The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2022 is the seventh time that data of this kind have been collected from young people (school going children aged 9-18 years) across the Republic of Ireland. Substance use questions cover tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use.

(2025) Trends in health behaviours, outcomes and contexts: 1998-2022. The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study.
(2024) The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2022. 

Trends in health behaviours, health outcomes and contextual factors between 1998-2018: findings from the Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study

Growing up in the West. Planet Youth county reports 2025, published June 2025 - Galway city, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon.

Factsheets on alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, opiates, sedatives and tranquilisers, tobacco, new psychoactive substances, gambling, and young people
(2024) Alcohol and drugs data factsheet: HSE health regions.
(2023) Regional alcohol-related harm - County level factsheet 

Alcohol: availability, affordability, related harm, and policy in Ireland. (2024) Health Research Board.
Alcohol and other drug use among children and young people in Ireland: prevalence, risk and protective factors, consequences, responses, and policies. (2022) Health Research Board.
View the most recent dashboard with Irish alcohol-related statistics.

(2025) Prevalence of problematic opioid use in Ireland, 2020–2022. Dublin: Health Research Board.
HSE Performance assurance reports (data on social inclusion, opioid substitution)

European web survey on drugs 2021: Irish results. [Note: this isurvey was conducted to determine patterns of drug use among a convenience sample of people aged 18 years and over who had used drugs in the last year.]

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)

All Growing Up in Ireland study reports

The Health Research Board's National Drug and Alcohol Survey (NDAS) collects information on alcohol and tobacco, and drug use among the general population in Ireland. The NDAS also surveys people’s attitudes and perceptions relating to tobacco, alcohol and other drug use and records the impact of drug use on people’s communities. The 2019/20 NDAS collected information from 5,762 people aged 15 and over across Ireland. This is the fifth such survey undertaken in Ireland, providing an opportunity to observe trends over time.

- The 2019–20 Irish National Drug and Alcohol Survey: main findings report
- Regional data from the NDAS is available in our CHO factsheets
- Gambling in the Republic of Ireland. Results from the 2019–20 NDAS

You can use these tables to create cross tabulations and answer your own specific research question. View National Drugs and Alcohol Survey results

National surveys have taken place since 2002, Click this link for prevous national survey reports,