Drug Related Deaths:  Anticipating, Preventing and Responding

This 1 day course looks at how workers and organisations can assess local trends, establish strategies to reduce deaths, and work with users and other services to achieve this reduction.

Appropriate for: Drugs Workers, hospital staff and paramedics, police, service managers, frontline staff and peer-educators: previous drugs training will be required

Objectives: 

• Understand what is a “drug-related death.


• Be able to differentiate between immediate, medium term and long-term deaths


• Understand how key substances can cause deaths,


• Be aware of high risk groups and symptoms, and warning signs


• Understand the role of supervised consumption in methadone prescribing


• Have explored strategies in working with users and partner agencies


• Familiar with national strategy and key documents


• Be able to develop strategy to assess local trends


• Understand key life saving messages to deliver to users, families and peers

This course is delivered by KFx and is FREE to attend.  Lunch and refreshments provided.