1 day course:

Objectives:  

• List key new or re-emergent compounds being used in the UK


• Recount key legal issues for emergent drugs including the PSA


• Describe how the Dark Web is used to procure substances and implications


• Locate old and new compounds within a categorisation framework


• Explain the pharmacological action of key types of compound


• Ascribe key facts to specific new compounds especially




• synthetic cannabinoids, newer benzos, emergent opiates,




• describe core principals in working with unknown compounds


• Describe harm reduction interventions applicable to newer compounds


• List key sources of information for new and emergent compounds

Course includes:

• Terminology – NPS, CDs, Legal Highs and other terms


• The legal framework: MoDA, Psychoactive Substances Act 


• A brief history of NPS – from Shulgin to Spice


• Trends and changes in NPS use


• Categories: tryptamines, phenylethylamines, cannabinoids etc


• A very crash course in drugs and brain chemistry


• Working with unknown compounds


• Key drugs: SCRAs, Benzos (including Alprazolam/Xanax),Pregabalin, newer opiates (including fentanyls), MDMA, Nitrous Oxide


• Harm reduction intervention

This course is delivered by KFx Training and is FREE to attend:  Lunch and refreshments included.