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Drug and Alcohol Trends Monitoring System (DATMS) 2024: year 9
Robinson, Janet and Doherty, Jim (2025) Dublin: Blanchardstown Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force

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Prevention of adolescent stimulant drug use: do the home life environment and extracurricular
activities influence this? Findings from the Irish Planet Youth Survey
Daly, Fionn P et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330489

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Protocol for modelling the risk of alcohol-attributable mortality and hospital admission in Ireland
(2025) Dublin: Health Information and Quality Authority

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HHC (Hexahydrocannabinol).
(2025) Dublin: Department of Health

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A harm-reduction approach to drug use
Watters, Niall (2025) Dublin: Oireachtas Library and Research Service

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Sentencing guidelines
McLaughlin, Karen (2025) Dublin: Oireachtas Library and Research Service

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HSE Talking health and wellbeing podcast #109 Overdose Awareness
(2025) HSE

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Trends in analgesia prescribing in primary care in Ireland and England between 2014 and 2022: a
repeated cross-sectional study
Mattsson, Molly et al (2025) British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Early online.
doi.org/10.1002/bcp.70174

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'I wish it were more often told to people before they are prescribed these medications how hard it
is to get off them': a qualitative descriptive analysis of free-text responses to a survey on
reducing and stopping psychiatric medication
Boland, Miriam et al (2025) Health Expectations, 28, (4). doi.org/10.1111/hex.70384

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Deficits in alcohol enforcement legislation in Ireland: bottomless brunches
McGrath, Niamh et al (2025) Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health, 20, (2).
doi.org/10.54103/2282-0930/28981

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Alcohol’s cost to the workplace
(2025) Dublin: Alcohol Action Ireland

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Understanding young adults’ drinking practices and experiences with alcohol in Ireland
(2025) Dublin: Drinkaware

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Trends and description of inpatient admissions for eating disorders among children and adolescents
in Ireland: 2018-2022.
Lovett, Harriet et al (2025) Journal of Eating Disorders, 13. doi.org/10.1186/s40337-025-01372-1

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E-scooter-related maxillofacial injuries: outcome of recent legislation change
Jung, Min Seo et al (2025) Irish Journal of Medical Science, Early online.
doi.org/10.1007/s11845-025-04025-z

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Health and societal burden of tobacco smoking in Ireland: a life table modelling study.
Valentelyte, Gintare et al (2025) Public Health, 247. doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105880

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Safety and beyond? Exploring children's priorities for their participation in the child protection
and welfare process
Gilligan, Robbie et al (2025) Child Abuse & Neglect, Early online.
doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107614

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Causes of fires statistics [Ireland].
(2025) Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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Homelessness, poor housing and the impact on children 2025
(2025) Dublin: Barnardos

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National Suicide Research Foundation annual report 2024
(2025) Dublin: National Suicide Research Foundation

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Bray Community Addiction Team annual report 2024
(2025) Wicklow: Bray Community Addiction Team CLG

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Clondalkin Drug & Alcohol Task Force Project Management CLG financial statements for the year ended
31 December 2024.
(2025) Dublin: Clondalkin Drug and Alcohol Task Force

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Probation Service annual report 2024
(2025) Dublin: Probation Service

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Prison visiting committee annual reports 2023
Prison visiting committees. (2025) Department of Justice

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Merchants Quay Ireland Directors' report and financial statements 2024
(2025) Dublin: Merchants Quay Ireland

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Tusla annual report and financial statements 2024
(2025) Dublin: Tusla

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State of the Nation's children 2024
(2025) Dublin: Department of Children, Disability and Equality

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The National Maternity Hospital Holles Street annual report 2024
(2025) Dublin: National Maternity Hospital

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National Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) annual report 2024
Eogan, Maeve (2025) Dublin: National Sexual Assault Treatment Unit

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Women in recovery - rapid review of evidence
(2025) Glasgow: Scottish Recovery Consortium.

