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News

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Electric Picnic festival goers warned of high strength drugs. (29 Aug 2019)

[Independent.ie] , Kelly, Aoife 'Bad batch is a red herring' - Irish doctor dispels drug myths and warns festival-goers about high potency MDMA. (29 Aug 2019)

[Irish Examiner] , Leogue, Joe Drug harm-reduction campaign for music festivals. (20 Jun 2019)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Fears at revival in stronger cocaine and ecstasy. (08 Jun 2018)

[thejournal.ie] , Fitzgerald, Cormac Young adults in Ireland are taking more MDMA and cannabis than they used to. (07 Jun 2018)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Drug treatment centres shut due to user incidents. (14 Jun 2017)

[Irish Times] , McMahon, Aine MDMA use among young Irish adults rising – drugs report. (07 Jun 2017)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac EU report Ireland had fourth highest quantity of ecstasy seized. (01 Jun 2016)

[Irish Examiner] , Shanahan, Catherine Third of students use legal drugs to ‘get high’. (28 Aug 2015)

[Medical Independent] , Cahill, Niamh Students using prescription medications to ‘get high’. (27 Aug 2015)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Half of students have used cannabis. (29 Jun 2015)

[thejournal.ie] Of 23,000 who say they took MDMA, 202 ended up in hospital. (18 Jun 2015)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Irish drug users near top for problems caused by ecstasy and alcohol. (15 Jun 2015)

[independent.ie] , Cusack, Jim Home-made drugs are 'driving students to self-harm'. (25 May 2014)

[Irish Examiner] , Lally, Conor Seizure of banned synthetic drugs in post reaches all-time high. (01 Jul 2013)

[Irish Examiner] , Moore, Ollie Irish scientists leading street drug research. (30 Apr 2013)

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Jerome, Lisa and Feduccia, Allison A and Wang, Julie B and Hamilton, Scott and Yazar-Klosinski, Berra and Emerson, Amy and Mithoefer, Michael C and Doblin, Rick . (2020) Long-term follow-up outcomes of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment of PTSD: a longitudinal pooled analysis of six phase 2 trials. Psychopharmacology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-020-05548-2

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Thesis

Maguire, Richard (2001) The development, validation and application of analytical methods for the analysis of drugs of abuse. PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin.

FactSheet

HRB National Drugs Library. (2020) Factsheet – MDMA/ecstasy: the Irish situation. Dublin: HRB National Drugs Library.