Drug And Alcohol Awareness Course

This Drug And Alcohol Awareness Course helps you understand and respond to issues around drugs and alcohol among young people. You’ll learn what drugs are, how to recognise them, and how young people may experiment with alcohol. The course also covers drug language, risks, signs and symptoms of use, and how to talk about these topics confidently and sensitively.

Young people can be influenced into trying legal and illegal substances. Therefore, we need to have an open and non-discriminatory attitude to understand and support them with their drug use.

This course is suitable for people working in children’s services or residential childcare.

This course will cover:

Lesson 1 – Introduction

• Drug language
• What do drugs look like?
• Young people and alcohol
• New psychoactive substances
• Summary

Lesson 2 – Introduction

• Drug use
• Reasons for drug use
• Risks of drug use
• Signs and symptoms
• Summary

Lesson 3 – Introduction

• Talking about drugs and alcohol
• The recovery process
• Alcohol and smoking
• Getting help
• Resources
• Summary

By the end of the training, you will:

• Understand what ‘drug’ means.
• Learn how to understand conversations about drugs.
• Know what the effects of drugs are and what they look like.
• Learn how young people experiment with alcohol.

This Drug and Alcohol Awareness course is for people who want to build understanding, confidence, and empathy around issues of drugs and alcohol for the children and young people in their care.

This course is suitable for people working in children’s services or residential childcare.