Substance Misuse Awareness
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- Course level: Intermediate
Description
Information based sessions aimed at those with no or little knowledge about drugs and alcohol.
What Will I Learn?
- After completing this course participants will be;
- More aware of the prevalence of drug use in Northern Ireland
- Able to define what a drug is and the categories of drugs
- Able to name drugs most commonly used, their effects and methods of use
- Able to identify the legal classes of drugs and penalties
- More aware of the different levels of harm for the user / their family, associated with different patterns of drug /alcohol use
- Aware of the links between drug/alcohol use and other issues, e.g. mental health; homelessness; child protection; community safety; sexual health
- Have considered their own attitudes and values to drug use and drug users
- Aware of local drug and alcohol services and how to refer to them.
About the instructor
16 Courses
2108 students
Free
Requirements
- This is a virtual course delivered over zoom and the link is provided in the ‘description’ section.
- You will be sent a reminder with joining instructions prior to the course.
- Once you have attended the course you will need to return to this page and select 'complete course' to fill in a short course evaluation form, which will release your certificate of completion.