Courses
Browse through our facilitator-led training and e-learning courses.
Facilitator-led Training
Principles of Harm Reduction
This facilitator led course will support an awareness of the main drug related harms and understanding of the principles of Harm Reduction.
Cannabis Awareness
This facilitator led course aims to allow participants to understand how to effectively respond to and engage with individuals who use cannabis/synthetic cannabinoids.
Benzodiazepine Awareness
This facilitator led course will explore the key issues relating to benzodiazepines including street and unlicensed use in Scotland.
Alcohol Awareness
This facilitator led course aims to increase knowledge and awareness of key issues relating to alcohol use in Scotland.
Alcohol and Older People
This facilitator led course aims to increase knowledge and awareness of key issues relating to alcohol and older adults.
Understanding Stigma: Promoting Inclusive Attitudes and Practice
This facilitator led course will give participants a distinct set of knowledge and skills to help them understand and address alcohol and drug-related stigma
Mental Health and Substance Use
This facilitator led course will increase knowledge and awareness of key issues relating to supporting mental health and substance use in Scotland.
Drug Awareness
This facilitator led course aims increase drug awareness and knowledge and participants will have the opportunity to explore current and emerging trends within substance use.
Drugs and Bugs – An Introduction to Bacterial Infection Outbreaks
This facilitator led course will provide an overview of bacterial infection and various outbreaks, exploring harm reducing information relevant to bacterial infections.
Enhancing Core Communication Skills
This facilitator led course allows for the opportunity to practice core communication skills with a focus on expressing accurate empathy through reflective listening skills.
Gabapentin and Pregablin Awareness
This facilitator led course aims to explore key issues related to Gabapentinoid use in Scotland, including its effects and impacts.
Introduction to Cocaine and Other Stimulants
This facilitator led course will explore the key issues relating to Psychostimulant use including Cocaine in Scotland.
Ketamine Awareness
This facilitator led course aims to explore key issues related to Ketamine use in Scotland, including its effects and impacts.
OVERDOSE PREVENTION, INTERVENTION AND NALOXONE AWARENESS
This facilitator course explores naloxone and its role in reducing drug-related deaths, followed by a reflective practice session around four weeks later to support embedding learning into practice.
Overdose Prevention, Intervention, and Naloxone Training for Trainers
This facilitator course explores naloxone and its role in reducing drug-related deaths, followed by a reflective practice session around four weeks later to support embedding learning into practice.
Wound Awareness
This facilitator course aims to increase awareness and understanding of wounds related to injecting drug use, with a focus on recognising signs of infection, promoting safer injecting practices, and supporting timely access to healthcare.
Trauma and Substance Use
This facilitator course will support trauma-informed practice when working with people who are affected by trauma and who use substances.
Multiple Risk
This facilitator course will enable frontline workers including teachers, youth workers, college and university staff to respond to children and young people engaging or at risk of engaging in multiple risk behaviours.
Drugs and Bugs Part 2 – Bacterial Infection Outbreaks
This facilitator course will provide an in depth look at bacterial infection outbreaks and how we respond to each.
Staying Alive: Preventing Drug Related Deaths
This facilitator course will enable workers to recognise risk factors, high risk times and support people to reduce risk of drug related death.
Harm Reduction and IEP
This facilitator course will build participants’ knowledge and confidence in delivering harm reduction strategies by exploring Injecting Equipment Provision (IEP), safer injecting practices, and associated harm reduction interventions.
e-Learning
How Are Your Sites? (e-Learning)
In services, particularly those offering Injection Equipment Provision (IEP), workers should ask people who inject drugs the question, ‘How are your sites?’ . It is important to know how to recognise when injection sites have turned into wounds…
What’s happening on the streets with Benzos? (e-Learning)
Scottish Drugs Forum has put together this thought-provoking course that covers the effects of benzos and harm reduction techniques. This course also considers recent street benzos trends within Scotland.
Bacterial Infections and Drug Use (e-Learning)
After completing this course, you will know the signs and symptoms of a bacterial infection, gain an overview of different bacterial infection outbreaks in Scotland, and learn harm reduction information relevant to bacterial infections.
Cocaine Awareness (e-Learning)
People who use cocaine are not as likely to come to treatment services. That means you have an opportunity, especially if you are working in mental health services or other surrounding treatment services, to provide vital harm reduction information. By completing this course, you will learn that important, and potentially, life-saving information. By completing this course, you will learn that important, and potentially, life-saving information.
Drug Awareness – an Introductory Course (e-Learning)
Are you new to working in health, social care, or addiction support services? Are you an existing staff member looking to brush up on basic drug awareness? This course lays the foundation for all our other e-learning courses and is a great place to start.
LGBTQI+ Substance Use: An Introduction (e-Learning)
This course will take you through a short journey of LGBTQI+ history showing you how key events affect the community to this day. You will be given insight into how substances are used in the LGBTQI+ community. By the end, you will be equipped with techniques to make your service more inclusive.
Motivational Interviewing in Brief Conversations (e-Learning)
If you are a helping professional looking for answers to these questions, the counselling method called Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method you will want to explore with us in this course.
Overdose Prevention, Intervention, and Naloxone (e-Learning)
This e-learning course will show you how to administer Naloxone. Naloxone temporarily reverses an opioid overdose. You will learn facts about drug-related deaths in Scotland, how to identify an overdose and how to respond to an overdose. You will also learn how Naloxone works and how you can use it to potentially save a life.
Hepatitis B in Scotland (e-Learning)
Do you know what Hepatitis B is? Do you know how it is passed from person to person? This course is full of information about what acute and chronic Hep B is, who is at risk of infection, and importantly, who should be getting tested.
Cannabis Awareness (e-Learning)
This awareness course will give you an understanding of the different ways cannabis can be consumed, and the reasons that people use this drug. It will also provide you with an overview of the physical and mental effects of using cannabis, any associated impacts and risks of using this drug, as well as suggestions for how to reduce the risks.
Nitazenes Awareness (e-Learning)
This short course is designed to help you understand the risks nitazenes may cause, and how to be prepared to manage these risks.
Top Tips for Harm Reduction (e-Learning)
This short course will help you understand the risks and potential harms of taking substances, and offers ten suggestions for how to keep yourself and people you know safer, whilst using drugs.
Methamphetamine Awareness (e-Learning)
By taking this bitesize e-learning course, you will increase your knowledge on what methamphetamine is, its effects, and much more.
Ketamine Awareness (e-Learning)
Take this bitesize e-learning course to get a quick yet informative overview of ketamine and the impact it has on people who use it.
MDMA Awareness (e-Learning)
Increase your knowledge about the effects and risks of MDMA by taking this bitesize e-learning course.