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Needle Exchange and Safer Injecting (2/3 day course)

About the course: an essential course for all workers who engage with injectors. The course is intended to increase knowledge, skills and confidence in delivering effective, proactive harm reduction interventions to injecting drug users, in needle exchange and other settings

Who the course is for: all workers who engage with injectors. Includes needle exchange workers, hostel staff, nurses, drugs workers and criminal justice workers.

Duration: two or three days

Objectives:

Increased understanding of why people inject
Differentiate substance-specific issues for injectors
ability to describe human anatomy for the purpose of understanding injecting
Ability to identify and respond to risk
Awareness of legal issues
Ability to identify correct equipment for specific injecting tasks
Increased skills to educate and undertake harm reduction work
Strategies to reduce sharing
ability to identify key complications
ability to promote alternatives to injecting

Issues covered in three-day course:

Why people inject
Injecting and human physiology
Where people inject
Injecting technique
IV use
IM use
High risk activity
Sharing and infection
Equipment
Legal issues
Injecting injuries
Harm reduction strategies
Hard-to-reach groups
Work with young people
Models of exchange provision
Sharps handling
Needle stick injury
Record keeping

Format: Taught sections, small groups work and work in pairs, homework and group discussion.

Handouts: Manual on safer injecting and further reading

DANOS Modules: AA2, AA3, AA4, AB2, AB5, AF2, AH3, AH4

Sample feedback:

"found this course really enjoyable. facilitator was well organised and extremely knowledgeable..."

"to have a trainer who delivers with such enthusiasm is a pleasure. Lots learned and would highly recommend."

"thoroughly enjoyed it . will speak very positively about this course..."

"would recommend this course to colleagues"

"amazed how little I knew"

"excellent, informative, believe it will positively on practice"

"well thought out and enjoyable."

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