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Webinar for International Overdose Awareness Day 2022

The HSE National Social Inclusion Office, in collaboration with the HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention, the Department of Health and Addiction & Advocacy Services, host a webinar on Wednesday 31 August...

25 years of early warning and response to new psychoactive substances in Europe

This year, the EU Early Warning System (EWS) on new psychoactive substances (NPS) celebrates its 25th anniversary. Operated by the EMCDDA, in close cooperation with Europol and partners (1), it was the...

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Penalties for drug law offences in Europe ‘at a glance’ — new countries added to online tool

How do countries’ laws deal with offences relating to drug use, possession for personal use or supply? Find out more in the EMCDDA’s 'Penalties at a glance' tool, which allows for comparisons...

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Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Ireland (2021) Public expenditure assessment of Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery strategy

This document presents the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Ireland's 2021 public expenditure assessment of Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery strategy, Ireland's National Drugs Strategy, 2017-25.

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Department of Health, Ireland (2021) Mid term Review of Ireland's National Drug Strategy

This report presents the Department of Health's 2021 Mid term Review of Ireland's National Drug Strategy.

Graphic shows a series of pie charts for cannabis, cocaine, MDMA and amphetamines, showing drug prevalance rates in the EU. Cannabis is the most used drug with 7.7% of adults having used it in the last year. Last year use for cocaine is 1.2%, MDMA is 0.9%

At a glance — estimates of drug use in the European Union (updated June 2022)

Graphic shows estimates of prevalence of use for different drugs in the European Union (EU-27). This graphic is take from the European Drug Report 2021. Full source data and methods and...

EMCDDA launches 2021 European Web Survey on Drugs to assess patterns of drug use in over 30 countries

Do you use drugs? How many? How often? These are among the questions posed in the latest European Web Survey on Drugs, launched today by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA). Targeted at...

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Reitox national focal points’ activities during the COVID-19 pandemic

This report highlights the responses taken by the EMCDDA's Reitox network of national focal points to the COVID-19 crisis and describes the challenges met by the organisations and the strategies produced to...

9th Extended Reitox network meeting

Every year the EMCDDA organises the extended meeting of the Reitox network bringing together the 29 Heads of the National Focal Points and representatives from the agency’s key partner countries. Following the...

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European Drug Report 2020: Key Issues

This report, available in 24 languages, presents a summary of some the main findings of the 'European Drug Report 2020: Trends and Developments the EMCDDA’s latest analysis of the drug situation in...

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