e-Learning
SDF offers flexible e-learning courses for anyone who wants to increase their knowledge and skills around drugs and drug-related issues.
e-Learning Courses
Our e-learning courses can be completed anywhere, at any time, at a pace that suits you. The courses are designed with accessibility and user experience in mind, to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Our courses are freely available to all learners in Scotland. Whether you are a practitioner working in forward-facing drug or alcohol services, a family member, or just an interested member of the public, you can learn about a range of topics, including: drug awareness, overdose prevention, and harm reduction.
SDF’s e-learning courses are categorised as comprehensive or bitesize. Comprehensive courses are longer, in-depth courses, that may take up to two hours to complete. The bitesize courses offer a shorter introduction to a topic, and each course can be completed in around 30 minutes. All learners will receive a certificate of completion once they finish each course, to provide as evidence of Continuing Professional Development for Health and Social Care Professionals and professionals registered with the Scottish Social Services Council.
Courses
Learn more and enrol on our e-learning courses below.
Cannabis Awareness (e-Learning)
This awareness course will give you an understanding of the different ways cannabis can be consumed, and the reasons that people use this drug. It will also provide you with an overview of the physical and mental effects of using cannabis, any associated impacts and risks of using this drug, as well as suggestions for how to reduce the risks.
MDMA Awareness (e-Learning)
Increase your knowledge about the effects and risks of MDMA by taking this bitesize e-learning course.
Ketamine Awareness (e-Learning)
Take this bitesize e-learning course to get a quick yet informative overview of ketamine and the impact it has on people who use it.
Methamphetamine Awareness (e-Learning)
By taking this bitesize e-learning course, you will increase your knowledge on what methamphetamine is, its effects, and much more.
Top Tips for Harm Reduction (e-Learning)
This short course will help you understand the risks and potential harms of taking substances, and offers ten suggestions for how to keep yourself and people you know safer, whilst using drugs.
Nitazenes Awareness (e-Learning)
This short course is designed to help you understand the risks nitazenes may cause, and how to be prepared to manage these risks.
Hepatitis B in Scotland (e-Learning)
Do you know what Hepatitis B is? Do you know how it is passed from person to person? This course is full of information about what acute and chronic Hep B is, who is at risk of infection, and importantly, who should be getting tested.
Overdose Prevention, Intervention, and Naloxone (e-Learning)
This e-learning course will show you how to administer Naloxone. Naloxone temporarily reverses an opioid overdose. You will learn facts about drug-related deaths in Scotland, how to identify an overdose and how to respond to an overdose. You will also learn how Naloxone works and how you can use it to potentially save a life.
Motivational Interviewing in Brief Conversations (e-Learning)
If you are a helping professional looking for answers to these questions, the counselling method called Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method you will want to explore with us in this course.
LGBTQI+ Substance Use: An Introduction (e-Learning)
This course will take you through a short journey of LGBTQI+ history showing you how key events affect the community to this day. You will be given insight into how substances are used in the LGBTQI+ community. By the end, you will be equipped with techniques to make your service more inclusive.
Drug Awareness – an Introductory Course (e-Learning)
Are you new to working in health, social care, or addiction support services? Are you an existing staff member looking to brush up on basic drug awareness? This course lays the foundation for all our other e-learning courses and is a great place to start.
Cocaine Awareness (e-Learning)
People who use cocaine are not as likely to come to treatment services. That means you have an opportunity, especially if you are working in mental health services or other surrounding treatment services, to provide vital harm reduction information. By completing this course, you will learn that important, and potentially, life-saving information. By completing this course, you will learn that important, and potentially, life-saving information.
Bacterial Infections and Drug Use (e-Learning)
After completing this course, you will know the signs and symptoms of a bacterial infection, gain an overview of different bacterial infection outbreaks in Scotland, and learn harm reduction information relevant to bacterial infections.
What’s happening on the streets with Benzos? (e-Learning)
Scottish Drugs Forum has put together this thought-provoking course that covers the effects of benzos and harm reduction techniques. This course also considers recent street benzos trends within Scotland.
How Are Your Sites? (e-Learning)
In services, particularly those offering Injection Equipment Provision (IEP), workers should ask people who inject drugs the question, ‘How are your sites?’ . It is important to know how to recognise when injection sites have turned into wounds…
Want to Learn More?
If there is additional learning you would like to undertake, that is not currently met by our e-learning offering, please get in touch.
We can create bespoke e-learning and training courses to meet the needs of your learners or organisation. See our bespoke courses page, or contact us for more information.