Benzodiazepine Check (2024) - Complete set

Below is a list of all the tools you will have in this collated tool.

1. Benzodiazepine - Brief Assessment: These 5 substance-specific tools help the person to evaluate their current pattern of use of alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, opioids and/or benzodiazepines, paving the way for a personalised intervention.

2. Understanding your substance use: This generic tool explores the person’s overall relationship with substances in detail, including reasons for use, impact, financial cost, potential for dependence and readiness to change.

3. Thinking about cutting back or quitting?: This tool assists the person to create an individualised plan when their aim is to modify their level or pattern of substance use. It also provides information and advice on managing cravings and sustaining change.

4. Benzodiazepine - Ways to reduce harms: These 5 substance-specific tools provide key information about each substance type alongside an interactive activity designed to increase knowledge of specific harm reduction strategies in order to minimise the risk of harm to self or others, including preventing overdose.

5. Unplanned substance use recording tool: An optional tool for those wanting to track unplanned substance use to better understand the triggers and circumstances that underpin them, thereby supporting the development of strategies for future change.

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