Figure 1: HRB National Drugs Library

The HRB National Drugs Library and its specialist librarians support those working to develop the knowledge base around alcohol and other drug use in Ireland. We have an online collection of over 30,000 freely available items, including articles, reports, Oireachtas debates, news, videos and audiocasts. We also provide a range of online resources that enable quick access to data and information. They can all be found on our website at https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/

In 2025, we completed a website refresh to make accessing these resources even easier. We also added some new useful data sources.

The Alcohol statistics dashboard provides current information on a range of alcohol indicators for Ireland, including:

• Per capita alcohol use
• Alcohol-related hospital discharges
• Alcohol-related mortality
• Alcohol-related criminal behaviour
• Alcohol-related prescriptions
• Treatment for alcohol use
• Alcohol availability

See: https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/alcohol_statistics_dashboard

The Emerging trends webpage has links to key documents and other resources relating to the monitoring and risk assessment of new and emerging drug trends. See: https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/emerging_trends

The Prevention webpage provides links to items in our collection related to all aspects of drug prevention. 

See: https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/prevention_data

View our website to see these and other resources that we hope you will find useful, including the Addiction treatment services interactive map https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/services_map and Data tables

https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/tables/

We have also created a LinkedIn page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hrb-national-drugs-library/ where you can follow news and updates from the library.

Figure 2: Addiction treatment services interactive map