2022) Irish Medical Journal, Early online.
Mobilizing a counterhegemonic idea: empathy, evidence, and experience in the campaign for a Supervised drug Injecting Facility (SIF) in Dublin, Ireland.

McCann, Eugene and Duffin, Tony (2022) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, (In Press) https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12565 
Risk factors for COVID-19-related stress among college-going students.

Bhargav, Madhav and Swords, Lorraine (2022) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, Early online. pp. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2022.33
Working with young people who are engaging in substance use and their families.

Murray, Denis (2022) In: UNESCO child and family research centre 10th biennial international conference. Navigating the future: a compass for youth policy and practice., 9-10 June 2022, NUI Galway. 
Self-harm and suicide in young people: associated risk factors and evidence based interventions. Powerpoint.

Arensman, Ella (2022) In: UCD ACAP Webinar, 15 July 2022, Online.
HSE and national voluntary drug and alcohol sector emerging drug trend monitoring pilot project. Cannabinoid market survey, quarter 1 2022.

HSE drugs.ie. (2022) drugs.ie Feature
Trafficking in persons report 2022.

(2022) Washington D.C.: United States Department of State
UISCE’s strategy to build inclusion & participation of people who use drugs 2022 – 2025.

(2022) Dublin: UISCE.
Criminal Assets Bureau annual report 2021.

(2022) Dublin: Criminal Assets Bureau.
Forensic Science Ireland annual report 2021.

(2022) Dublin: Forensic Science Ireland.
Health and wellbeing annual report 2021.

(2022) Dublin: Health Service Executive.
HSE National Women and Infants Health Programme annual report 2022.

(2022) Dublin: Health Service Executive.
Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme annual report 2021.

(2022) Dublin: Pobal.
Oberstown Children Detention Campus annual report 2021.

(2022) Dublin: Oberstown Children Detention Campus.
Department of Justice annual report 2020.

(2022) Dublin: Department of Justice
Sláintecare Integration Fund end of programme report 2019 — 2021.

(2022) Dublin: Government of Ireland.
Household expenditure on digital services 2020.

(2022) Cork: Central Statistics Office.
Growing up in Cavan.

Cavan: Planet Youth.


Growing up in Monaghan

(2022) Monaghan: Planet Youth. 
Alcohol Action Ireland pre-budget submission: 2023.

(2022) Dublin: Alcohol Action Ireland. 
Annual report of the Policing Authority 2021.

(2022) Dublin: Policing Authority
International publications
Mapping prevention systems in the European Neighbourhood Policy area: a baseline for future monitoring and responses.

(2022) Lisbon: EMCDDA
Webinar: Preparing for the future — applying a foresight approach in the drugs field.

(2022) Lisbon: EMCDDA
EMCDDA trendspotter briefing. Responsiveness and preparedness in addressing drug-related needs of displaced Ukrainians in EU countries bordering Ukraine.

(2022) Lisbon: EMCDDA
Human rights in drug policy: a self-assessment tool.

Pompidou Group. (2022) Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Swift, certain, tough: new consequences for drug possession.

(2022) London: Home Office.
Psychosocial and psychiatric factors preceding death by suicide: A case-control psychological autopsy study involving multiple data sources.

McMahon, Elaine M et al (2022) Suicide & Life-threatening Behavior, Early online.
Trauma-informed Wales: a societal approach to understanding, preventing and supporting the impacts of trauma and adversity.

ACE Hub Wales. (2022) Cardiff: Public Health Wales NHS Trust.
Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent drug use in the UK: the moderating role of socioeconomic position and ethnicity.

Karamanos, A et al (2022) SSM - Population Health, 19. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022
How the war on drugs impacts social determinants of health beyond the criminal legal system.

Cohen, Aliza et al (2022) Annals of Medicine, 54, (1), pp. 2024-2038.
Evidence paper: impact of investing in prevention on demand for statutory children’s social care.

