Benzodiazepine Awareness (e-Learning)

Benzodiazepines are often implicated in Scotland’s drug-related deaths. Street benzodiazepines are continuously changing – it is essential to keep up with the risks and effects of these substances.

The Scottish Drugs Forum’s benzodiazepine awareness e-learning gives a great insight into the reasons people use benzodiazepines, how they use them, and how they can be supported.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Have an awareness of benzodiazepine use in Scotland and be able to identify the reasons why people use them
• Be able to recall how benzodiazepines are used, and the potential effects, harms, and wider impacts of their use
• Understand how to support people using benzodiazepines including harm reduction techniques