Drug Use and Harm Reduction
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Drug Use and Harm Reduction at FutureLearn Overview
Drug Use and Harm Reduction
at FutureLearn
Duration | 3 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Drug Use and Harm Reduction at FutureLearn Highlights
Drug Use and Harm Reduction
at FutureLearn
- Earn a certificate of completion from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Drug Use and Harm Reduction at FutureLearn Course details
Drug Use and Harm Reduction
at FutureLearn
More about this course
- Over the past decades, drug use is increasingly recognised through a public health and human rights perspective
- The evidence-based harm reduction approach is based on years of global experiences and evaluated by extensive research
- This three-week course provides great insight into why it is such an effective solution
- Public health measures focus on improving the overall health of a population, changing regulations, and increasing government support
- You'll learn how harm reduction is a vital part of this approach, using an effective intervention model that saves lives, as well as protecting dignity, individual agency and other human rights
- It acknowledges the role of people who use drugs as a vital component of a public health response and promotes the idea that government and community support decrease potential risk factors
- On this course, you'll see real best-practice examples and explore how you can advocate scaling up harm reduction to make a real impact on individual and public health issues, as well as protecting the human rights of people who use drugs
Drug Use and Harm Reduction at FutureLearn Curriculum
Drug Use and Harm Reduction
at FutureLearn
Harm Reduction and public health
Welcome to the course
What is Harm Reduction?
The public health dimension of drug use and harm reduction
Bringing it all together
Human Rights and Community
The human rights dimension of drug use and harm reduction
The community at the heart of the response
Bringing it all together
Scaling Up Harm Reduction
Advocating for Harm Reduction
Bringing it all together
Goodbye
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