This week, the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) welcomes its new Executive Director Dr Lorraine Nolan (Ireland), as she begins a five-year term leading the agency.
Dr Nolan was elected to the position by the EUDA Management Board in June 2025, following a competitive public recruitment process launched in September 2024.
Dr Nolan brings over 25 years of senior leadership experience across science, public service and regulatory affairs, including 10 years as Chief Executive of Ireland’s Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA). Her career spans national, European and international roles…
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Every year, thousands of people across Europe require hospital treatment for drug-related poisoning and other acute harms. In a new analysis published today, European Drug Emergencies Network (Euro-DEN Plus): data and analysis, the EUDA provides the latest findings on people who present with acute drug-toxicity to hospital emergency services.
Drawing on data from 29 sentinel hospitals in 19 countries (18 EU Member States plus Norway), the results show that cocaine is the most commonly reported drug in these cases, that men account for three-quarters of the presentations, and that…
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The EUDA today launches a new technical report, Collection of drug-related hospital emergency data in Western Balkans and Southern Neighbourhood countries using Euro-DEN Plus methodology, presenting the latest findings from a multi-country data-collection exercise carried out between July and December 2024. The study, funded by the European Union under EUDA-implemented technical cooperation projects EU4MD II (1) and IPA8 (2), builds on three previous cycles of data gathering and further consolidates the use of the Euro-DEN Plus (3) methodology in partner regions.
Twelve sentinel hospital…
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