ITV News understands new guidance outlining 'harm reduction' over 'zero tolerance' could be in place as early as September. | ITV National News
UK universities could be set to introduce a more-lenient stance towards drugs on campus if they adopt guidance set to be issued this autumn.
It follows Bristol becoming the first UK city to roll out a complete 'harm reduction' policy towards recreational drugs, one which its universities also adopted.Instead of criminalising people who chose to use illegal drugs - sometimes called taking a zero tolerance stance - harm reduction involves making support and advice available to users.Bristol's Student Union helped Bristol University roll out their harm reduction approach.
"If they're taking drugs we can talk about it - whereas at another uni [then] maybe they'd have got into trouble or [would have] got hurt." "It's the approach of talking about things and testing things, and that's the sort of approach we'd support.
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