Meeting the Challenge: relapse prevention and cocaine

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Course Rationale

‘Meeting the Challenge’ is a manual and workbook about relapse prevention published by DrugScope. They suggest techniques for working with people who have crack/ cocaine problems and are looking to abstain or control their usage.

The workbook contains a series of tools that, with support, clients can use to help them understand how their drug use is affecting them and ways that they can bring about change. it contains sections on action planning, goal setting as well as managing triggers and high risk situations. Suggested techniques are appropriate for individual client work and also for group work.

Based on the manual, this course will look at the core elements of working with people who have problems with crack and cocaine. It provides key information about the effects of short term crack/ cocaine use and harm reduction advice. In particular, we will look at some of the issues that may disturb a group process and practical ways in which they can be minimised.

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Objectives

By the time the course has finished, participants will be able to:

Carry out risk assessments to minimise difficult situations rising with a client

Explain to a client how they may be affected by patterns of crack and cocaine use

Link any interventions to the ‘cycle of change’

Suggest methods for reducing harm to clients,

Help a client to identify triggers and high risk situations

Suggest techniques to help a client manages their cravings

Help clients to monitor the recovery process

Structure a range of interventions to use when a client relapses

Duration: two days

This course is designed and delivered in association with DrugScope - the UK centre for drugs information.

Cocaine use has presented a number of challenges for drug services.

Many were set up to deal with injecting opiate users who were often prescribed a substitute medication.

To work with people who are primarily cocaine users requires substantial changes in what workers may do and how services are planned.

Although medication may be prescribed to manage a lot of the psychological symptoms that people have when they stop using, no cocaine alternative is routinely given in the UK.

Despite this treatment for cocaine users is available and can be highly effective.

Many services now offer individual counselling sessions, group work and a range of alternative therapies.

In addition, many people will require a great deal of support to get back to normal life.

This course looks at many of the issues that arise in both one to one and group work with service users.

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