Substance use, intoxication and withdrawal management: 26 April Hamilton 2024

This workshop is now full, please email Tayla.williams@tepou.co.nz to be added to the waitlist.

Substance use, intoxication and withdrawal management is a workshop for workers who have completed Blueprint for Learning’s Addiction 101 workshop or similar or have experience working in the addiction space in either a community or clinical setting.

The workshop will help workers to:

• understand the function of substance use and the impact of stigma on help seeking
• recognise harmful and risky substance use
• develop practical strategies to assess and manage behavioural disturbance due to intoxication and withdrawal
• recognise and respond to withdrawal.

The workshops will also explore:

• how to engage with people who use substances
• what is harm reduction
• how to provide harm reduction advice for people who continue to use substances
• how to refer to specialist addiction services
• other community supports.