Webb, Calum et al (2022) London: National Children's Bureau.
A universal precautions approach to reducing stigma in health care: getting beyond HIV-specific stigma.

Treloar, Carla et al (2022) Harm Reduction Journal, 19. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00658-w
Monitoring drug use in the digital age: studies in web surveys. The potential for using web surveys to investigate drug sales through cryptomarkets on the darknet.

Kardena, Alexandra and Strizek, Julian (2022) Lisbon: EMCDDA.
A report on British Columbia’s unregulated drug supply: drug checking trends across British Columbia January to December 2021.

Knill, Alison et al (2022) Vancouver: British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.
Community drug checking in music festivals: avenues for future research Shambhala 2019 report.

González-Nieto, Pablo et al (2022) British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.
Emotion regulation in substance use disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Stellern, Jordan et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16001
Delivering alcohol, drugs and multiple risk training and workforce development across Glasgow city.

Scottish Drugs Forum Workforce Development Team (2022) Glasgow: Scottish Drugs Forum.
What is the volume, diversity and nature of recent, robust evidence for the use of peer support in health and social care? An evidence and gap map.

Price, Anna (2022) Campbell Systematic Reviews, 18, (3).
Polysubstance use in young people accessing residential and day treatment services for substance use: substance use profiles, psychiatric comorbidity, and treatment completion.

Mefodeva, Valeriya et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.16008 (In Press)
Changing lives: our final report.

(2022) Edinburgh: Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce.
The national drug-related deaths database (Scotland) report.

(2022) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland.
The association between buprenorphine treatment duration and mortality: a multi-site cohort study of people who discontinued treatment.

Glanz, Jason M et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.15998 (In Press)
Estimating weekly national opioid overdose deaths in near real time using multiple proxy data sources.

Sumner, Steven A et al (2022) JAMA Network Open, 5, (7).
Opioid agonist treatment and risk of death or rehospitalization following injection drug use-associated bacterial and fungal infections: a cohort study in New South Wales, Australia.

Brothers, Thomas D et al (2022) PLoS Medicine, 19, (7).
Geographic trends in opioid overdoses in the US from 1999 to 2020.

Post, Lori Ann et al (2022) JAMA Network Open, 5, (7), e2223631. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.23631
Priority setting for Canadian take-home naloxone best practice guideline development: an adapted online delphi method.

Ferguson, Max et al (2022) Harm Reduction Journal, 19. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00650-4
A rapid assessment of take-home naloxone provision during COVID-19 in Europe.

McDonald, Rebecca et al (2022) International Journal of Drug Policy, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103787 (In Press)
Who is using take-home naloxone? An examination of supersavers.

Eide, Desiree et al (2022) Harm Reduction Journal, 19, (1), p. 65.
Feasibility of prospectively comparing opioid analgesia with opioid-free analgesia after outpatient general surgery: a pilot randomized clinical trial.

Do, Uyen et al (2022) JAMA Network Open, 5, (7).
A longitudinal study of naloxone opioid overdose awareness and reversal training for first-year medical students: specific elements require reinforcement.

Sandhu, Reena K et al (2022) Harm Reduction Journal, 19. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00656-y
Development of a digital platform to improve community response to overdose and prevention among harm reduction organizations.

Claborn, Kasey et al (2022) Harm Reduction Journal, 19. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00636-2 
The experience of safety, harassment and social exclusion among male clients of Sydney’s medically supervised injecting centre.

Dertadian, George and Tomsen, Stephen (2021) International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 10, (4).
Implementation and sustainability of safe consumption sites: a qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis.

Yoon, Grace H et al (2022) Harm Reduction Journal, 19, (1), p. 73. doi: 10.1186/s12954-022-00655-z
Patients' experiences of continued treatment with extended-release naltrexone: a Norwegian qualitative study.

Marciuch, Anne et al (2022) Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 17. doi: 10.1186/s13722-022-00317-2
Association of postsurgical opioid refills for patients with risk of opioid misuse and chronic opioid use among family members.

