Understanding Psychoactive Drugs - Cairns

Prerequisite eLearning: Online Induction Material – Module 2 

NB: This course is a pre-requisite for the “Assessing and Managing Withdrawal” workshop.

This workshop covers foundational knowledge and concepts required to work in the alcohol and other drug field.

Topics covered include:

• History of substance use, statistics, prevalence and rates of use
• Moral, legal, disease and bio-psychosocial models of substance use
• Australian drug policy frameworks and guidelines
• Basic neurobiology and pharmacology
• Routes of administration
• Patterns of use and harms from substance use
• Intoxication and overdose
• Tolerance, dependence and withdrawal
• Foundational therapeutic concepts including the Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Changes)
• Overview of the Queensland AOD Treatment System
• The evidence-base underpinning therapeutic interventions

Presenter: Jennifer Brazier

Please directly contact Jennifer.Brazier@health.qld.gov.au for workshop information.

NB: Participants will be required to provide their own lunch.

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