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Drugs Awareness - Enhanced Skills (Intermediate Course)

Duration: one day or two day course

Appropriate for: People who have previously attended basic drug awareness training or have previous experience working with users.

About the course: This course is the "next step" for workers who have previous training or knowledge. It fulfils several critical aims. Firstly it reviews and corrects "technical knowledge" to ensure that commonly-held misconceptions are corrected and looks at accurate terminology and concepts.

The course goes on to explore some of the less common drugs, and highlights key relevant facts relating to these drugs.

Participants go on to explore the wonders on neuropharmacology, providing a firm foundation for understanding all the key drugs, how they work, and how dependence and withdrawal is likely to occur.

Finally the course locates this technical knowledge within a practical context to explore how to implement knowledge in real-world strategies.

The course has proved popular even with the most cynical and jaded workers. Workers with many years experience have found the course useful.

Objectives:

Provide more detailed knowledge about commonly used controlled drugs
Increase understanding of how drugs are used
Increase understanding of how key drugs work on the brain
Develop detailed understanding of how drugs and drug use can cause problems
Increase confidence in assessing drug use and planning interventions
prove skills in talking about drugs to various groups.
Increase ability to identify appropriate responses and make appropriate referrals.
Improve skills in educating and communicating about drugs

The course includes:

Drugs in detail; understanding chemical states
Introduction to neurotransmitters
More information about how drugs work: neuropharmacology
Modelling addiction and dependency
Routes of administration and physiology
Less common drugs

Format: Taught sections, work in pairs and small groups, whole group discussion.

Handouts: Include basic drugs and advanced drugs literature

DANOS Mapping: AA1, AA3, AA4, AB1, AB3, AB5, AC1, AD1, AD2, AD4, AH4, AH7

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