Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Drug & Alcohol Awareness Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

The Misuse of Drugs Act creates three classes of controlled substances – A, B and C, and different penalties, depending on the class, for illegal or unlicensed possession and possession with intent to supply.

(1) Subject to any regulations under section 7 of this Act for the time being in force, it shall not be lawful for a person to have a controlled drug in his possession.

(2) Subject to section 28 of this Act and to subsection (4) below, it is an offence for a person to have a controlled drug in his possession in contravention of subsection (1) above.

(3) Subject to section 28 of this Act, it is an offence for a person to have a controlled drug in his possession, whether lawfully or not, with intent to supply it to another in contravention of section 4(1) of this Act.

(4) In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (2) above in which it is proved that the accused had a controlled drug in his possession, it shall be a defence for him to prove —

(a) that, knowing or suspecting it to be a controlled drug, he took possession of it for the purpose of preventing another from committing or continuing to commit an offence in connection with that drug and that as soon as possible after taking possession of it he took all such steps as were reasonably open to him to destroy the drug or to deliver it into the custody of a person lawfully entitled to take custody of it; or

(b) that, knowing or suspecting it to be a controlled drug, he took possession of it for the purpose of delivering it into the custody of a person lawfully entitled to take custody of it and that as soon as possible after taking possession of it he took all such steps as were reasonably open to him to deliver it into the custody of such a person.

In England, there are over 40,000 hospital admissions every year for drug and alcohol-related mental health and behavioural disorders. Substance misuse has an enormous impact on private lives, personal relationships, and people’s workplaces.

Drugs and alcohol contribute to lost working days and reduced productivity, costing the country as much as £6 billion – not to mention the strain that the related health issues put on the NHS. Poor decisions, impaired judgement, and reduced awareness can all lead to injuries; all it takes is just one person in a workplace affected by drugs or alcohol to put everyone at risk. This drug and alcohol awareness training course will make your workplace safer, increase productivity, and save money by raising awareness of the effects that drugs and alcohol have on an individual, their colleagues, and the wider workplace.