Course Outline |
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Aims:
- To give participants a greater understanding of the injecting drug culture
- To provide knowledge on safer injecting practice and harm reduction techniques
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Participants will have opportunities to learn about/explore a range of issues including the following:
- Risky injecting practice versus safer injecting practice
- Injecting crack, heroin, speed and pills including filtering techniques
- The history and importance of harm reduction and needle exchanges
- Best practice for workers safety whilst working in a needle exchange or venue where injecting occurs
- Transmission of blood borne viruses and some of the main physical risks with injecting
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Agenda |
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| Day 1 |
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Session Content |
Methods |
| 9.30 |
Introductions. Domestics. Course outline. Group learning agreement.
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| 9.45 |
Harm Minimisation
Where does it come from and what do we mean in practice? |
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| 11.00 |
Break |
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| 11.15 |
What Drugs are Injected?
The circulatory system
Risks associated with injecting |
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| 12.30 |
Lunch |
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| 1.30 |
Safer Injecting
Familiarising selves with injecting paraphernalia
Golden rules of safer injecting
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| 3.00 |
Break |
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| 3.15 |
Transmission of Blood Borne Viruses
How to stay safe as a worker
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| 4.15 |
Review |
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| 4.30 |
Close |
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| DANOS Units - AB2, AB5, AH3 |
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