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Brennan, Rebekah and Overbye, Marie and Van Hout, Marie Claire and McVeigh, James (2021) “A slippery slope”: a scoping review of the self-injection of unlicensed oils and fillers as body enhancement. Performance Enhancement & Health, 100185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peh.2020.100185.

Brennan, Rebekah and Van Hout, Marie Claire (2012) Miaow miaow: a review of the new psychoactive drug mephedrone. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 12, (4), pp. 241-253. https://doi.org/10.1108/17459261211286654.

Brennan, Rebekah and Van Hout, Marie Claire (2014) Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB): a scoping review of pharmacology, toxicology, motives for use, and user groups. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 46, (3), pp. 243-251. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2014.921746.

Brennan, Rebekah and Van Hout, Marie Claire (2020) "Bursting the Lyrica bubble”: experiences of pregabalin use in individuals accessing opioid agonist treatment in Dublin, Ireland. Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems, 22, (6), pp. 5-13.

Brennan, Rebekah and Van Hout, Marie Claire and Wells, John (2013) Heuristics of human enhancement risk: a little chemical help? International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 51, (4), pp. 212-227.

Brennan, Rebekah and Wazaify, Mayyada and Shawabkeh, Haneen and Boardley, Ian and McVeigh, Jim and Van Hout, Marie Claire (2021) A scoping review of non-medical and extra-medical use of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs). Drug Safety, 44, pp. 917-928. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-021-01085-9.

Brennan, Rebekah and Wells, John and Van Hout, Marie Claire (2018) "Blood letting"-Self-phlebotomy in injecting anabolic-androgenic steroids within performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) culture. International Journal of Drug Policy, 55, pp. 47-50.

Brennan, Rebekah and Wells, John S G and Van Hout, Marie Claire (2017) The injecting use of image and performance-enhancing drugs (IPED) in the general population: a systematic review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 25, (5), pp. 1459-1531.

Brennan, Rebekah and Wright, Mark (2024) “Boxing Clever Cork saved my life”: a snapshot of an early addiction recovery fitness and education program. Journal of Substance Use, Early online, https://doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2024.2407621.

Murray, Thomas and Brennan, Rebekah (2025) ‘The people, the spaces, the talking!’ Igniting community-based higher education. Studies in the Education of Adults, 57, (1), pp. 37-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2023.2284022.

Van Hout, Marie Claire and Brennan, Rebekah (2011) Plant food for thought: a qualitative study of mephedrone use in Ireland. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 18, (5), pp. 371-381. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2010.537713.

Van Hout, Marie Claire and Brennan, Rebekah (2012) Curiosity killed M-Cat: A post legislative study on mephedrone use in Ireland. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 19, (2), pp. 156-162. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2011.617796.

Van Hout, Marie Claire and Brennan, Rebekah (2011) 'Heads held high': an exploratory study of legal highs in pre-legislation Ireland. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 10, (3), pp. 256-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2011.600210.

Van Hout, Marie Claire and Brennan, Rebekah (2014) An in-depth case examination of an exotic dancer’s experience of melanotan. International Journal of Drug Policy, 25, (3), pp. 444-450. doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.10.008.

Report

Brennan, Rebekah (2022) “Singing from the same hymn sheet”: an evidence base for the development of an interagency Drug Related Intimidation (DRI) specific training programme in the SICDATF area. Dublin: South Inner City Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force.

Teaching Resource

Brennan, Rebekah (2014) ‘IDUHED’: An ethno pharmacological study of the injecting use of human enhancement drugs. Dublin: Irish Research Bouncil.