Substance Misuse
This course offers you the chance to update your knowledge on drugs and addiction. In it you’ll learn about ‘legal highs’, why drug addiction occurs, and what the law says about possession and supply as well as the impact drugs can have, how people are treated for drug abuse and addiction and how you can best respond to someone who has problems in this area.
The course contains additional resource materials, useful links and a refresher guide.
This course is made up of the following modules:
- Substance awareness
- Effects of drugs on the body and mind
- Addiction treatment and good practice
On completion of this course, learners will:
- Know what a drug is
- Learn the categories that different substances fall into
- Know what a ‘Legal High’ is
- Know what the law is on possession and supply in relation to drugs
- Understand what addiction is
- Learn why someone would become addicted to drugs
- Understand how drugs misuse can affect families
- Learn the signs that someone has a problem with addiction
- Learn the best treatment for addiction
- Know the best practice when dealing with substance abusers
- Learn about drugs that affect the human body and mind
- Learn about the different ways drugs are taken and how this affects the body
- Learn about tolerance and the risk of overdose
- Learn about substance induced psychosis
FAQs
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