Alcohol & Substance Abuse At Christmas

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About the course

This one-day course for healthcare professionals will cover the essentials of assessment and treatment of illicit drugs and alcohol in the community.

We will start by looking at the national and local data on substance misuse to help participants understand the problem.

The course will cover the basics of evidence-based alcohol and opiate treatment with an emphasis on good practice. We will provide an introduction to psychological interventions for other drugs such as cocaine and MDMA.

Harm reduction interventions are crucial in the management of opiate users and we will discuss new interventions in this area as well as the importance of peer support networks.

Finally, we will briefly describe the structure of community drug and alcohol services and the interventions they offer so that learners will be able to make appropriate referrals for their patients.

Learning objectives

Explaining substance misuse in communities	Principles of screening for and delivering a brief intervention for alcohol	Principles of safe detoxification
Principles of opiate substitution	Management of risk including prevention of drug related deaths in opiate users

Course programme

The course will cover:

Epidemiology and patterns of use
Assessment of the drug and alcohol user
Evidence and indications for brief interventions (BI)
How to deliver a BI using FRAMES methodology
When and how to detox from alcohol – NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) guidelines
Principles and practice of opiate substitution – NICE and clinical guidelines.
Where to start with non-opiates
Drug-related deaths and prevention in opiate users, and how to prevent overdose
Principles of harm reduction. Provision of take-home naloxone
How community services are structured and provided
Alcoholics anonymous and other types of peer support.

Course presented by

Dr Emily Finch

Facilitator, Clinical Director & Addictions operational directorate

Dr Finch is the Addictions Clinical Academic Group (CAG) Clinical Director with responsibility for Addiction services across Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth. She is currently ...

Dr Nicky Kalk

Facilitator, Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist & Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Dr Kalk has ten years’ experience in addictions research and continues to be research active in various areas relating to substance and behavioural addiction, and associated psychiatric c...

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Target audience

Assistant psychologist, Clinical psychologist, Consultant – non-psychiatry any, Consultant – psychiatry, CT1-3 – non-psychiatry any, CT1-3 – psychiatry, Doctors, FY1, FY2, GP, GPVTS, Health visitor, Other, RMN, Social worker, ST4-7 – non-psychiatry any, ST4-7 – psychiatry

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We are able to offer custom-made programs, whether digital or face to face, to meet the education and training needs of your organisation in the UK or internationally. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss your requirements and develop a proposal.

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Let our team complete a full Training Needs Analysis for a department, directorate, or the whole hospital! We can work to complete this ourselves or work collaboratively with your own staff. Our standard outcome measures assess learner progress and produce a full report looking at wider impact of training using a range of tested assessment methodologies.

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