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Irish-related publications
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Problem drug use in Cork City: a study on prevalence and harms
Muttucomaroe, Lauren et al (2025) Cork: University College Cork

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Early and risky adolescent alcohol use independently predict alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and other
drug use in early adulthood in Ireland: a longitudinal analysis of a nationally representative
cohort
Brennan, Margaret M et al (2025) BMC Public Health, 25. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22262-w

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The prevalence, risk and protective factors and service needs in relation to the co-morbidity of
substance use and neurodiversity.
McDonagh, David et al (2025) Dublin: Trinity College Dublin

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Barriers and enablers of addiction recovery amongst people experiencing homelessness in Dublin,
Ireland: a proposed conceptual framework adapted from the REC-CAP
Ingram, Carolyn et al (2025) Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 172.
doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2025.209669

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An exploration of women and crack cocaine use in Ballymun: trajectories, experiences, and
interventions
O'Reilly, Laura et al (2024) Dublin: Ballymun Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force in partnership with
Urrús/Ballymun Youth Action Project

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“Someone to talk to…” Learning to practice: implementation of Ballymun Infant Parent Support Project
2012-2022
O'Reilly, Laura and Lawless, Marie (2025) Dublin: Ballymun Infant Parent Support Project

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St Ann’s Secondary School - Planet Youth school report 2024
Planet Youth Ireland West. (2025) Galway: Planet Youth and Western Region Drug & Alcohol Task Force

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Commentary on Day et al.: Systemic solutions for recovery support services in Ireland's National
Drug Strategy
Ivers, Jo-Hanna H (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70029

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Faltering care: why mothers experiencing homelessness in Dublin, Ireland, miss their childcare
visits
Lucey, Hannah (2025) Anthropology & Medicine, Early online. pp. 1-16.
doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2025.2453363

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An examination of the enforcement of Ireland’s Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018: a paper tiger
Houghton, Frank and Lombard, John (2024) The Turkish Journal on Addictions, 11, (3). DOI:
10.5152/ADDICTA.2024.24165

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Alcohol Action Ireland submission to the Department of Health on the development of a new National
drugs strategy.
(2025) Dublin: Alcohol Action Ireland

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The impact of secondhand smoke on pub workers: a 2002 consultation for the Irish Office of Tobacco
Control
Repace, James L (2025) Tobacco Use Insights, 18. doi.org/10.1177/1179173x251319860

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Drug-related and drug misuse deaths in Northern Ireland, 2023
(2025) Belfast: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

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Risk environment influences affecting cocaine market expansion within post-conflict Northern Ireland
Niblock, Tobias and Harris, Julie (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 138.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104760

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Homelessness in - Northern Ireland. Comptroller and Auditor General
(2025) Belfast: Northern Ireland Audit Office

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Breaking the cycle: addressing mental health and homelessness through integrated care
(2025) Dublin: Depaul and Mental Health Ireland

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The School Completion Programme revisited
Smyth, Emer et al (2025) Dublin: Economic and Social Research Institute

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How the gambling industry captured sport [audio]
Farrell, Sinead and Cooney, Gavin (2025) Dublin: thejournal.ie.

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A model of governance and management structures for child and adolescent mental health services in
Ireland
(2025) Dublin: College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

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Review of the operation of Section 7A of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993. As amended by
part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017
(2025) Dublin: Department of Justice

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An Garda Síochána annual report 2023
(2025) Dublin: An Garda Siochana

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Office of the Inspector of Prisons annual report 2023
(2025) Longford: Irish Prison Service

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National Self-Harm Registry Ireland annual report 2022-2023
Joyce, Mary et al (2025) Cork: National Suicide Research Foundation

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Belong To LGBTQ+ Youth Ireland annual report 2023
(2025) Dublin: Belong To

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Western Region Drugs Task Force annual report 2024
(2025) Galway: Western Region Drug and Alcohol Task Force

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Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC): enforced deprivation 2024
(2025) Cork: Central Statistics Office

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International publications
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Wastewater analysis and drugs — a European multi-city study
(2025) Lisbon: European Drugs Agency

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Wastewater analysis: measuring illicit drug consumption in 2023 and 2024
(2025) London: Home Office

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European drug checking trends 2018 - 2024
TEDI members. Jones, G et al (2025) Amsterdam: Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network

