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Butler, Shane (2016) Coolmine Therapeutic Community, Dublin: a forty-year history of Ireland's first voluntary drug treatment service. Addiction, 111, (2), pp. 197-203.

Butler, Shane and Hope, Ann (2015) Ireland’s financial crisis and its influence on alcohol and drug issues. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 32, (6), pp. 623-628.

Butler, Shane (2015) Ireland’s Public Health (Alcohol) Bill: policy window or political sop? Contemporary Drug Problems, 42, (2), pp. 106-117.

Butler, Shane (2013) The symbolic politics of the Dublin drug court: the complexities of policy transfer. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 20, (1), pp. 5-14. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2012.740524.

Butler, Shane (2012) Policy proposals for reducing alcohol-related harm: comparing and contrasting recent British and Irish policy documents. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 19, (5), pp. 365-367. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2012.698427.

Butler, Shane (2011) Addiction counsellors in the Republic of Ireland: exploring the emergence of a new profession. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 18, (4), pp. 295-302. 10.3109/09687637.2010.519360.

Butler, Shane (2011) Editorial: addiction studies at Trinity College Dublin. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 18, (4), pp. 241-242. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2011.566232.

Butler, Shane and Jordan, Tony (2011) The globalization of addiction: a study in the poverty of spirit. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 18, (4), pp. 270-275. 10.3109/09687637.2010.485591.

Butler, Shane (2009) Obstacles to the implementation of an integrated national alcohol policy in Ireland: nannies, neo-liberals and joined-up government. Journal of Social Policy, 38, (2), pp. 343-359. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279408002870.

Butler, Shane and Jordan, Tony (2007) Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland: AA's first European experience. Addiction, 102, (6), pp. 879-886. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01809.x.

Butler, Shane (2007) Rabbitte revisited: the first report of the ministerial task force on measures to reduce the demand for drugs - ten years on. Administration, 55, (3), pp. 124-144.

Butler, Shane (2006) Tipping the balance? An Irish perspective on Anderson and Baumberg. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 13, (6), 493- 497. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687630600895903.

Butler, Shane (2006) The national alcohol policy and the rhetoric of health promotion. Irish Social Worker, 19, (1), pp. 4-7.

Butler, Shane and Mayock, Paula (2005) 'An Irish solution to an Irish problem': harm reduction and ambiguity in the drug policy of the Republic of Ireland. International Journal of Drug Policy, 16, (6), pp. 415-422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2005.07.002.

Butler, Shane (2003) Paying the price for extended opening hours: a comment from Ireland. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 10, (4), pp. 293-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687630310001637299.

Butler, Shane (2002) The making of the methadone protocol: the Irish system? Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 9, (4), pp. 311-324.

Butler, Shane (2002) Addiction problems, addiction services, and social work in the Republic of Ireland. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2, (3/4), 31 - 48.

Butler, Shane (1997) Review essay. The war on drugs: reports from the Irish front. Economic and Social Review, 28, (2), pp. 157-175.

Butler, Shane (1996) Substance misuse and the social work ethos. Journal of Substance Misuse, 1, (3), pp. 149-154.

Butler, Shane (1994) Alcohol and drug education in Ireland: aims, methods and difficulties. Oideas : Journal of the Department of Education, 42, pp. 125-140.

Butler, Shane (1993) Letter to the editor. Irish Journal of Medical Science, 162, (10), pp. 444-445.

Butler, Shane (1991) Drug problems and drug policies in Ireland: a quarter of a century reviewed. Administration, 39, (3), pp. 210-233.

Report

Barnardos. Butler, Shane (2008) Families under the influence. Dublin: The National Children’s Resource Centre, Barnardos.

Book Section

Higgins, Agnes and McDaid, Shane, eds. Butler, Shane (2014) 'A state of semi-lunacy'? The marginal status of drinking problems within the Irish mental health system. In: Mental Health in Ireland: Policy, Practice and Law. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. pp. 150-168.

Butler, Shane and Ryder, Niamh (2005) Reducing alcohol - related harm in Irish colleges: a qualitative evaluation of the College Alcohol Policy Initiative. In: The health of Irish students: College Lifestyle and Attitudinal National (CLAN) Survey; a qualitative evaluation of the College Alcohol Policy Initiative. Dublin: Health Promotion Unit, Department of Health and Children. pp. 55-83.

Butler, Shane and Woods, Marguerite (1992) Drugs, HIV and Ireland: responses to women in Dublin. In: AIDS: women, drugs and social care. London: Falmer. pp. 51-69.

Conference or Workshop Item

Butler, Shane (2009) Needles in haystack: presentation to Irish Needle Exchange Forum. In: Irish Needle Exchange Conference, 5 November 2009, Killarney, County Kerry. (Submitted)

Butler, Shane (2002) How local is local? Assessing the prospects for local alcohol policy in Ireland. In: Debating Public Policies on Drugs and Alcohol, 26 September 2002, Addiction Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin.

Butler, Shane (1999) A tale of two sectors: a critical analysis of the proposal to establish drug courts in the Republic of Ireland. In: Illicit drugs: patterns of use - pattern of response: 10th annual ESSD Conference on Drug Use and Drug Policy in Europe, 20-22 September 1999, Vienna, Austria. (Unpublished)