Cover story

• Publication of EU Drugs Strategy 2021–2025 p.01 

Policy and legislation

• EU Drugs Strategy 2021–2025: policy areas, themes, and strategic priorities p.07
• Evaluation of EU Drugs Strategy 2013–2020 v12
• Most recent regulations of Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 implemented p.15
• Coordination, framing, and innovation: the political sophistication of public health advocates in Ireland p.17 

Recent research

• Evidence review of drug treatment services for people who are homeless and use drugs p.21
• Debts, threats, distress, and hope: drug-related intimidation in Dublin’s north east inner city p.26
• Lifting the lid on Bluetown and Redtown p.30
• Correlates of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder in Ireland p.36
• Factors associated with early and later dropout from methadone maintenance treatment in specialist addiction clinics p.37
• Pathways to ‘recovery’ and social reintegration: experiences of Irish long-term clients of methadone maintenance treatment p.39 

Prevalence and current situation

• Self-harm in Irish prisons p.41
• Irish drug quantification trends for cocaine, diamorphine, and amphetamine 2016–2019 43
• Cannabis use among Irish children: results from the 2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey p.47 

Responses

• Dublin NEIC progress report p.49
• Brass Munkie winter 2020 issue published p.50 

Updates

• Recent publications p.52