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Belackova, Vendula and Salmon, Allison M (2017) Overview of international literature - supervised injecting facilities & drug consumption rooms - Issue 1. Sydney: Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre.

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2017) Perspectives on drugs: Drug consumption rooms: an overview of provision and evidence. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, International Network of People who Use Drugs, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Population Fund, World Health Organization, United States Agency for International Development. (2017) Implementing comprehensive HIV and HCV programmes with people who inject drugs: practical guidance for collaborative interventions. Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2016) Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe: update from the EMCDDA expert network. Lisbon: Publications Office of the European Union.

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2016) Perspectives on drugs: Drug consumption rooms: an overview of provision and evidence. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

World Health Organization. (2015) HIV and young people who inject drugs. Technical brief. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Ana Liffey Drug Project. (2015) Ana Liffey drug project position paper on the provision of a medically supervised injecting centre in Dublin. Dublin: Ana Liffey Drug Project.

Public Health England. (2015) Raising awareness of needlestick injuries in healthcare settings. London: Public Health England.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (2014) Needle and syringe programmes. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Positive Now and the All-Ireland Network of People Living with HIV. O'Donnell, Aislinn (2014) HIV: Our responsibilities. Dublin: Positive Now and the All-Ireland Network of People Living with HIV.

Health and Safety Authority. (2014) Guide to the European Union (Prevention of Sharps Injuries in the Healthcare Sector) Regulations 2014. Dublin: Health and Safety Authority.

Australian National Council on Drugs. (2013) ANCD position paper: Needle and syringe programs. Australian National Council on Drugs.

Jennings, Ciaran J (2013) Re-establishing contact: a profile of clients attending the health promotion unit - needle exchange at Merchants Quay Ireland. Dublin: Merchants Quay Ireland.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, WHO Regional Office for Europe. (2013) HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2012. Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Scientific Advisory Committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre. (2012) Guidelines for the emergency management of injuries (including needlestick and sharps injuries, sexual exposure and human bites) where there is a risk of transmission of bloodborne viruses and other infectious diseases. Dublin: Health Protection Surveillance Centre and Health Service Executive.

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. (2012) HIV/AIDS country profile 2011: Ireland. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.

Irish Needle Exchange Forum. (2011) Overdose prevention and response. Dublin: Irish Needle Exchange Forum.

Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. Public Health Information and Research Branch. (2010) Statistics from the Northern Ireland Needle and Syringe Exchange Scheme: 1 April 2009–31 March 2010. Belfast: Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety.

MSIC Evaluation Committee. (2003) Final report on the evaluation of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. Sydney: MSIC Evaluation Committee.

Cox, Gemma and Lawless, Marie (2000) Making contact: an evaluation of a syringe exchange. Dublin: Merchants Quay Project.

Trinity College Dublin. Department of Community Health and General Practice. Long, Jean and Allwright, Shane and Barry, Joseph and Reaper-Reynolds, Sheilagh and Thornton, Lelia and Bradley, Fiona (2000) Hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV in Irish prisoners, part II: prevalence and risk in committal prisoners 1999. Dublin: Stationery Office.

Mullen, Louise and Barry, Joseph (1999) Needle exchange in the Eastern Health Board region: an analysis of first time attendees, 1990-1997. Dublin: Eastern Health Board.

Webpage

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2023) Viral hepatitis elimination barometer among people who inject drugs — European overview. URL: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/data-fac...

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2023) Most recent data from the European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise (ESCAPE): data explorer, analysis and key findings. URL: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/data-fac...

Health Service Executive. (2023) Hepatitis C. URL: https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/hepatitis-c/

FactSheet

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2023) HIV among people who inject drugs: data factsheet. Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

UNAIDS. (2021) HIV and people who use drugs. Geneva: UNAIDS.

Drugs.ie. (2015) Safer disposal information. Dublin: drugs.ie.

Dail Debates

[Oireachtas] Dail Eireann debate. Written answer 38 - Drug treatment programmes policy [injecting rooms] [27046/15]. (09 Jul 2015)

[Oireachtas] Dail Eireann debate. Written answer 161 - Drug treatment programmes policy [injecting centres] [27801/15]. (08 Jul 2015)

[Oireachtas] Dail Eireann debate. Written answer 630 - National drugs strategy [Safe injecting] [49759/12]. (13 Nov 2012)

[Oireachtas] Dail Eireann debate. Written answer 270 - Drugs in prisons [14684/05]. (05 May 2005)

Conference or Workshop Item

Smyth, Bobby P (2011) Clinical research in the addiction service: the lows and the highs. In: Irish health research:collaboration and partnership for progress a one day seminar, 11 February, Dr. Steevens' Hospital.

Thesis

Robinson, Janet (2007) The adoption of a harm reduction philosophy: the development and operation of a needle exchange programme in one former health board area. Masters thesis, Trinity College Dublin.

Video

McVeigh, Jim (2014) Steroid users accessing needle exchange services. Anabolic steroids & associated drugs: evidence from the United Kingdom. drugs.ie.

Teaching Resource

EuroNPUD. Southwell, Mat (2023) EuroNPUD peer-led harm reduction series. Safer-injecting, one day training course. EuroNPUD.

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

Fry, C and Rumbold, G and Lintzeris, N (1998) Blood borne virus transmission risk. Outcomes measurement tool: drug use behaviour – safer use.

News

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. [EMCDDA] World AIDS Day: concerns over stimulant injecting and late HIV diagnoses in Europe. (30 Nov 2023)

[Health Service Executive] New HSE at home Hepatitis C test could save your life. (05 Apr 2023)

[Irish Examiner] , English, Eoin Cork GP and councillor backs development of supervised injection facility in city. (20 Oct 2022)

[thejournal.ie] , McCarron, Jamie Health products regulator warns against unauthorised 'self-tanning' substance. (27 Jun 2022)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Supervised drug-use centres key to reducing harm says EU expert. (02 Jun 2022)

[thejournal.ie] , Duffin, Tony and McCann, Eugene Opinion: Supervised drug injecting in Ireland – 10 years of advocacy, legislation and delays. (20 Jan 2022)

Cork Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force. [Cork Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force] CLDATF position paper on medically supervised injecting facilities – October 2021. (Oct 2021)

[Irish Times] , Holland, Kitty Drug use in Dublin: ‘People are passing all the time. It’s disgusting, for me, for them’. (26 Jul 2021)

[Irish Examiner] , English, Eoin HSE defends installation of biohazard bins in Cork. (21 Jan 2019)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Needle exchange gets thumbs up from users. (05 Mar 2017)

[TalkingDrugs] , Gomes, André Dublin implements public sharps bins to tackle drug-related litter. (02 Mar 2016)

[thejournal.ie] Here’s what the drugs minister means by ‘Supervised Injection Centres’. (03 Nov 2015)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Doherty, Ian 'Safe rooms' for drug addicts a shot in the arm for city centre. (29 Jul 2015)

[Belfastlive] , Grant, Rob One in six Northern Irish drug users "share needles", survey claims. (22 Jul 2015)

[drugs.ie] Safe disposal of drug related litter in County Westmeath. (20 Jul 2015)

[thejournal.ie] , Ryan, Nicky Poll: Should injection centres for drug addicts be opened in Ireland? (11 Jul 2015)

[Irish Examiner] , O'Keeffe, Cormac Legal move to provide heroin use sites. (17 Dec 2014)

[Irish Independent] , Dowling, Enda Elton's cash finally funding 130 needle exchange programmes. (13 Aug 2013)

[Ana Liffey Drug Project] Pharmacy Needle Exchange Programme (Ireland) September 2011. (21 Sep 2011)