Drugs--a report on a study in Dublin. Post-primary schoolchildren, 1970.

During the last few years there has been increasing evidence from the Gardai and other sources of an increasing use among young people of drugs, particularly marijuana but also amphetamines, LSD and, to a much smaller extent, hard drugs such as heroin. Because of this increasing problem the Department of Health appointed a Working Party on Drug Abuse under the chairmanship of Dr Karl Mullen and this Committee asked the Medico-Social Research Board for assistance in investigating the problem. The Board has already carried out and reported upon the drug scene among young people in their late teens (Masterson, 1970).