Agniel, Denis et al (2022) JAMA Network Open, 5, (7). 
Prevalence of HIV preexposure prophylaxis prescribing among persons with commercial insurance and likely injection drug use.

Streed, Carl G et al (2022) JAMA Network Open, 5, (7). 
Can telemedicine optimize the HCV care cascade in people who use drugs? features of an innovative decentralization model and comparison with other micro-elimination strategies.

Nevola, Riccardo et al (2022) Biology, 11, (6). doi: 10.3390/biology11060805
Novel digital approaches to the assessment of problematic opioid use.

Freda, Philip J et al (2022) BioData Mining, 15. doi: 10.1186/s13040-022-00301-1
Acute pancreatitis as a rare adverse event among cannabis users: A systematic review.

Jaiswal, Vikash et al (2022) Medicine, 101, (26), e29822.
A critical review of cannabis in medicine and dentistry: a look back and the path forward.

Abidi, Ammaar H et al (2022) Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, 8, (3), pp. 613-631.
Adjunctive transdermal cannabidiol for adults with focal epilepsy: a randomized clinical trial.

O'Brien, Terence J et al (2022) JAMA Network Open, 5, (7).
Use of electronic cigarettes among cannabis-naive adolescents and its association with future cannabis use.

Sun, Ruoyan et al (2022) JAMA Network Open, 5, (7). 
The declining trend in adolescent drinking: do volume and drinking pattern go hand in hand?

Rossow, Ingeborg et al (2022) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, (13).
Prices, taxes and alcohol use: a systematic umbrella review.

Guindon, G Emmanuel et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15966
Differential impact of minimum unit pricing on alcohol consumption between Scottish men and women: controlled interrupted time series analysis.

Rehm, Jürgen et al (2022) BMJ Open, 12. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054161
Alcohol packaging as a promotional tool: a focus group study with young adult drinkers in Scotland.

Jones, Daniel et al (2022) Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 83, (4), pp. 565-573
Structural differences in adolescent brainscan predict alcohol misuse.

Rane, Roshan Prakash et al (2022) eLife, 11. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.77545
Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020.

GBD 2020 Alcohol Collaborators. (2022) The Lancet, 400, (10347), pp. 185-235.
Practitioner and digitally delivered interventions for reducing hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in people not seeking alcohol treatment: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Beyer, Fiona R et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.15999
Employment status and alcohol-attributable mortality risk-a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Saul, Celine et al (2022) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, (12). doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127354
Solitary alcohol use in adolescence predicts alcohol problems in adulthood: a 17-year longitudinal study in a large national sample of US high school students.

Creswell, Kasey G et al (2022) Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2022.109552 (In Press)
How do we deal with a problem like the alcohol industry? Four lessons on how to protect science based on recent study.

Mitchell, G and McCambridge, Jim (2022) JSAD FastTakes, doi:10.15288/jsad-FT.07.11.2022-6
Associations between moderate alcohol consumption, brain iron, and cognition in UK Biobank participants: observational and mendelian randomization analyses.

Topiwala, Anya et al (2022) PLoS Medicine, 19, (7).
Alcohol consumption at age 18-25 and number of children at a 33-year follow-up: Individual and within-pair analyses of Finnish twins.

Rose, Richard J et al (2022) Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, Early online. doi: 10.1111/acer.14886
Alcohol misuse in patients with alcohol-related liver disease: How can we do better? A narrative review of the literature.

Horrell, Jane et al (2022) Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, Early online. doi: 10.1111/acer.14895
Targeting unmet clinical needs in the treatment of alcohol use disorder.

Lohoff, Falk W (2022) Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.767506
Alcohol use in the year following approach bias modification during inpatient withdrawal: secondary outcomes from a double-blind, multi-site randomized controlled trial.

Manning, Victoria et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.15989
Definition matters: assessment of tolerance to the effects of alcohol in a prospective cohort study of emerging adults.

