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Bacterial Infections and Drug Use (Outside Scotland)

Can you recognise the signs and symptoms of a bacterial infection? 

After completing this course, you will know the signs and symptoms of a bacterial infection, gain an overview of different bacterial infection outbreaks in Scotland, and learn harm reduction information relevant to bacterial infections.

Start Date 01-09-2022
Start Time 7:00 am
End Date 18-10-2031
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9996
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9996

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LGBTQI+ Substance Use - An Introduction (Outside Scotland)

LGBTQI+ people have experienced various layers of stigma for years. This has had a profound impact on their health.

 

This course will take you through a short journey of LGBTQI+ history showing you how key events affect the community to this day. You will be given insight into how substances are used in the LGBTQI+ community. By the end, you will be equipped with techniques to make your service more inclusive.

Start Date 01-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 01-10-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9997
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9997

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Hepatitis B in Scotland (Outside Scotland)

Did you know that Hepatitis B affects 9,000 people in Scotland? Do you know what Hepatitis B is? Do you know how it is passed from person to person?

This course is full of information about what acute and chronic Hep B is, who is at risk of infection, and importantly, who should be getting tested.

Start Date 02-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 01-10-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9999
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9999

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Overdose Prevention, Intervention and Naloxone (Outside Scotland)

Do you know how to respond to an overdose?

This short e-learning course will show you how to administer Naloxone. Naloxone temporarily reverses an opioid overdose. You will learn facts about drug-related deaths in Scotland, how to identify an overdose and how to respond to an overdose. You will also learn how Naloxone works and how you can use it to potentially save a life.

Start Date 03-09-2022
Start Time 12:00 am
End Date 01-03-2032
End Time 12:00 am
Available places 24995
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 24995

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HIV: Preventable and Treatable (Outside Scotland)

Do you know about the current HIV outbreak in Scotland? Would you like to expand your understanding of HIV and how it is transmitted?

This e-learning course will increase your knowledge of HIV prevention and treatment. You will also learn about the current HIV outbreak in Scotland among people who inject drugs.

Start Date 04-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 19-05-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9999
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9999

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Cocaine and other Psychostimulants (Outside Scotland)

Did you know that cocaine and psychostimulant use is increasing in Scotland? These substances are widely available and easy to access. Sadly, deaths where cocaine has been implicated are on the rise. By completing this course, you will learn vital harm reduction information.

Start Date 05-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 19-05-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9998
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9998

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What’s happening on the streets with benzos? (Outside Scotland)

Did you know benzodiazepines (benzos) were implicated in over 70% of Scotland’s drug-related deaths? Benzos are widely used in Scotland, and this has a significant impact on people and their communities.

Scottish Drugs Forum has put together this thought-provoking course that covers the effects of benzos and harm reduction techniques. 

Start Date 06-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 30-03-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9997
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9997

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Drug Awareness - An introductory course (Outside Scotland)

Are you new to working in health, social care, or addiction support services? Are you an existing staff member looking to brush up on basic drug awareness? This course lays the foundation for all our other e-learning courses and is a great place to start!

After you complete this course, you will recognise different patterns of drug use and be able to name commonly used drugs in Scotland. You will also learn vital harm reduction techniques that you can immediately put into action. 

Start Date 07-09-2022
Start Time 12:00 am
End Date 19-02-2029
End Time 12:00 am
Available places 9996
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9996

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Contraception information for people who use drugs  (Outside Scotland)

If you use drugs and/or support people who use drugs and want to know what different methods of contraception are available, then this e-learning course has been designed for you.

In this course, our trusted experts have presented different methods of contraception in an easy-to-understand way so that you can identify which methods are long-acting and reversible.

Start Date 08-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 19-05-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9999
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9999

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Hepatitis C and New Treatments  (Outside Scotland)

Do you know what Hepatitis C is? Do you know about the new Hep C treatments?

This course is packed full of information about what Hep C is, the importance of testing, risk factors, different methods of testing, the importance of treatment and the benefits of new treatments.

Start Date 09-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 01-10-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9999
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9999

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How are your sites? (Outside Scotland)

In services, particularly those offering Injection Equipment Provision (IEP), workers should ask people who inject drugs the question, ‘How are your sites?’

It is important to know how to recognise when injection sites have turned into wounds.

By focusing on the structure of the skin, skin problems in people who inject and the differences in certain types of wounds, this wound awareness course designed by Scottish Drugs Forum will help guide workers in the right direction when examining a person’s sites.

Start Date 10-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 19-05-2030
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9998
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9998

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Motivational Interviewing in Brief Conversations (Outside Scotland)

Helping professionals are often required to have discussions with people about making changes to that person’s lifestyle or behaviours. Have you ever wondered why or how conversations inspire change?

If you are a helping professional looking for answers to these questions, the communication style called Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a technique you will want to explore with us in this course.

Start Date 11-09-2022
Start Time 12:00 am
End Date 01-02-2029
End Time 12:00 am
Available places 9999
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9999

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Potluck - An introduction to cannabis and synthetic varieties for front line workers (Outside Scotland)

Do you work in Glasgow? Do you need to update your knowledge of cannabis? If the answer is yes, then this course is for you!

Our specialists at Scottish Drugs Forum have put together a course that will give you an excellent introduction to cannabis, and synthetic varieties. 

Start Date 12-09-2022
Start Time 9:00 am
End Date 01-10-2029
End Time 10:00 am
Available places 9999
Individual Price £30.00
Local Authority Area Outside Scotland
£30.00 9999

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Scottish Drugs Forum
91 Mitchell Street
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G1 3LN

T: 0141 221 1175

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