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Guidance manual for greenspace programmes that support people with poor mental health and substance
use challenges
Masterton, Wendy et al (2025) Stirling: University of Stirling

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A systematic review of reviews on comprehensive community initiatives to prevent or reduce alcohol
and other drug harms
Gates, Peter John et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70153

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Preventing substance use-related harms among young people in Scotland. Evidence, knowledge gaps, and
systems solutions
Falzon, Danilo (2025) Edinburgh: Drug Research Network Scotland

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Drug Education Forum podcast. [Video]
(2025) UK: Drug Education Forum

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Gaps in the engagement of people with lived and living experience and caregivers in mental health
and substance use health research: a qualitative study of untapped potential
Hawke, Lisa D et al (2025) Health Expectations, 28, (4). doi.org/10.1111/hex.70393

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Beyond stigma: understanding and using human rights in recovery
Bennett, Tom (2025) SHAAP Blog

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Substance use disorders: a call for a staging paradigm
Bachi, Keren et al (2025) Translational Psychiatry, 15. doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03484-3

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From environmental disasters to emerging drugs; a framework to understand, map and assess
drug-related early warning systems
Freestone, Jack et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 145.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104946

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Vienna after consensus: report of the 68th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
(2025) London: International Drug Policy Consortium

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The responsibility of health: shifting the focus from individuals to systems
Tubeuf, Sandy et al (2025) The Lancet, 10, (3). DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00013-1

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Talking about wealth inequality
Kerr, Sarah et al (2025) York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

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Identifying policy options to tackle health inequalities: policy analysis and opportunities for
learning for Wales
Jones, Lisa et al (2025) Cardiff: Public Health Wales

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Welsh studies: Public Health Wales, ADR Wales, Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Databank and
Welsh Government.
Substance misuse, health service contact and risk of mortality: a data linkage study in Wales.
Bailey, Grace et al (2025) Cardiff [link removed] [
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Data explained: Welsh National Database for Substance Misuse (WNDSM) data quality audit and
considerations. Phillips, Ryan et al (2025) Cardiff [link removed] [
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Investigating the association between adult substance misuse and health and criminal justice
outcomes of children in the household. Evans, Hywel Turner et al (2025) Cardiff
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Long-term outcomes of people treated for substance misuse in Wales - a data linkage study. O’Gorman,
Lauren et al (2025) Cardiff [link removed] [
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Maternal substance misuse-related foetal anomalies: a data linkage study in Wales. Farr, Ian et al
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Potential opportunities to reduce the escalation of substance misuse: a retrospective observational
data linkage study in Wales. Ohaeri, Columbus et al (2025) Cardiff
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Systematic review of forensic mental health patients on conditional discharge: part one -
quantitative findings, methodology, limitations and future research
Kilbane, Sarah et al (2025) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology,
Early online. doi.org/10.1177/0306624X251357615

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European Union Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment – The changing DNA of serious and
organised crime
Europol. (2025) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union

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A systematic review of substance misuse treatment processes and outcomes as implemented in prisons
for men in the UK.
Barnett, Kim et al (2025) Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Early online.
doi.org/10.1002/cbm.70008

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European toolkit for the elimination of viral hepatitis in prisons (EuroHePP).
European Union Drugs Agency. (2025) Lisbon: EUDA

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A systematic review of reviews on comprehensive community initiatives to prevent or reduce alcohol
and other drug harms
Gates, Peter John et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70153

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Navigating surveillance: the experience of prenatal women who use or who are in treatment for using
drugs
Radcliffe, Polly et al (2025) The British Journal of Social Work, Early online.
doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf161

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Concurrent use and association of patient-reported experience and outcome measures in psychiatric
and substance use disorder care: a scoping review
Kjøllesdal, Marte Karoline Råberg et al (2025) Frontiers in Health Services, 5.
doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2025.1620809

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Comprehensive review on association of bipolar disorder and substance abuse: dual diagnosis and
treatment approaches
Bonner-Reid, Felicia T et al (2025) Cureus, 17, (6). DOI: 10.7759/cureus.86363

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ADHD drug treatment and risk of suicidal behaviours, substance misuse, accidental injuries,
transport accidents, and criminality: emulation of target trials
Zhang, Le et al (2025) BMJ, 390, doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-083658

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Financial incentives for substance abstinence: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Phillips-Chantelois, Damon et al (2025) Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 27, (8), pp. 1319-1331.
doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaf038

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Outreach health-care services for people experiencing exclusion in high-income countries
Johnson, Luke et al (2025) The Lancet Public Health, Early online. DOI:
10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00144-6

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"Injecting yourself there is stigma around it; taking a few tablets is not too bad, is it?":
understanding perceptions and preferences of anabolic-androgenic steroid route of administration.
Cox, Luke et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, 22. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01198-9

