206 defendants were referred at least once to the Substance Misuse Court in Belfast Magistrates Court. The aim of this programme was to target individuals whose […]
Women’s Aid, in collaboration with RedC Research and Marketing, recently completed a nationally representative study of 500 young women and men in Ireland (aged 18-25), followed […]
Alcohol places a significant health burden on Ireland. Understanding the extent of this burden is an important element in policy decisions around alcohol. Data from the […]
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction coordinates the work of 30 National Focal Points that act as monitoring centres gathering and analysing drug-related […]
This report examines the standard of treatment, safety and wellbeing provided to persons in custody in Garda Síochána stations. The decision to deprive a person of […]
The introduction of minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland in 2018 set a price floor for all alcohol sales made through licensed premises in Scotland, with […]
In January 2022, NISRA released the annual Alcohol-specific deaths statistics for deaths registered in 2020 on alcohol-specific mortality across Northern Ireland. The total number of alcohol-specific […]
This is a report on in-patient and day patient discharges from acute public hospitals participating in the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE) scheme in 2020. Discharge activity […]
This Public Accounts Committee report on Addiction Services in Northern Ireland highlights the increase in drugs and alcohol related deaths in the last ten years. The […]