This course is an introduction to drugs, alcohol and mental health and how they affect each other. The course encourages participation and sharing of lived experiences.
We will:
- Discuss attitudes to substance use and mental health
- Recognise life factors increasing the risk of dependency
- Understand how dependency changes the brain
- Understand how dependency seems to help and the long term consequences
- Recognise the stages of change
- Consider the affect on families
- Develop a toolkit for handling cravings
- Discuss experiences of substance use on mental wellbeing
