Practical AI for people working with people
AI for Drug & Alcohol Practice
Helping drug and alcohol professionals use AI safely, practically and confidently.
Learn how to research, create, communicate and work more efficiently — while keeping professional judgement and people firmly at the centre.
View professional trainingStart with the work
What can AI help you do?
Choose a familiar professional task. You do not need technical knowledge to begin.
Save time
Use AI to structure routine work, organise information and create a useful first draft.
02Research evidence
Find questions, compare guidance and understand long reports — while checking the original sources.
03Create better resources
Develop clear handouts, worksheets, practitioner guides and educational materials.
04Improve training
Build realistic scenarios, exercises, quizzes and reflection questions for your workforce.
05Communicate clearly
Turn technical information into accessible language for different audiences and literacy levels.
06Use AI safely
Understand confidentiality, bias, invented answers, data protection and professional accountability.
A simple way to work
Understand → Apply → Govern
Effective AI use starts with understanding the tool, applying it to the right task and keeping clear professional safeguards.
- 01
Know the limits
Understand
Learn what generative AI does, where it can help and why a fluent answer may still be wrong.
- 02
Use it purposefully
Apply
Start with real professional tasks and give AI clear, non-identifiable context.
- 03
Keep people responsible
Govern
Follow policy, protect information, check the output and retain human judgement.
AI Practice Lab
Learn through work you already recognise.
Choose a realistic task, see what context AI needs, protect sensitive information and work through the human checks before using an answer.
Try the Practice Lab- 01Define the taskBe clear about the audience, purpose and output.
- 02Set boundariesLeave out identifiable or unapproved information.
- 03Review the answerCheck accuracy, bias, sources and suitability.
Popular starting guides
Begin with a practical question
Short, direct guidance for people and organisations beginning to use generative AI.
What is generative AI?
A plain-English introduction to the tools, terminology and limitations.
Read the guide →Guide 02Can I put case notes into ChatGPT?
Understand confidentiality, approved systems and identifiable information.
Read the guide →Guide 03How do I write a useful prompt?
Give AI the right context without giving it information that should stay private.
View practical prompts →Before you use an AI tool
Never assume AI is correct because it sounds confident.
Do not enter identifiable client information into an unapproved system. Check important claims against reliable sources and follow your organisation’s policy.
Learn about safe useChoose tools by task
AI tools for professional work
A vendor-neutral starting point. No platform removes the need for privacy checks, source verification and human oversight.
Professional training
AI for Drug & Alcohol Services
Practical workforce training on prompting, research, professional workflows, confidentiality, invented answers, bias and responsible human review.
Explore training →For organisations
Frontline teams
Service managers
Commissioners
Public health teams
Training and digital leads
Evidence & guidance
What does this mean for practice?
Focused guidance on developments relevant to drug and alcohol practitioners, not a generic AI news feed.
About Tony
Drug and alcohol practice first.
Tony D’Agostino brings more than 20 years’ experience in drug and alcohol practice, workforce development and professional learning to the safe, useful adoption of generative AI.
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