Some key documents

Ireland. Annual national report - prevention chapter

(2025) Review of Prevention Systems in Ireland (RePS). Drugnet Ireland

(2024) Drug prevention training in Ireland. Drugnet Ireland

(2023) Denormalising alcohol industry activities in schools. The Lancet

(2022) Drug misuse prevention review. UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.  

(2019) European prevention curriculum: a handbook for decision-makers, opinion-makers and policy-makers in science-based prevention of substance use. EU Drugs Agency 

(2019) Know the Score: substance use resource materials for senior cycle SPHE. HSE 

(2019) European Drug Prevention Quality Standards (EDPQS) toolkits to support quality in prevention. European Drug Prevention Quality Standards [and (2022) Map of the current application of quality standards in the area of prevention in EU countries] 

See also, our prevention webpage and our educator page
What Works Ireland Evidence Hub - provides information about prevention and early intervention programmes that have been evaluated and shown to improve outcomes for children and young people.

EUDA Xchange prevention registry - an online registry of evidence-based prevention programmes

You can ‘search’ our full collection, or browse publications related to prevention below.

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