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Drugs and Young People

The fear of drugs and substance crazed youth committing crime to get high is common throughout society.
But what are the facts?
This course looks beneath the stereotypes at the facts of what is really known about drugs and who uses them in British society.
No matter what the press says:

• The biggest drug killers in Britain are perfectly legal.
  • One of Scotland's biggest legal exports is an illegal drug in large parts of the world.
  • Giving someone else one of your prescribed pills may make you a dealer in the eyes of the law.
  • Alcohol is one of the more expensive ways of getting intoxicated.
  • Class A drug usage in Britain is no longer increasing amongst people aged 16-59.
  • 3 million people smoked cannabis in 2002/3.
  

This course seeks to enable workers to explore their own attitudes and to look at how they can provide an appropriate service to individuals they may meet. It will provide key knowledge and skills required to identify how to respond to a client with a drugs problem

Objectives

By the end of the course participants will be able to:
• Use common street names for illegal drugs
• Describe how various kinds of drugs affect the body
• Identify how common stereotypes of drug users block access to treatment
• List reasons why people use illegal drugs
• Identify when drug usage becomes a problem
• Use the 'cycle of change' model to find ways to work with a client effectively
• Work within appropriate legal frameworks
• List circumstances when it is appropriate to involve another agency.

Who will benefit from attending?

This course is essential for workers in non drug and alcohol agencies who may have affected clients

Length 1 day – 9:30 – 4:30 (or equivalent)

This course is designed and delivered in association with DrugScope

DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs and the national membership organisation for the drug field. Our aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related harms - to individuals, families and communities. We provide quality drug information, promote effective responses to drug taking, undertake research, advise on policy-making, encourage informed debate - particularly in the media - and speak for our member organisations working on the ground.

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Please note
All our courses are commissioned for groups and organisations. If you have more than three people who would benefit from working together on this topic, use the link at the the bottom of the page to contact me, or click here to find out more about getting us to deliver a programme.

We regret that we do not have an open access programme