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Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training

Course Aim

The overall aim of this course is to raise participants awareness of drug and alcohol use, how they are used and the effects. A range of aspects will be covered over the session to inform participants of different types of drug categories and specific commonly used drugs as well as more understanding of government guidelines for safe limits of alcohol use and the long-term health risks associated with it.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, it is hoped that course participants will:

  • Have more awareness of the myths surrounding alcohol
  • Know of the different categories of drugs
  • Have more awareness of why people might use drugs
  • Know what effects drugs have, physically and mentally
  • Recognise what different drugs look like
  • Have more awareness of the paraphernalia associated with drug use
  • The law relating to Controlled (illegal) Drugs.

Course Content Delivery will include individual and group work and group discussions. The course will be participatory in style. Course length will be half a day.

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