Dr. Eamon Keenan:

We are involved in a number of ongoing EU projects. The Health Research Board, HRB, is a key player in the web survey of drug use across Europe. Ireland is a key member of the European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project, ESCAPE, which is looking at syringe analysis across eight different European states. We are involved in the waste water analysis, the SCORE project, which looks at predictors and prevalence of drug use across 20 European countries. We very clearly see the benefit of linking with European colleagues in relation to ongoing research. In fact in the last European drug survey, Ireland had the second highest number of respondents for people who use drugs in the night-time economy of any European country behind Hungary. A key element of our work is that cross-European research.