The Outer Hebrides Alcohol & Drug Partnership and Health Promotion staff delivered a session on Substance Misuse and Alcohol Brief Interventions.

The morning session included a discussion on local and national alcohol and drug data, the different drugs and categories followed by an interactive exercise focussing on a person in recovery, the factors that can lead to harmful and hazardous drinking and the different services that can be accessed.

The afternoon session focused on health impacts of alcohol, raising awareness of units and strengths of alcoholic drinks and how to calculate these and how to undertake an alcohol brief intervention.