16 May 2009
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Alcohol: myths & facts
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Alcohol: societal attitudes, patterns of consumption and units
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Alcohol: strategies for controlled drinking
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Lapse, relapse & collapse prevention: strategies & interventions
The Just Say Know
Drug & Alcohol Awareness Training has,
since 2002, provided workshops, courses and consultation to a wide variety of
service providers across East Sussex. Informed by an appreciation
of the role and importance of altered states of consciousness in all human societies throughout
history, the training offers a meaningful framework with which to actually understand
drugs and drug taking behaviours rather than simply condemning them. In seeking
to step outside the current mad and bad, weak and wicked, any-use-as-abuse
orthodoxy of prohibition (with its roots in cultural imperialism, historical
revisionism, religious intolerance, racism and class bias, not in health, safety or science), the harm
minimisation orientated training explores a range of approaches and
perspectives that the evidence confirms
as more practically useful way
of communicating to, understanding and working with people who use alcohol and
drugs, as well as offering a range of experiential exercises for trainees to
participate in.
- To
allow the participants to dispel a variety of common myths and increase
their levels of alcohol awareness.
- To
enable participants to identify the ways in which belief can influence
experience.
- To
enable participants to familiarise themselves with the history and approaches
underpinning the different theories which seek to explain why people use
drugs and/or alcohol.
- To
allow the participants to dispel a variety of common myths and increase
their levels of alcohol awareness.
- To
enable participants to identify the ways in which belief can influence
experience.
- To
enable participants to familiarise themselves with the history and approaches
underpinning the different theories which seek to explain why people use
drugs and/or alcohol.
Dave McNamara