This year’s Health Research in Action highlights some of the many notable impacts and outcomes of the Health Research Board’s work. It includes a snapshot in numbers of our activity during 2022, followed by 29 success stories from our wide-ranging health and social care research portfolio.

Includes snapshots:

P.30 How can service users share in decision-making about drug treatment, recovery and harm reduction? 
[See also, An integrative evidence review on service user participation in the design and delivery of drug treatment, recovery and harm reduction services.]

P.31 HRB informs the Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use 
[See also, Evidence to inform deliberative democracy: HRB at the Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use.]

P.32 Drug use in Ireland – who is taking what, and why?  
[See also, European web survey on drugs 2021: Irish results.]

P.33 Problem substance use and behavioural addictions – new insights into affected family members 
[See also, Characteristics of affected family members seeking treatment in their own right: a secondary analysis of existing Irish health data for 2010–2020.]