Drug and Alcohol Awareness

Drug and Alcohol Awareness

This Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training has been designed to equip employers, managers, and employees with the knowledge to recognise the signs and symptoms of substance abuse; to understand the effects addiction has on both physical and mental health, and to make clear the impact substance abuse has on a workplace and their legal responsibilities regarding it.

There were over 345,000 hospital admissions with a diagnosis of drug or alcohol related mental health, behavioural disorders or illnesses in 2018.

Learning outcomes

• Have a better understanding of the negative effects of drugs & alcohol
• Understand your responsibilities regarding drugs and alcohol
• Learn what can be done about the problem through people and policies

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

1. Understanding substances
2. Substance misuse
3. Support

About this course

Every year thousands of lives are ruined by alcohol and drug abuse. Private life suffers, health suffers, jobs suffer.

Thousands of people seek treatment every year for drug and alcohol abuse. Substance dependency is a serious problem that damages the health of individual users, affects their relationships with family and friends, can be dangerous to their colleagues, and even has wider knock-on effects that impact tax-payers and society as a whole.

It results in as many as 17 million lost working days every year, costs £6 billion in productivity, and treatment for alcohol and drug-related health issues and injuries puts a huge strain on an already overstretched NHS.

Just one person in the workplace affected by drugs or alcohol can put everyone at risk; this course aims to raise awareness of substance abuse so that it can be dealt with before it becomes a problem at work.

This Drug and Alcohol Training course is intended to raise awareness about substance abuse and the effects it has on users and the workplace, it doesn’t replace face-to-face training which is needed in addition to complete the all-round skills and knowledge to be able to carry this forward practically within your organisation.

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Misuse of Drugs Act creates three classes of controlled substances – A, B and C, and different penalties, depending on the class, for illegal or unlicensed possession and possession with intent to supply.

Business benefits

In England, there are over 40,000 hospital admissions every year for drug and alcohol-related mental health and behavioural disorders. Substance misuse has an enormous impact on private lives, personal relationships, and people’s workplaces.

Drugs and alcohol contribute to lost working days and reduced productivity, costing the country as much as £6 billion – not to mention the strain that the related health issues put on the NHS. Poor decisions, impaired judgement, and reduced awareness can all lead to injuries; all it takes is just one person in a workplace affected by drugs or alcohol to put everyone at risk. This drug and alcohol awareness training course will make your workplace safer, increase productivity, and save money by raising awareness of the effects that drugs and alcohol have on an individual, their colleagues, and the wider workplace.

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