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Characterizing ‘atmosphere’: exploring determinants of regular service attendance amongst integrated
supervised consumption site clients in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Scher, Benjamin D et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, Early online

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(Dealing with) illegal drugs and “unwanted land-use”: a socially inclusive future planning
imagination for drug consumption rooms
Boland, Philip et al (2025) Journal of Planning Education and Research, Early online.
doi.org/10.1177/0739456X251318245

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Brief intervention information: bacterial infections
(2025) Edinburgh: Scottish Drugs Forum

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Wound aware: a resource for commissioners and providers of drug services
(2025) London: Department of Health & Social Care

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Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators to healthcare engagement for people with
injecting-related invasive infections using a social ecological framework
Attwood, Lucy O et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70175

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Stigmatization in the pre-death interactions of family and friends bereaved by a drug-related death
Stout, Joshua H and Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin (2025) Death Studies, Early online. pp. 1-12.
doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2025.2513992

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Mortality after prison release in England and Wales, 2019-2021: a comparative analysis of
cause-specific death rates and risk profiles
Slade, Karen et al (2025) Social Science & Medicine, 369. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117821

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Characterising benzodiazepine use and the association with non-fatal overdose among people who
inject opioids in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Minett-Smith, Megan et al (2025) International Journal of Drug Policy, 145.
doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104927

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Evaluation of nitazene immunoassay test strips for rapid in-situ detection of nitazene and nitazene
analogs in illicit drug samples
Marland, Victoria et al (2025) Harm Reduction Journal, 22. doi.org/10.1186/s12954-025-01287-9

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EUDA initial report on the new psychoactive substance
European Union Drugs Agency. (2025) Lisbon: EUDA.

EUDA initial report on the new psychoactive substance 4-bromomethcathinone (4-BMC). [
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EUDA initial report on the new psychoactive substance N-ethylnorpentedrone (NEP). [
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EUDA initial report on the new psychoactive substance 2-methylmethcathinone (2-MMC). [
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National benchmarking report on implementation of the medication assisted treatment (MAT) standards:
Scotland 2024/2025
(2025) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland

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An impact evaluation of the Scottish take-home naloxone programme
Adams, Tobias Joseph et al (2025) Health Policy and Technology, 14, (6).
doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2025.101072

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Effectiveness of methadone versus buprenorphine in the treatment of opioid use disorder: secondary
analyses of prospective cohort study data
Naji, Leen et al (2025) BMJ Open, 15, (6). doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095645

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Hospital-based methadone and buprenorphine initiation practices by addiction consult services
Cohen, Shawn M et al (2025) JAMA Network Open, 8, (8). 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.26077

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Behavioral therapy as an adjunct to buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder: a secondary
analysis of 4 randomized clinical trials
McHugh, R Kathryn et al (2025) JAMA Network Open, 8, (8). doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.28529

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Safer opioid supply clients' values and preferences: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of
qualitative research
Nafeh, Frishta et al (2025) BMJ Mental Health, 28, (1). doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-301629

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Are reasons for first using cannabis associated with subsequent cannabis consumption (standard THC
units) and psychopathology?
Spinazzola, Edoardo et al (2025)BMJ Mental Health, 28. doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-301810

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The impact of childhood trauma and cannabis use on paranoia: a structural equation model approach
Trotta, Giulia et al (2025) Psychological Medicine, 55. 10.1017/S0033291725101190

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Self-reported cannabis prices and expenditures from legal and illegal sources five years after
legalisation of non-medical cannabis in Canada
Rundle, Samantha Matos et al (2025) Drug and Alcohol Review, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/dar.70009

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Problematic internet use and cannabis consumption: a scoping review
Bélisle, Kellie-Anne et al (2025) Preventive Medicine Reports, 57.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.103210

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Health impact of alcohol regulatory interventions: a systematic review of policies in low- and
middle-income countries
Malawige, Amila Suranga et al (2025) Health Policy and Planning, Early online.
doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaf036

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New modelling of alcohol pricing policies, alcohol consumption and harm in Wales: an adaptation of
the Sheffield Tobacco and Alcohol Policy Model v2.6.0.
Morris, D et al (2025) Cardiff: Welsh Government

