Provider: Urrus/The Ballymun Youth Action Project
Address: Horizons Centre, Balcurris Road, Ballymun, Dublin 11
Contact: Administrator
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Email: urrus@byap.ie
Telephone: 01 846 7980 / 01 842 5726
In-person
This half-day workshop is designed for persons working or volunteering in the drugs field and who wish to enhance their professional understanding of safer injecting practice.
Content includes:
• Different types of hypodermic injecting (e.g., intramuscular/intravenous).
• Differences between Veins and Arteries.
• Vein, artery and neural damage associated with needle use.
• Vectors of infection.
• Demo and practice of safer injecting technique as a harm reduction strategy.
• Best practice and ethics in assessing and advising service users on injecting.
Those working or volunteering in the drugs field.
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Contact URRUS. See website https://byap.ie/services/urrus
Urrús (the Irish word for strength / confidence) was founded in 1996 by BYAP to provide training in relation to drug misuse. We have developed a range of training modules on drug misuse, addiction and community responses, and are continually developing new modules in response to emerging needs.