Drugs Awareness - Enhanced Skills (Intermediate Course)

Duration: one or two days

Appropriate for: workers who have undertaken basic drugs awareness, understand key facts about drugs but need to developtheir skills as they will be engaging extensively with on-going users.

About the course: Having completed a basic drugs course, many workers feel that they want to learn more, to consolidate their knowledge and experience and put it on a more practical basis. This course takes drugs awareness training to the next level, building on knowledge gained during basic drugs training, and increasing knowledge, skills and confidence.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the course, workers will be able to:

The course includes:

• Drugs refresher - Q+A about key drugs
• Less common drugs - input regarding some more unusual substances
• Routes of administration - pharmacokinetics
• drug using careers - transitions and trends
• Models of addiction - what they mean to workers
• Cycle of change and hierarchy of need - making them practical
• Basics of neuropharmacology

Format: The course will involve taught sections, small group work and work in pairs.

Handouts: The course will be accompanied by "Drug Facts" Handouts and additional literature by arrangement.

DANOS Modules: AA1, AA4, AB2, AB5, AC1, AD1, AD2, AD4

Notes: This is a flexible course that can be tailored for delivery in a number of settings (e.g. housing, young people specific, community, etc.)