Drug And Alcohol Course

What will I learn?

Improve your skills as a health worker with our detailed Drug and Alcohol Course. Learn well about how drugs and alcohol affect people, from the social and mental problems they cause to the physical damage they do. Become good at writing clear reports and making treatment plans that fit each person. Understand what happens when people stop taking drugs or alcohol and learn different ways to help them, like support groups and talking therapies. Learn how to check people properly and create strong plans to help them recover. Make your work better with useful, good knowledge that you can use straight away.

Develop skills

Enhance the development of the practical skills listed below

Understand how drugs and alcohol affect people: Know the social, mental, and physical problems they cause.

Manage withdrawal symptoms: Know and deal with common health problems people get when they stop taking drugs or alcohol.

Develop treatment plans: Make good plans to help people change their lives and recover.

Document professionally: Write reports that are easy to understand.

Conduct assessments: Do mental health checks and talk to patients properly.

Suggested overview

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before getting started, you can adjust the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to begin with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can include

You'll be able to create more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional growth. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.