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Module 6: how drugs work: learner's workbook

Topic 11: Reducing drug-related harm

Page last updated: 2004

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Young people, society and AOD

Working with families, peers and communities

Key issues

11.1 Understanding drug-related harm

11.2 Thorley's model of drug-related harm

11.3 The four L's model

11.4 Harm minimisation

11.5 Specific harms related to drugs and drug use
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  • Table of contents
  • Section A
    • Background
    • Target occupational groups
    • Approaches to service delivery
    • Project resources
    • Developing your learning plan
    • Using the learner workbook
    • Information for distance and work-based learners - your facilitator's role
  • Section B
    • Topic 1: Introduction
    • Topic 2: Introduction to how drugs work
      • 2.1 What is pharmacology?
      • 2.2 Why is pharmacology important?
      • 2.3 The limitations of pharmacological knowledge
      • 2.4 Finding more information about how drugs work?
    • Topic 3: Classifying drugs
      • 3.1 Classifying drugs by their effect on the central nervous system
      • 3.2 Naming drugs
      • 3.3 The legality of drugs
    • Topic 4: How psycho-active drugs act on the body
      • 4.1 The effect of drugs on the central nervous system (CNS)
    • Topic 5: How drugs move through the body
      • 5.1 Methods of drug administration
      • 5.2 Speed of drug effect
      • 5.3 Elimination of drugs from the body and drug half-life
    • Topic 6: Drug effects
      • 6.1 Factors influencing drug effects
      • 6.2 How drugs affect young people differently
    • Topic 7: Effects of specific psycho-active drugs
      • 7.1 Short-term and long-term drug effects
      • 7.2 The placebo effect
    • Topic 8: Key issues in pharmacology
      • 8.1 Intoxication
      • 8.2 Tolerance
      • 8.3 Physical and psychological dependence
      • 8.4 Drug interactions
    • Topic 9: Managing overdose
      • 9.1 Overdose and identifying those who are at high risk
      • 9.2 Management of overdose
      • 9.3 Heroin overdose - a special case
    • Topic 10: Management of withdrawal
      • 10.1 Withdrawal symptoms and the rebound effect
      • 10.2 Assisting young people withdrawing from drugs
    • Topic 11: Reducing drug-related harm
      • 11.1 Understanding drug-related harm
      • 11.2 Thorley's model of drug-related harm
      • 11.3 The four L's model
      • 11.4 Harm minimisation
      • 11.5 Specific harms related to drugs and drug use
    • Topic 12: Summary and conclusion
    • References
    • Key terms
    • Possible answers for writing exercise questions

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