Training Packages

This one day training course is aimed at people who work in bars, nightclubs and festivals who come into contact with people who use drugs recreationally. It covers basic drugs awareness and includes the desired effects and risks of drug use, legislation and identifying and responding to drug-related issues using a harm reduction approach.

This course introduces delegates to the contested definitions surrounding what a drug is and describes the current legislative framework for psychoactive drugs, including New Psychoactive Substances.

We consider different models for understanding the range of drugs, their desired effects and the risks associated with their consumption.

This can be a one day course or half day course which looks at historical and contemporary understandings of harm reduction and identifies key strategies to help keep people safe who are considering taking legal or illicit drugs.

We identify a range of harm reduction strategies, examine the role of different staff groups in helping to keep people safe, explore typical drug presentations and associated issues, and consider how they can be dealt with from a harm reduction perspective.

This can be a one day course or half day course which explores how to create and disseminate effective drug alerts and communicate evidence-based health and risk information to the public. This course may be of particular interest to police forces, substance misuse services and public health departments.

The Loop has issued drug alerts and associated harm reduction messaging to the public for many years, and during that time has won national recognition and plaudits. Loop alerts have featured in local, national and international media as well as social media and peer reviewed publications.

This is an intensive two day course for up to 10 people which is delivered by two trainers.

On Day One we deliver the one day Loop “Reducing Harm in the Night Time Economy” course (as above) and on Day Two we look at how participants can successfully deliver that course to their own teams, covering issues such as:

aims and learning outcomes;

the importance of learning styles and their impact in terms of training delivery;

the range of training methods to support delivery;

how to deal with ‘“difficult’ delegates with challenging behaviours.

In the afternoon of the second day delegates are supported to deliver a short session of their own with constructive verbal and written feedback from both trainers.

This is a half day course which adopts an evidence-led harm reduction approach, focusing on the practical issues venues can face in this area. Recent concerns such as ‘needle spiking’ and ‘date rape drugs’ will be explored, along with the media framing of these. Attendees of the course will leave with a better understanding of drink and drug spiking and sexual harassment, as well as effective and counterproductive responses, when responding to sexual violence.

This half day course introduces the concept of ‘chemsex’, as well as sexualised drug use more generally, and looks at why people take part in it. The course looks at some of the drugs most commonly associated with it, as well as drug taking behaviours, before concluding by looking at what harm reduction responses can be used to
support chemsex participants.

This half day course updates participants with the latest trends in drug markets, including price, purity and prevalence of commonly taken drugs. Informed by The Loop’s testing, this course educates participants in market information.