HRB National Drugs Library e-newsletter volume 17, issue 7

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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.

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