ESPAD Ireland 2019

​​European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) 2019​
​The ESPAD Ireland Report 2019, based on a survey of 1967 students born in 2003, who were 15-16 years old when the survey was carried out in a sample of Irish schools in 2019, was launched in November 2020 by TFRI and Department of Health.  

It features information on students’ experience of, and perceptions about, a variety of substances, including: tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs, inhalants, pharmaceuticals and new psychoactive substances (NPS). Social media use, gaming and gambling are also covered.
  
This is the seventh data-collection wave conducted by the ESPAD project since 1995, with data collected every 4 years in more than 35 countries.
Click here for the full report: 
S Sunday, S Keogan, J Hanafin, L Clancy (2020). ESPAD 2019 Ireland: Results from the European Schools Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs in Ireland. Dublin: TFRI. ISBN: 978-0-9557528-4-1
Click here for the summary report:
S Sunday, S Keogan, J Hanafin, L Clancy (2020). ESPAD 2019 Ireland: Summary Results from the European Schools Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs in Ireland. Dublin: TFRI. ISBN: 978-0-9557528-5-8

The European ESPAD report can be found here.



ESPAD Ireland 2015

​​European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) 2015

ESPAD is a collaborative effort of independent research teams in more than forty European countries and is the largest cross-national research project on adolescent substance use in the world. The overall project aim is to longitudinally collect comparable data on substance use among 15–16 year old students across Europe. The TFRI act as partners in the 2019 and 2015 ESPAD data administration.

The Irish ESPAD  Report 2015 can be found here.

The  International ESPAD report 2015  (using data from across Europe) can be found here.

More information on the European ESPAD project can be found here.
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Exerpt from ESPAD Ireland 2015

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