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Professor Bobby Smyth

Clinical Professor (Public Health & Primary Care)

 smythbo@tcd.ie

 


Research Tags

  Addiction   Addiction and substance abuse   Addictions   ADOLESCENT   ADOLESCENT DRUG-USE   Adolescent Psychology   AETIOLOGY   Childhood and mental health   Development, prevention and treatment of mental disease or disorder   Educational disadvantage in children   Emotional, behavioural and cognitive disorders   Health attitudes and behaviour   Health outcomes   HEPATITIS C   INJECTION-DRUG USERS   Mental health and intellectual disability   Neurophysiology   Psychiatry   Psychometrics   Public health

Representations

Details Date
Chairperson of the General Population Survey (GPS) Research Advisory Group for the HRB. The GPS measures the prevalence of use of alcohol and other drugs using a general population sample from across Ireland. 2018-2021
Member of the Advisory Board of International Academy on the Science and Impact of Cannabis 2021-
Evaluation of research grants for HRB funding 2013
Expert Advisory Group on alcohol, Public Health England 2014 - 2015
Addiction Faculty of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2014 to 2021
Alcohol Policy Group of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) 2011 to 2018
National Advisory Committee on Drugs & Alcohol Aug 2013 to Oct 2015
Member of the Early Warning & Emerging trends Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs 2005 to 2011
Addiction Subgroup of the Expert Group on Mental Health (which drafted " A Vision for Change", Ireland's mental health strategy) Jan to Dec 2005
Adolescent Subgroup - HSE National Consent Advisory Group Dec 2011 to April 2013
National Addiction Training Program 2012 to 2015
Chairperson of the Treatment & Prevention Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs & Alcohol Aug 2013 to Oct 2015
Journal review for Addiction, Alcohol and Alcoholism, PLoS One, BMJ Open Ophthalmology, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Substance Abuse, BMC Public Health, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, Public Health Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Drug Issues, Journal of Addictive Diseases, Pediatric Drugs, Expert Review of Anti Infective Therapy, Mental Health and Substance Use, Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2004 to date
Adviser to Aiseiri Aislinn in Kilkenny, the sole residential adolescent addiction treatment service in Ireland Sept 2011 to date
Board Member of Alcohol Action Ireland Nov 2011 to date
Member of the Alcohol Health Alliance. The AHA is a multi-agency group who advocate for a public health led response to alcohol policy. 2016 to 2021
Co-Chair (since 2021) of Youth & Student Mental Health Special Interest Group on (College of Psychiatrists of Ireland) 2013 to 2021
Member of Planet Youth Oversight Group for North Dublin 2020-
Member of the Editorial Board of the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 2018 to date
Expert subgroup on cannabis (College of Psychiatrists of Ireland) 2020 - 2021
Completed an external expert review of the Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Services (ADAWS) which was based at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. October 2016

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2010
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1997
Society for the Study of Addiction 1997
Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland 2004
Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1998
McCarron P., Smyth B., Carroll G., Glynn M., Barry J., Whiston L., Keenan E., Darker C., Truszkowska E., Patterns of new psychoactive substance use among opioid-dependent patients attending for opioid substitution treatment, HEROIN ADDICTION AND RELATED CLINICAL PROBLEMS, 24, (1), 2022, p21 - 29, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Smyth, Bobby P, Christie, Grant IG, Opposition to cannabis legalization on public health grounds, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 9, 2021, p100142 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Seán R. Millar, Deirdre Mongan, Bobby P. Smyth, Ivan J. Perry, Brian Galvin , Relationships between age at first substance use and persistence of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder, BMC Public Health, 2021, Notes: [in press, accepted May 2021], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Millar SR, Mongan D, O'Dwyer C, Long J, Smyth BP, Perry IJ, Galvin B., Correlates of patterns of cannabis use, abuse and dependence: evidence from two national surveys in Ireland., European journal of public health, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Smyth BP., Head shops and new psychoactive substances: a public health perspective., Irish journal of psychological medicine, 2021, p1-8 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Smyth, Bobby P., Cannon, Mary, Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Cannabis Use: Explanation of Paradoxical Findings, Journal of Adolescent Health, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Smyth Bobby P, Daly Antoinette, Elmusharaf Khalifa, McDonald Conor, Clarke Mary, Craig Sarah, Cullen Walter, Legislation targeting head shops selling new psychoactive substances and changes in drug-related psychiatric admissions: A national database study , Early intervention in psychiatry , 14, (1), 2020, p53 - 60, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Smyth, Bobby P, O"Farrell, Anne, Cullen, Walter, Drug-related medical hospital admissions during and after a period of head shop expansion, European Journal of Public Health, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Comiskey, C, James, P, Smyth, B, Journeying with fear: Young people's experiences of cannabis use, crime and violence before treatment entry, Journal of Child and Adolesc ent Psychiatric Nursing., 2020, p1 - 6, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Smyth BP, McCarney G., Treatment of Adolescent Heroin Dependence: The End of an Era., Irish medical journal, 113, (1), 2020, p2 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

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Smyth BP, Cannon M., Cannabis and public health-a need to reclaim the narrative., Ir J Med Sci, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
James P, Kearns T, Campbell A & Smyth BP, Adolescents & Substance Use: The Handbook for professionals working with Young People, Oxford, Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2013, Book, PUBLISHED
Barry S, Cannon M, Lawlor L, Smyth BP, What everyone should know about cannabis, Dublin, JOINT COMMITTEE ON ARTS, SPORT, TOURISM, COMMUNITY, RURAL & GAELTACHTAFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION, June, 2006, Notes: [Outlines evidence of the known and probable harms related to cannabis use.], Report, PUBLISHED
Berney T, Black S, Checinski K, Crome I, Feinmann C, Gowers S, Hobbs M, Marsden A, Mahmood T, Smith E, Smyth R, Walden C, The mental health of students in Higher Education, London, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2003, Notes: [Outlined prevalence of mental health problems among third level students, identified risk factors and advised on models of best practice for both prevention and treatment.], Report, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Margaret Davenport Prize (Royal College of Psychiatrists) 2000
Registrar's Prize ( Royal Acadamy of Medicine in Ireland) 1997
Mental health category of the HSE Open Access awards for 2018 5 Dec 2018