
Addiction, dependency & recovery print version \| course feedback
Develop your understanding of addiction and treatment by exploring the role of drugs within society, the factors that contribute to the drug using experience and how people change. Learn what tolerance, withdrawal, addiction and dependency mean. Gain more confidence to work with drug & alcohol users.

Duration: This is a one day course Tutor(s): Phil Harris. Dates:
21/09/2010
25/01/2011

Notes:

Course Outline

Aim

To develop the groups understanding of critical issues in working with drug use and addiction.

By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:

understand the context of drug use
describe the key concepts of dependency and addiction
understand the philosophy of harm reduction
identify the client’s readiness for change
assess the clients needs and make appropriate referral \ interventions

Agenda

Day 1

Times	Session Content	Methods
9.30	Introductions.	Presentation / Large group
9.45	Session One: Why Do People Take Drugs? Drug use and society Initiation factors The function of drug use	Large and small groups
11.00	Break
11.15	Session Two: Why do People Develop Problems? Dependency vs. addiction The meaning of addiction Tolerance Withdrawal Relapse	Large and small groups
1.00	Lunch
2.00	Session Three: How Do People Change? Harm reduction Intentional change: What is it? Assessing readiness	Large and small groups
3.00	Break
3.15	Session Four: How Can We Help? Matching intervention to stage of change Referral	Large and small groups
4.30	Close

DANOS Units - AA1, AB2, AB5