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EU drug market: MDMA
(2025) European Union Drugs Agency

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Data mining Wales: the annual profile for substance misuse 2023/24. Annual statistical report on
alcohol and drug use from health, social care, education, and criminal justice services datasets in
Wales
King, Savannah and Lines, Rick (2025) Cardiff: Public Health Wales

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For a renewed harm reduction model
Chappard, Pierre and Pourchon, Fabienne (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, 22.
doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01165-4

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City-level drug policies in Portugal: the COVID-19 pandemic as an analyzer of harm reduction
responsiveness in Porto and Lisbon
Vale Pires, Cristina et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, 22. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01179-y

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Does attentional bias predict relapse in addiction? A systematic review of longitudinal studies
Topbaş, Zehra Su et al (2025) Brain and Behavior, 15, (3). doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70300

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Capability framework for the drug and alcohol treatment and recovery workforce
(2025) London: NHS England

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Health behaviour interventions to improve mental health outcomes for students in the university
setting: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Streram, Sandya et al (2025) International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity,
22. doi.org/10.1186/s12966-025-01718-7

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How effective are remote and/or digital interventions as part of alcohol and drug treatment and
recovery support? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Kwan, Irene et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70021

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Measuring recovery among people who have completed residential rehabilitation: Factor structure and
scoring of the substance use recovery evaluator
Hatton, Emma L et al (2025) Drug and Alcohol Review, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/dar.14004

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The feeding recovery handbook. A guide for local services to undertaking successful cooking and
eating activities
(2025) London: Alcohol Change UK

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The relationship between patient-centred care for substance use disorders and patient outcomes: a
scoping review
Myers, Bronwyn et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 139.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104770

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Unmet treatment need: the size of the gap for alcohol and other drugs in Australia
Ritter, Alison and O'Reilly, Keelin (2025) Drug and Alcohol Review, Early online.
doi.org/10.1111/dar.14008

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Prevalence and risk factors of frailty in people experiencing homelessness: a systematic review and
meta-analysis
Cronin, Thomas et al (2025) The Journal of Frailty & Aging, 14, (2).
doi.org/10.1016/j.tjfa.2025.100029

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‘Why don’t we just build it in a square hole?’: developing a multi-component drug outreach service
for young people aged 16–25 in England
Welch, Zoe et al (2025) Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, Early online.
doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2025.2470147

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“Everything is fear based”: Mothers with experience of addiction, child removal and support services
Russell, Lynda et al (2025) Children and Youth Services Review, 170.
doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108161

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National Mission on Drugs: annual monitoring report 2023-2024.
Scottish Government. Population Health Directorate. (2025) Edinburgh: Scottish Government

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Explainer: What is the Commission on Narcotic Drugs? [Webpage]
(2025) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

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Opiates and methamphetamine trafficking on the Balkan route: drug flows, illicit incomes and illicit
financial flows.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2025) Vienna: United Nations

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The death penalty for drug offences: global overview 2024
Girelli, Giada et al (2025) London: Harm Reduction International

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The impact of drug-related law enforcement activity on serious violence and homicide: a systematic
review
RAND Europe. Wadsworth, Elle et al (2025) London: Home Office

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Cocaine perturbs neurodevelopment and increases neuroinflammation in a prenatal cerebral organoid
model
Davis, Jessica L et al (2025) Translational Psychiatry, 15, (1). doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03315-5

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Field-portable device for detection of controlled and psychoactive substances from e-cigarettes
Gardner, Matthew et al (2025) ACS Omega, 10, (8), pp. 7839-7847. doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c08614

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Cerebral venous thrombosis and nitrous oxide intoxication: report of two cases and review of the
literature
Doukhi, Diana et al (2025) Brain and Behavior, 15, (3). doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70394

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Early identification of the use of potent benzylbenzimidazoles (nitazenes) through wastewater
analysis: two years of data from 22 countries
Bade, Richard et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70027

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Explaining the high mortality among opioid-cocaine co-users compared to opioid-only users. a
systematic review
van Amsterdam, Jan and van den Brink, Wim (2025) Journal of Addictive Diseases, 43, (2), pp.
121-131. doi.org/10.1080/10550887.2024.2331522

