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Awareness Training

Awareness Training. Drug info @ your library. What are drugs?. Drugs are substances that change a person's physical or mental state. Source: A quick guide to drugs and alcohol , 2 nd edition. Psychoactive drugs.

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Awareness Training

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  1. Awareness Training Drug info @ your library

  2. What are drugs? Drugs are substances that change a person's physical or mental state. Source: A quick guide to drugs and alcohol, 2nd edition

  3. Psychoactive drugs • Psychoactive drugs affect the way a person thinks and feels – which may also affect the way they behave.

  4. Categories of psychoactive drugs

  5. Legal and illicit drugs

  6. What types of drugs do people use? Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2010

  7. What are people looking at?

  8. Drug equipment Standard drink How common is LSD Cocaine drug pictures Breastfeeding alcohol Ice drug facts Speed drug info Psychoactive drugs Fantasy drug Shrooms info Difference between: speed and ice ice and methamphetamine crystal meth and ice amphetamine and methamphetamine… List of: synthetics hallucinogens Benzodiazepines Banned synthetic cannabinoids club drugs…

  9. A quick guide to drugs and alcohol A quick guide to drugs and alcohol

  10. ISSUES RELATING TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL • How have drug laws changed in Australia? • Roadside drug testing NSW • Drugs in schools • Local communities common issue about drugs • History of drugs • Warnings about drug use in Australia – preventing harm • What are the laws for selling alcohol in Australia? • What are the elements required to prove the use of drugs? • Magic mushrooms and breastfeeding • Legal implications of drugs in sport • What does deemed supply drugs mean?

  11. Targeted information YOUNG PEOPLE Parents and carers

  12. GETTING HELP WITH DRUGS Australia NSW Help groups drugs Drugs and alcohol help Drug users getting help in Australia Speed drug help & advice NSW Community drug action team

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