Some key documents

(2025) Associations and mediating factors between adverse childhood experiences and substance use behaviours in early adulthood: a population-based longitudinal study. Addictive Behaviors

(2024) The experience of drug-related client loss for healthcare professionals who support people in addiction. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment

(2023) Pathways to social work. Surveying the motivations & challenges in becoming a social worker. Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

(2023) 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

(2023) FASDcare: understanding the experiences and needs of family caregivers of people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in Ireland. Alcohol Forum Ireland

(2022) Social work and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Iriss Insights

(2022) Parents’ views on improving relationships with their social workers. Journal of Social Work

(2020) The engagement of young people in drug interventions in coercive contexts: findings from a cross-national European study. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy

See the Drug and Alcohol Findings website for the drug treatment matrix and alcohol treatment matrix 

Also, see our social issues page and family & young people page

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