Some key documents

Factsheet: Young people, drugs and alcohol: the Irish situation. HRB National Drugs Library

(2025) ESPAD Ireland 2024: results from the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs

(2025) Trends in health behaviours, outcomes and contexts: 1998-2022. The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study Department of Health and University of Galway.

(2025) Webinar recording: Growing up in Ireland: substance use and childhood adversity. Health Research Board

(2025) Evaluation of Parents Under Pressure programme in the community: a Coolmine-led initiative. Dublin: Coolmine.

(2025) The association of parental or caregiver alcohol use with child maltreatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Addiction

(2024) Characteristics of affected family members seeking treatment in their own right: a secondary analysis of existing Irish health data for 2010–2020. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy

(2024) State of the Nation's children 2023. Dublin: Department of Children

(2023) Children and gambling – evidence to inform regulation and responses in Ireland. Based on a secondary analysis of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). Institute of Public Health.

(2022) Alcohol and other drug use among children and young people in Ireland: prevalence, risk and protective factors, consequences, responses, and policies. Health Research Board and summary

See also, our educators page and prevention page  

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