Training materials: Drug Workers: What You Need to Know About: Mental Health, Welfare Rights, Housing, Blood-Borne Viruses, Young People, Children of Drug-Using Parents DrugScope

Drug Workers: What You Need to Know About: Mental Health, Welfare Rights, Housing, Blood-Borne Viruses, Young People, Children of Drug-Using Parents DrugScope
ISBN 1904319424,
£8.95

STAR RATING: 4/5

Drugs work is increasingly carried out in a multi-agency environment where workers have to communicate with a range of professionals including medical staff, social services and housing in order to deliver the best support and care for service users, writes Sue Rana.

Drugs workers should be familiar with the basics of some of the main issues that face clients over and above drug problems. This is a useful manual for a drug worker, or for anyone interested in entering the field of working with drug users.

The issues covered are the most required subjects when working within the drug field.

For example, the chapter on mental health has a helpful easy-to-follow breakdown of diagnosis.

Drug Workers really does cover all you need to know on each subject. It’s another three cheers for DrugScope.

Sue Rana is senior drug worker, Bradford City substance misuse services