Trending Drugs including New Psychoactive Substances

Target Audience

This course is aimed at practitioners who work both with young people and adults within universal services, provide an early help service or work within specialist services which sits under statutory intervention. The course provides an update into trendy drugs, legislation and the dark web.

Date

Course Code

To identify the need for future dates, please may you complete the application form for an expression of interest, using the date 01/04/2020 and course code EX33. The future date will be some time in February. Please note that the above date is not the date of training, and is only an example date.

EX33

Aims

The aim of this course is to raise awareness of the effects of New Psychoactive Substances and other trending drugs and increase knowledge of services available to Young People and Adults within Blackpool.

Objectives

By the end of the session the course participants will have been informed how:

• To understand the background of New Psychoactive Substances
• To be aware of other drugs which are prominent in the use of young people and adults
• To identify signs and symptoms of regular use
• To be aware of Legislation for New Psychoactive Substances
• To recognise the referral pathways and support available

Please make a note of the course title, code and date - these are needed for the application form