Why do drugs all have different effects? What makes drugs addictive?
In response to very positive feedback to our ‘Smarties activity’ places are now available for our one day ‘Drugs and the Brain’ workshop.
The course aims to answer theses questions and guide you through this fascinating topic that captivated people’s imagination during some recent Alcohol workshops we’ve been running in Hampshire.
Mephedrone is a drug that has gained a lot of attention recently and for good reason.
In response to a large number of requests for information from individuals and agencies IWS have teamed up with Hampshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team to offer a series of free 2hr briefings in May and June for anyone working with young people in Hampshire, with limited spaces also available for anyone working in other parts of the country.
Reading time 10 minutes
Bold reading time 5 minutes
At a recent event I got into a discussion with a speaker about how taking drugs might impact on a person’s ability to recognise emotion in other people.
Well there is some evidence to support this. The speaker was relativly new to the subject and asked if I would prepare a short paper outlining some of the studies that have looked at this.
Well I wrote the paper and thought it may be of interest to readers of the blog:
