Anex, a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), is offering practical and informative training sessions on methamphetamines in Melbourne, Morwell and Warrnambool.

The session will include information on the following:

• Types, forms and manufacture of amphetamines
• Physical, psychological and social implications of methamphetamine use (includes effect on the brain and the body)
• The impact of polydrug use
• Intoxication and overdose
• Short and long term psychological and physical harms
• Amphetamine induced psychosis (includes signs and symptoms, risk factors and engagement)
• Withdrawal (includes treatment and support options)
• Strategies to reduce associated harms of use
• Engaging safely and effectively with individuals under the effects of methamphetamines

Recent feedback on our ice training:

“I engaged ANEX to deliver ICE training at Self Help Addiction Resource Centre Inc (SHARC). The training was for volunteers and staff, many with lived experience and a wide range of professional backgrounds. I was impressed with the mixture of professionalism and excellent content, combined with authentic connection to the group and capacity to manage and maintain a supportive learning environment. I will use ANEX again!”

- Heather Pickard, Chief Executive Officer

Session Information:

Cost $55 including GST.

Register here

Many fatal overdoses occur when someone lets a person affected by opioids (such as common painkillers) “sleep it off” because they don’t realise that deep and unusual snoring can be a sign of an overdose already occurring.

Lucid has produced a 30 second community service announcement with the generous pro-bono support of SceneOn. This will be screened on Channel 9, 7 and Foxtel in the lead up to August 31. The community service announcement is also supported by a radio advertisement which will be distributed nationally.

As simple as this message is, it has never before been turned into a health promotion message.

The more people that know this the more lives can be saved.

See the community service announcement here, and share it with your networks.

www.overdoseday.com

Follow us @OverdoseDay
Use the hashtag #OD12

In an Australian first, Vincent will paint 30 inspirational Australians in 30 days – a portrait a day – which will then be on display at NGV Studio, Federation Square, Melbourne, 23 June to 29 July 2012.

This unique exhibition is designed to raise awareness about the widespread prevalence of drug and alcohol misuse in the community – and highlight society’s myths surrounding addiction.

Vincent Fantauzzo is one of Australia’s most renowned contemporary artists. He has worked and exhibited worldwide, from London to New York, Hong Kong and Australia. In 2008, Vincent’s entry into the Archibald Portrait Prize of the late Heath Ledger won him runner-up and the People’s Choice Award. In 2009, his depiction of the child actor Brandon Walters from Baz Luhrmann’s epic film Australia again won him the People’s Choice Award. More recently, Vincent won the Archibald Prize Packing Room Prize and the Doug Moran Portrait Prize.

For more information, or to sponsor this exciting event, please contact Nancy Bassett for more information.

Nancy Bassett
Director of Development
Phone: 03 9486 6399 (BH)
Mobile: 0419 228 260 (AH)
n.bassett@lucid.org.au