O'Dean, Siobhan M et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.15991
Behavioral economics indices predict alcohol use and consequences in young men at 4-year follow-up.

Gaume, Jacques et al (2022) Addiction, Early online. doi: 10.1111/add.15986
Women, alcohol, pregnancy and FASD.

Plant, Moira (2022) QNIS Blog.
Risk pathways contributing to the alcohol harm paradox: socioeconomic deprivation confers susceptibility to alcohol dependence greater exposure to aversive experience, internalizing symptoms and drinking to cope.

Shuai, Ruichong (2022) Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16.
The COVID hangover: addressing long-term health impacts of changes in alcohol consumption during the pandemic.

Boniface, Sadie et al (2022) London: Institute of Alcohol Studies.
Brazil in the regional and transatlantic cocaine supply chain: the impact of COVID-19.

Cocaine insights 4. UNODC, CoE Brazil. (2022) Vienna: UNODC.
Related effects of methamphetamine on the intestinal barrier via cytokines, and potential mechanisms by which methamphetamine may occur on the brain-gut axis.

Li, Yuansen et al (2022) Frontiers in Medicine, 9. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.783121
Systems mapping to understand complexity in the association between image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) and harm.

Bates, Geoff et al (2022) International Journal of Drug Policy, 107.
ACMD report – A review of the evidence on the use and harms of 2-benzyl benzimidazole (‘nitazene’) and piperidine benzimidazolone (‘brorphine-like’) opioids.

(2022) London: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Infographic: synthetic cathinones notifications to the Early Warning System and seizures.

(2022) EMCDDA
CCENDU drug alert: Xylazine.

(2022) Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.
N-Propyl Butylone.

Krotulski, Alex J et al (2022) Pennsylvania: Center for Forensic Science Research & Education


Ketamine assisted psychotherapy: a systematic narrative review of the literature.

Drozdz, Sandra J et al (2022) Journal of Pain Research, 15. pp. 1691-1706.
Vaping cannabinoid acetates leads to ketene formation.

Munger, Kaelas R et al (2022) Chemical research in toxicology, (Working paper). 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-v379b-v2
News
Festivalgoers told 'medics are your mates' as HSE pilots drug harm-reduction campaign.

[Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (27 Jul 2022)
Nearly €9 million worth of drugs and cash seized at Irish airports so far in 2022.

[thejournal.ie] McNally, Tadgh (23 Jul 2022)
Public consultation on Transnational Crime Inspection.

[Garda Inspectorate] (18 Jul 2022)
Nearly 1,100 children hospitalised with drug and alcohol-related issues last year.

[newstalk.com] Murphy, Eoghan (15 Jul 2022)
Ministers Donnelly and Butler announce additional €1.9m in funding for women’s mental health services through the Women’s Health Fund.

[Department of Health] (15 Jul 2022)
Recall of certain batches of CBD and hemp oil products due to the presence of unsafe levels of delta‐9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

Food Safety Authority of Ireland. (14 Jul 2022)
Dr Catherine Conlon: A fresh approach to underage drinking – the Icelandic model.

[Irish Examiner] Conlon, Catherine (10 Jul 2022)
Number of drug and phone seizures in Irish prisons rose 20% last year.

[Irish Times] McCarthaigh, Sean (10 Jul 2022)
Warning of a vaping ‘epidemic’ as teens see it as a normal rite of passage.

[Irish Examiner] Griffin, Niamh (10 Jul 2022)
Plastic, coffee, and ink holders used by 'more inventive' drug smugglers.

[Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (07 Jul 2022)
Minister Feighan welcomes publication of National Alcohol Treatment data.

[Department of Health] (04 Jul 2022)
Addiction and drug debts wreak havoc on community.

[Irish Times] Dalton, Eoghan (04 Jul 2022)
Disposable vapes will 'get a whole new generation of people addicted to nicotine', expert warns.

[thejournal.ie] McCarron, Jamie (30 Jun 2022)
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