Course overview
Why do I need this course?
- Understand the impact of drug and alcohol misuse on individuals and communities
- Recognise signs of misuse to intervene early and offer appropriate support
- Challenge stigma by learning the facts about addiction and recovery
- Improve safeguarding outcomes by identifying hidden harms and risk factors
What will I learn?
- Types of substances commonly misused and their effects
- Risk factors and signs of substance misuse in different age groups
- How to respond to concerns and support individuals effectively
- The role of safeguarding in addressing substance misuse
Who is this course for?
- Health and social care professionals working with vulnerable individuals
- Youth workers, educators and community support staff
- Safeguarding leads and frontline responders
- Anyone seeking to understand and address substance misuse issues
Course details
This course offers you the chance to update your knowledge on drugs and addiction. In it you’ll learn about ‘legal highs’, why drug addiction occurs, and what the law says about possession and supply as well as the impact drugs can have, how people are treated for drug abuse and addiction and how you can best respond to someone who has problems in this area.
The course contains additional resource materials, useful links and a refresher guide.
Upon completion of this course, the learner will:
- Know what a drug is
- Learn the categories that different substances fall into
- Know what a ‘Legal High’ is
- Know what the law is on possession and supply in relation to drugs
- Understand what addiction is
- Learn why someone would become addicted to drugs
- Understand how drugs misuse can affect families
- Learn the signs that someone has a problem with addiction
- Learn the best treatment for addiction
- Know the best practice when dealing with substance abusers
- Learn about drugs that affect the human body and mind
- Learn about the different ways drugs are taken and how this affects the body
- Learn about tolerance and the risk of overdose
- Learn about substance induced psychosis
This course is made up of the following modules:
- Substance awareness
- Effects of drugs on the body and mind
- Addiction treatment and good practice
- Course Length: 90 mins
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