How many people use alcohol and other drugs in Ireland?
Drug prevalence is the proportion of a population who have used drugs in a given time period.
This webpage provides links to key surveys and other studies that provide information on prevalence of use in Ireland, and on substance use behaviour and attitudes.
(2024) The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2022.
Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2018Growing up in the West. Planet Youth county reports 2022, published May 2023 - Galway city, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon.
Growing Up in Ireland: Cohort '98 at age 25 main results. (2025)
Growing up in Ireland. Key findings from the self-complete survey with cohort ’08 at 13 (2024)
Growing Up in Ireland. The lives of 20-year-olds making the transition to adulthood (2021) and Child cohort come of age: review of the literature pertaining to the 17/18 year wave (2020)
This page was last updated in May 2025