Here is the current list of DFB's drug and alcohol courses for employees. Choose the courses you want, then select the formats that work best for your company: online, CD-ROM, instructor-led, workbooks and newsletters.

Click on the six Content Domains to see descriptions of specific courses.

The rationale for drug-free workplaces, along with key features of DFWP programs.

• Substance use in the workplace: prevalence and severity
• Five DFWP program components
• Substance use policies-what to look for
• Types of assistance for employees

Highlights the prevalence and legitimacy of testing, as well as the steps and protections built into the testing process

• Your company’s testing program: covered substances, testing situations, testing methods
• The urine drug testing process and protections
• Alcohol testing: how and when it is done

An introduction to alcohol in the workplace, which dispels some common myths about alcohol and its use

• What is alcohol?
• How alcohol misuse affects all of us
• How the body processes alcohol: absorption, distribution, elimination

Up-to-date and scientifically accurate information to help people make sound decisions about drinking

• Beverage alcohol content
• Blood alcohol concentration: levels of intoxication, impairment rate factors
• Drinking behaviors: abstinence, moderation, abuse and dependence
• Self assessment using the CAGE

An introduction to the common drugs of abuse

• What are psychoactive drugs?
• “Uppers”: caffeine, nicotine, amphetamines, cocaine
• “Downers”: ethanol, depressants, opiates, inhalants
• “All-Arounders:” cannabinoids, hallucinogens, steroids

How drugs of abuse are controlled by the government, and in the workplace

• Government drug control: Controlled Substances Act, drug scheduling, regulated activities
• Illegal drug use: clinical vs. legal perspectives, prescription drug abuse, drug law enforcement
• Control in the workplace: 5-panel drugs, frequently abused prescription drugs

An introduction to marijuana, a controversial, potent and widely used drug

• Marijuana basics: prevalence, origins, routes of administration, potency trends, scheduling
• Marijuana’s intoxicating effects
• Marijuana’s acute and chronic health risks: cognition, cardiovascular, trauma, respiratory, drug combinations
• Self assessment using the CAGE

An introduction to cocaine, the second most frequently abused drug

• Cocaine basics: origins, crack cocaine, scheduling
• Effects and health risks: intoxication, acute and chronic physical and psychological health risks, patterns of use
• Cocaine’s impact: communities, workplaces
• Detection and treatment

An introduction to amphetamines, powerful and addictive central nervous system stimulants

• Amphetamine basics: methamphetamine, crystal methamphetamine, scheduling
• Effects and health risks: intoxication, acute and chronic physical and psychological risks, patterns of use
• The impact of amphetamines: communities, the environment, workplaces
• Detection and treatment: OTC and prescription stimulants

An introduction to opiates, or narcotics: highly effective analgesics that are frequently abused

• Natural and semi-synthetic opiates: opium, morphine, codeine and heroin
• Synthetic opiates: oxycodone, darvon, methadone, fentanyls
• Effects and health risks: intoxication, acute and chronic physical and psychological risks, patterns of use
• The impact of opiates: communities, prescription drug abuse, workplaces
• Detection and treatment

An introduction to phencyclidine, or PCP, a dissociateive anesthetic with bizarre and dangerous effects

• PCP basics: history, source, scheduling
• Effects and health risks: intoxication, acute and chronic physical and psychological risks
• PCP’s impact: communities, workplaces
• PCP detection and treatment

An in-depth look at marijuana and its acute effects

• Marijuana basics: prevalence, origins, routes of administration, potency trends
• Marijuana’s intoxicating effects
• Marijuana’s acute health risks: cognition, cardiovascular, trauma, drug combinations
• Self assessment using the CAGE

An in-depth look at the longer-term risks of marijuana use, as well as treatment for abuse and dependence

• Chronic health risks of marijuana use: physical, psychological, dependence and progressions risks
• Marijuana and the workplace: prevalence and impact
• Marijuana treatment: medical marijuana, treatment need, treatment approaches

An introduction to the concepts and behaviors of use, abuse and dependence, focusing on alcohol to illustrate

• Alcohol use: abstinence, situational abstinence, benefits and risks of moderate use, drinking and driving, lifetime drinking trajectories
• Alcohol abuse: clinical definition, patterns of abusive drinking, tolerance, health risks
• Alcohol dependence: the disease of dependence, withdrawal, craving, the need for treatment

An in-depth look at the theories and evidence on the causes of drug and alcohol dependence

• Risk and protective factors: concepts and examples, biopsychosocial or public health model
• Biological and psychological risk factors: the role of genes, the “addictive personality”
• Environmental risk factors: influences, availability
• Agent-related risk factors: dependence risk of specific substances

Personal strategies for preventing substance misuse, along with steps for people who may have a substance problem

• Preventing alcohol abuse: low-risk drinking guidelines, creating a low-risk drinking environment
• Handling emergencies: alcohol poisoning, drug overdose
• Towards treatment-overcoming denial: denial and other barriers to treatment
• Towards treatment-modifying relationships: impact on families, enabling, co-dependence

An in-depth look at the treatment efficacy and the treatment process for person’s dealing with substance dependence

• Treatment effectiveness: need for treatment, effectiveness of treatment
• Treatment process: treatment settings, the role of treatment professionals, timetable, detoxification, rehabilitation, aftercare, 12-step programs
• Treatment elements: medications, counseling, lifestyle changes
• Supporting a person in treatment