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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. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13157.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

Corrigan, Eileen M and Butler, Shane (1991) Irish alcoholic women in treatment: early findings. International Journal of the Addictions, 26, (3), pp. 281-292.

Fagan, Dermot and Butler, Shane (2011) ‘What are we about?’ An organizational study of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in present-day Ireland. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 18, (4), pp. 261-269. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2011.556684.

Hope, Ann and Butler, Shane (2010) Changes in consumption and harms, yet little policy progress. Trends in alcohol consumption, harms and policy: Ireland 1990 – 2010. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 5, pp. 479-496.

Mayock, Paula and Butler, Shane (2022) “I’m always hiding and ducking and diving”: the stigma of growing older on methadone. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 29, (2), pp. 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1886253.

Mayock, Paula and Butler, Shane (2021) Pathways to ‘recovery’ and social reintegration: The experiences of long-term clients of methadone maintenance treatment in an Irish drug treatment setting. International Journal of Drug Policy, 90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103092.

O'Leary, Megan and Butler, Shane (2015) Caring for grandchildren in kinship care: what difficulties face Irish grandparents with drug-dependent children? Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 15, (4), pp. 352-372. DOI: 10.1080/1533256X.2015.1090999.

Prinzleve, Michael and Haasen, Christian and Zurhold, Heike and Matali, Josep Lluis and Bruguera, Eugeni and Gerevich, Jozsef and Bacskai, Erika and Ryder, Niamh and Butler, Shane and Manning, Victoria and Gossop, Michael and Pezous, Ann-Marie and Verster, Annette and Camposeragna, Antonella and Andersson, Pia and Olsson, B and Primorac, Andjela and Fischer, Gabriele and Guttinger, Franziska and Rehm, Jürgen and Krausz, Michael (2004) Cocaine use in Europe - a multi-centre study: patterns of use in different groups. European Addiction Research, 10, (4), pp. 147-155. https://doi.org/10.1159/000079835.

Ryall, Graham and Butler, Shane (2011) The great Irish head shop controversy. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 18, (4), pp. 303-311. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2011.560911.

Woods, Marguerite and Butler, Shane (2011) ‘A victim of its own success’? The Diploma in Addiction Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Drugs: Education Prevention and Policy, 18, (4), pp. 243-250. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2011.560912.

Report

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

Mayock, Paula and Butler, Shane and Hoey, Daniel (2018) “Just maintaining the status quo”? The experience of long-term participants in methadone maintenance treatment. Dublin: Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Drug and Alcohol Task Force.

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

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)