National Drugs Strategy

The HRB manages the monitoring and research, aspects of Reducing harms, supporting recovery, the national drugs strategy and undertakes commissioning, reporting, and communication tasks requested by the Department of Health to support the implementation of the strategy.
The HRB reports on population drug prevalence, early warning and other monitoring work required by the European Commission.

For more information please contact:
Brian Galvin bgalvin@hrb.ie or Deirdre Mongan dmongan@hrb.ie

Drugnet Ireland

Drugnet Ireland is the Health Research Board’s quarterly drug and alcohol research and policy bulletin. It provides summaries and analysis of recent publications and policy developments and well as overviews of particular issues relating to the drug and alcohol situation Ireland. Experts from the EUDA national focal point and from the HRB Evidence Centre contribute content to the newsletter.

Click here  if you would like to subscribe to our quarterly issue of Drugnet.

Find the current issue and all previous Drugnet issues here.

National Drugs Forum

The HRB in collaboration with the Department of Health have been hosting the annual National Drugs Forum since 2018. Held in November each year, the forum is an opportunity for stakeholders to learn about and discuss new developments and thinking in drug and alcohol research and policy.

Click here to find all pdf presentations from the National Drugs Forum 2023