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Investigating indicators to assess and support alcohol taxation policy: results from the
International Alcohol Control (IAC) study
Casswell, Sally et al. (2025) International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 14, (1), pp.
1-8. doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.8551

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Taking pleasure seriously: should alcohol research say more about fun?
Nicholls, James and Hunt, Geoffrey (2025) Addiction, 120, (6), pp. 1075-1081.
doi.org/10.1111/add.16747

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Historical trends in young adult solitary alcohol use by age and sex from 1977 to 2022
Creswell, Kasey G et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, 49, (8), pp. 1759-1767.
doi.org/10.1111/acer.70103

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Gut microbiota and alcohol use disorder: a new frontier in treatment and recovery
Skryabin, Valentin (2025) BJPsych Bulletin, Early online. pp. 1-8. 10.1192/bjb.2025.10129

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Alcohol use as a modifiable risk factor in cardiology: a qualitative study of patient perspectives
in Sweden
Welfordsson, Paul et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328990

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Identifying and describing alcohol-related paediatric emergency department attendances amongst under
16 year olds including time trends, incidence rates, and sociodemographic factors associated with
alcohol-related harm
Davies, Nicholas et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329502

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How do the neurocognitive profiles of FASD and complex trauma compare in the pediatric population?:
A scoping review protocol.
Gupta, Rishi et al (2025) PLoS ONE, 20, (8). doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328845

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Behavioral interventions for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: a review of
systematic reviews
Flake, Eric et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early online.
doi.org/10.1111/acer.70129

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Knowledge as prevention: a cost-effective intervention to reduce prenatal alcohol exposure
Keating, Orlagh et al (2025) Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research, Early online.
doi.org/10.1111/acer.70089

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Digital influence: young people’s exposure to the marketing of cigarettes, vapes, unhealthy
food/drink and alcohol.
Saunders, Aleks et al (2025) London: Cancer Research UK

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Recommendations on interventions for tobacco smoking cessation in adults in Canada.
Thombs, Brett D et al (2025) Canadian Medical Association Journal, 197, (28), E846-E861.
doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.241584

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Incentives for smoking cessation
Notley, Caitlin et al (2025) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (1). Art. no.: CD004307. DOI:
10.1002/14651858.CD004307.pub7

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Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review
Golder, Su et al (2025) Tobacco Control, Early online. doi.org/10.1136/tc-2024-059219

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Cognitive drivers of e-cigarette use amongst young Australians: informing prevention strategies in
an e-cigarette epidemic
de Vries, Julia M and Kelly, Adrian B (2025) Substance Use & Misuse, Early online. pp. 1-7.
doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2025.2540937

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Interventions to change vaping harm perceptions and associations between harm perceptions and vaping
and smoking behaviours: a systematic review
East, Katherine et al (2025) Addiction, Early online. doi.org/10.1111/add.70129

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The association between increasing levels of gambling harm and emotional health outcomes for
individuals who are below the threshold of disordered gambling: a secondary analysis of health data
Tipping, S et al (2025) Public Health, 247. doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105899

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Briefing: Gambling and gaming harms on children and young people
(2025) Edinburgh: Public Health Scotland

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Factors associated with digital addiction: umbrella review
Han, Yun et al (2025) JMIR Mental Health, 12. doi: 10.2196/66950

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Ireland's top organised crime investigator links Irish criminals to Iranian-backed drugs gangs
[thejournal.ie] O'Connor, Niall (29 Aug 2025)

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Minister for Education and Youth Helen McEntee announces funding for ten new UBU services to support
young people
[Department of Education and Youth] (28 Aug 2025)

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HSE returns to Electric Picnic to identify current drug trends
[Health Service Executive] (27 Aug 2025)

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Cocaine business: corrupt ship crew members earn €200k to drop drugs off Irish coast, gardaí say.
[thejournal.ie] O'Connor, Niall (22 Aug 2025)

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TD calls on government to regulate 'laughing gas' due to harm posed to reproductive health
[thejournal.ie] Matthews, Jane (20 Aug 2025)

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Public health alert for action: Nitazene-type drugs in Scotland
Public Health Scotland (12 Aug 2025)

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Minister Butler convenes new Cross Government Group to Coordinate Mental Health Policy
Department of Health] (08 Aug 2025)

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Terms of Reference - Steering Group established to provide oversight and guidance to the development
of the new national drugs strategy
[Department of Health] (08 Aug 2025)

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