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Law enforcement drug seizures and opioid-involved overdose mortality
Kral, Alex H et al (2025) JAMA Network Open, 8, (3). doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.1158

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Estimated prevalence of opioid dependence in Scotland 2014/15 to 2022/23
(2025) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland

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Empowering primary care nurse practitioners: a multilevel approach to combating the opioid crisis
Coffee, Zhanette et al (2024) Journal of Advanced Nursing, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/jan.16694

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Initiating buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder without prerequisite withdrawal: an updated
systematic review
Adams, Kathleen K et al (2025) Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 20.
doi.org/10.1186/s13722-025-00548-z

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Prolonged-release opioids: removal of indication for relief of post-operative pain
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. (2025) MHRA Safety Update, 18, (8).

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Bridging the evidence and the politics: implementation trial of supervised injectable opioid
treatment (SIOT) in Australia
Ritter, Alison et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 138.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104749

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Effectiveness of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder interventions: a European and international
data synthesis
European Connor, Jason P et al (2025) Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 275, (2),
pp. 327-339. doi.org/10.1007/s00406-024-01829-5

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Cannabis involvement in posttraumatic stress disorder emergency department visits after cannabis
legalization
Perrault-Sequeira, Laurent et al (2025) The American Journal on Addictions, Early online.
doi.org/10.1111/ajad.70014

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Does cannabis use contribute to schizophrenia? A causation analysis based on epidemiological
evidence
Pourebrahim, Sepehr et al (2025) Biomolecules, 15, (3). doi.org/10.3390/biom15030368

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Patient perspectives on medications for alcohol use disorder: a systematic scoping review
Tomlinson, Devin C et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early online.
doi.org/10.1111/acer.70022

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A systematic review of adolescent alcohol-related harm trends in high-income countries with declines
in adolescent consumption
Vieira, Emma et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70026

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Scottish burden of disease. Future prevalence and burden of chronic liver disease
(2025) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland

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Key terms and concepts in alcohol use and problems: a critical evaluation
Morris, James et al (2025) Substance Use: Research and Treatment, 19.
doi.org/10.1177/29768357241312555

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A network analysis of alcohol-related harms: an exploratory study in United Kingdom adolescents
Percy, Andrew et al (2025) Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 271.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112658

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Alcohol advertising in disguise: exposure to zero-alcohol products prompts adolescents to think of
alcohol-Reaction time experimental study
Bartram, Ashlea et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 139.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104753

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Current and future trends in the consumption, sale and purchasing of alcohol-free and low-alcohol
products in Great Britain, 2014 to 2023
Wilson, Luke B et al (2025) Addiction, Early online, doi.org/10.1111/add.70041

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Identifying family environment profiles in families of children with prenatal alcohol exposure
Felicicchia, Riley J et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early online.
doi.org/10.1111/acer.70016

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Do internalising or externalising behaviours in adolescence mediate the child maltreatment-alcohol
substance use relationship?
Trott, Mike et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70016

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Examining gender in alcohol research: a systematic review of gender differences in how men and women
are studied in alcohol research
Cook, Megan et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 138.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104763

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Combined pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for alcohol use disorder
Minozzi, Silvia et al (2025) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 3, (CD015673).
doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD015673.pub2

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Alcohol and alcoholism associated neurological disorders: current updates in a global perspective
and recent recommendations
Sahu, Prashanti et al (2025) World Journal of Experimental Medicine, 15, (1). doi:
10.5493/wjem.v15.i1.100402

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Infrahealth politics: leveraging bartenders' expertise in alcohol management - an ethnography
Boirot, Alix et al (2025) Social Science & Medicine, 370. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117731

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Alcohol availability at Scottish football. Insights from the ‘Football and Alcohol Scoping Study
(FASST)’ project
Purves, Richard and Martin, Jack (2025) Stirling: University of Stirling

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Recommendations for future research exploring e-cigarette use and later cigarette smoking in young
people: results from a consultation exercise
Conde, Monserrat et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70038

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Alcohol treatment in Australia: client characteristics and patterns of service use, 2013–14 to
2022–23
(2025) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

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The impacts of e-cigarette flavours: an overview of systematic reviews
Livingstone-Banks, Jonathan et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70017

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Trends in smoking prevalence and socio-economic inequalities across regions in England: a population
study, 2006 to 2024
Jackson, Sarah E et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70032

