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 Assessment of the value of youth work in Ireland
 Review of drugs task forces and national structures continues
 HSE targets for drug-related services in 2013
 EU drug markets - a strategic analysis
 National Advisory Committee on Drugs and Alcohol
 Update on drug-related deaths and deaths among drug users
 Substance misuse in the eastern counties of HSE South
 Approaches to drug decriminalisation in disparate countries
 Investigating the links between substance misuse and crime
 Driving under the influence in Europe
 Trial of group psychological intervention for psychosis with cannabis dependence
 Vocational training, employment and addiction recovery
 Soilse graduation
 'Let's talk about drugs'
 In brief
 From Drugnet Europe
 Fourteenth annual Service of Commemoration and Hope
 European Drug Prevention Prize: experiences of an Irish juror
 Recent publications
 Upcoming events
 Drugs: breaking the cycle
 New EU drugs strategy reflects 'new thinking'
Driving under the influence in Europe
by Johnny Connolly

 

This report, Driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol and medicines in Europe – findings from the Druid project, presents the key findings from one of the most comprehensive research projects ever carried out in the EU on drugs (including alcohol) and driving.1

The DRUID research project was established in September 2006 with the aim of estimating the size of the drug-driving problem in a comparable way across Europe and to examine the range of appropriate countermeasures. The project ran for five years and involved 38 consortium partners from 17 EU member states and Norway. The project deliverables include 50 research reports and these inform its recommendations, which look at measures to combat alcohol-impaired driving, illicit drug-impaired driving and medicine impaired driving.2

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  1. EMCDDA (2012) Driving under the influence of drugs, alcohol and medicines in Europe – findings from the DRUID project. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. www.drugsandalcohol.ie/19002
  2. These reports are listed in Annex 3 of the publication and can be downloaded from the DRUID project website at www.druid-project.eu

 

 



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