Ireland: drug-related information and data
Ireland
Our partner in Ireland
42-47 Lower Mount Street, third floor, Knockmaun House
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel. +353 12345168
Head of focal point: Mr Brian Galvin
The Irish national focal point is located in the Health Research Board (HRB). The HRB is a statutory body with a mission to improve health through research and information. The HRB is responsible for promoting, commissioning and conducting medical, epidemiological and health services research in Ireland. Within the HRB a multidisciplinary team of researchers and information specialists work to provide objective, reliable and comparable information on the drug situation, its consequence and responses in Ireland. The HRB disseminates research findings, information and news in the drugs area through its Trends series and through a quarterly research and policy bulletin, Drugnet Ireland. Through its research and dissemination activities, the HRB aims to inform policy and practice in relation to drug misuse.
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Country situation summaries are written with the general reader in mind and provide short, mainly text-based analyses of national drug situations.
Key data sheets provide an at-a-glance statistical view of the drug situation by country and cover areas including prevalence, problem drug use, infectious diseases, deaths, and more.
Country barometers provide a graphical representation of drug use prevalence data for each country, showing its position relative to other countries by population and drug.
What are countries in Europe doing to prevent illicit drug use? 'Prevention profiles' attempts to answer this question using interactive maps and data charts based on expert appraisals.
Legal profiles describe national drug-related legislation in a standardised, comparable format. Topics covered include possession, trafficking, classification, prosecution, prevention, treatment, among others.
This resource provides access to the current national strategies and action plans for each country as well as a brief description of recent and ongoing work in the area.
Each treatment profile provides information on the national context, treatment registries and monitoring systems, treatment demand, availability of treatment services as well as references and resources.
Each overview describes: the national context; references and resources; key responses for preventing and reducing drug-related infectious diseases and; drug-related deaths and drug-related harms in recreational settings.
These data sheets on drug-related public expenditure cover 30 countries and examine how much countries spend on drug-related activities, whether there are specific budgets allocated to drug policy documents, and how drug-related expenditure has evolved over time.
National reports draw an overall picture of the drug phenomenon at national level. The data is an important resource, among others for the compilation of the EMCDDA's Annual report.
National drug related research provides information by country in the following areas: main funding frameworks, research institutions, scientific journals, websites, main studies conducted and articles published.