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Vaping cessation interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Heshmati, Javad et al (2025) Tobacco Control, Early online. doi.org/10.1136/tc-2024-058798

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Patterns of use of e-cigarettes and their respiratory effects: a critical umbrella review
La Rosa, Giusy Rita Maria et al (2025) Tobacco Use Insights, 18. doi.org/10.1177/1179173x251325421

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Associations between vaping and self-reported respiratory symptoms in young people in Canada,
England and the US
Brose, Leonie S et al (2024) BMC Medicine, 22. doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03428-6

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Respiratory effects of electronic cigarette use in individuals who never smoked: a systematic review
Caci, Grazia et al (2025) Clinical Medicine, Early online. doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100295

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Neurophysiological correlates of near-wins in gambling: a systematic literature review
Dores, Artemisa Rocha et al (2025) Journal of Gambling Studies, 41. pp. 5-35.
doi.org/10.1007/s10899-024-10327-1

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Emotional intelligence and behavioural addictions: a systematic review
Biolcati, Roberta et al (2025) Journal of Clinical Medicine, 14, (4). doi.org/10.3390/jcm14041125

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Recent advances in understanding how compulsivity is related to behavioural addictions over their
timecourse
Solly, Jeremy E et al (2025) Current Addiction Reports, 12. doi.org/10.1007/s40429-025-00621-2

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The association between internet addiction and adolescents' mental health: a meta-analytic review
Soriano-Molina, Elena et al (2025) Behavioral Sciences, 15, (2). doi.org/10.3390/bs15020116

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News
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Silent epidemic of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder 'coming down the road at us fast and furiously'
[Irish Examiner] Murphy, Ann (31 Mar 2025)

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South American cartels using ‘narco subs’ to smuggle drugs into Europe, warns former garda
Irish Examiner] O'Keeffe, Cormac (28 Mar 2025)

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Teens presenting at EDs with psychosis from legal, semi-synthentic cannabis product, says leading
psychiatrist
[Irish Times] Bowers, Shauna (26 Mar 2025)

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No timeline in place to activate new strict gambling regulations.
[thejournal.ie] O'Cearbhaill, Muiris (18 Mar 2025)

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Garda Commissioner says drug investigations focused on dealers, not addicts
[RTE News] Reynolds, Paul (15 Mar 2025)

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Only two addiction counsellors but 100 on waiting list for services at Cork Prison
[EchoLive.ie] Campbell, Amy (14 Mar 2025)

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'Wild West of the drug market': calls for laws to deal with synthetic cannabinoids.
[Irish Examiner] Murphy, Ann (10 Mar 2025)

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The state of our liver health
[Medical Independent] Dillon, Pauline (10 Mar 2025)

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Fast boats and military-grade guns are new trends in Irish drugs trade, says assistant Garda chief
[Irish Times] Lally, Conor (08 Mar 2025)

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How new gambling rules will impact Irish punters
[Irish Times] Harrison, Bernice (07 Mar 2025)

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Minister Carroll MacNeill requests that Government make Health (Delegation of functions) Order 2025
to the new Ministers of State.
[Department of Health] (05 Mar 2025)

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Minister O'Callaghan establishes GRAI approves appointment of members as new licencing & regulatory
framework for gambling begins
[Department of Justice] (04 Mar 2025)

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Dail Debates
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Oireachtas debates
Question 119 – Departmental data [crime]. [
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Question 683 – Addiction treatment services. [
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Seanad Éireann debate. vol. 304 no. 12 – Road safety: statements. [
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Question 130 – An Garda Siochana. [
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Question 108 – Trade data [alcohol imports]. [
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Question 1471 – Departmental funding. [
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Question 377 – EU Directives [Tobacco]. [
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Question 378 – Inflation rate [vaping]. [
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Question 429 – Tax data [alcohol excise relief] [
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Question 432 – Alcohol sales. [
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Question 118 – Drug dealing. [
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Question 128 – Prison service. [
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Question 513 – Departmental data [drug offences]. [
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Question 494 – Prison service [foetal alcohol spectrum disorder]. [
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Question 519 – Legislative programme [Alcohol Bill]. [
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Question 541– Departmental data [crime] [
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Vol. 1064 No. 1. Policing and community safety: statements. [
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