ONLINE Drugs and Human Psychology course ONLY £19

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be awarded a Certificate of Achievement. This should help validate their learning experience and skill, and can be used as a resume builder.

This Course Covers the Following

-A Historical Background on Drug Use
-A Brewing Disaster: Chronic Heroin Abuse
-Drugs and the Society
-The Various Uses of Drugs
-Commonly Abused Drugs – Stimulants and Narcotics
-What are Stimulants?
-Commonly Abused Drugs – Hallucinogens and Marijuana
-The Hallucinogenic Effect
-Commonly Abused Drugs – Steroids
-Common Symptoms of Drug Abuse
-Legal Intoxicants – Alcohol
-The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
-Legal Intoxicants – Caffeine, Tobacco, and Solvents
-How Nicotine affects Circulation
-Prescription vs OTC Drugs
-The Danger of OTC Misuse
-Drug Review: Sedatives and Anxiety Medications
-Drug Review: Barbiturates
-Drug Review: Benzodiazepines
-Drugs for Schizophrenic and Patients with Affective Disorders
-The ‘Schizophrenic’ Label
-Drug Awareness and Treatment
-Key Interventions to Drug Addiction
-The Scientific Approach to Drug Addiction
-Fighting Addiction: Alcoholism and Drug Misuse

Drug addictions had caused numerous problems like medical issues to the person, emotional damage to the person misusing the substance and even to the people around them like friends and families. It is quite challenging and difficult to quit an addiction but the awareness of how harmful it is to the body may provide a window of hope to finally stop and get rehabilitated.

At the end of this course, students shall learn how to:

(1) be familiar with the history of the use and misuse of drugs in society;

(2) understand the effects of drugs on the individual and society;

(3) be familiar with stimulants and narcotics;

(4) be familiar with hallucinogens and marijuana;

(5) be familiar with steroids;

(6) be familiar with alcohol;

(7) be familiar with tobacco, caffeine and solvents;

(8) understand prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs;

(9) understand sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs;

(10) be familiar with prescription drugs for schizophrenia and affective disorders and

(11) be familiar with treatment and preventative education.

To achieve these goals, this course shall make use of interactive materials to present the concepts of the topics to be discussed. Assessments shall be done after the entire course to check for knowledge retention and understanding.

It is difficult to tell who gets to be addicted. There are factors that may have caused addiction. There are possibilities that some people are more prone because they are seeking more pleasure and they find less in other areas of their lives such as work, friends, families, recreation and even romantic partners. Learn about it to know how to help them out.

This course does not work on Tablets and Mobile Phones.

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