Core Alcohol Knowledge

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Course Rationale

This one day training course is designed for frontline workers who deal with clients who may have problems with their own drinking or may be affected by someone else. The course enables workers to assess how much someone is drinking, look at the kinds of problem they may have and identify the kinds of services that may be appropriate.

Aim: this course will provide the basic knowledge and skills required to identify how to respond to a client with an alcohol problem.

Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to: -

Calculate the strengths of a range of alcoholic drinks

Use the unit measuring system to assess how much a client is drinking

Describe effects of alcohol on the human body and how these changes affect behaviour

Examine stereotypes of alcohol users and perceptions of alcohol use in society

Recognise signs of problem alcohol use in a client

Provisionally assess the levels of seriousness of a client's alcohol problem

Clarify the parameters of their own role

Make appropriate referrals to the main types of local and national services

Duration: one day

Who will benefit from this course: This course is essential for workers in non drug and alcohol agencies who may have affected clients

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Just another little drink
Tobacco and alcohol, the drugs that kill the most people and cause devastating social harm are perfectly legal and trade in them is encouraged. Alcohol is responsible for at least 30,000 deaths a year. At least 520 were killed by drunk drivers in 2000. In the same year, 3,495 people died from heroin overdose. Scotland's biggest drugs is an illegal drug in a lot of the world. A 250 ml glass of wine contains 3 units of alcohol - as much as a woman can safely drink in a day. A bottle contains 9 units Alcohol withdrawal is potentially fatal.
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