Sheffield University criticised over 'never inject alone' drug advice

Drug use by some students at universities may be a reality, however the Uni dishing out advice on how to take drugs 'safely' sends the wrong message IMHO. Don't want to die from drugs, then don't take them, simples...

The sheffielduni's harm reductionist drug policy should be expanded nationally to all universities in the UK. The idea that prohibiting and stigmatising reduces drug use is ignorant at best and reckless in practice. Support networks such as the ssdpuk promote students safety.

The only people who should be ashamed are those who wrote and published this article

I guess the whole idea of harm reduction hasn’t reached them yet. They’ll be advocating safer sex next!

Students are ashamed of potentially life saving advice ftfy

Teaching "just say no' doesn't work. As a method of harm reduction teaching about the safest way to take drugs and what absolutely not to do is by far the best strategy scare stories like this are unhelpful sheffielduni keep up the good work.

It’s a shame the two student opinions were so biased! It’s sad that they feel “ashamed” of the University’s efforts to protect them against drug misuse.

Your thinking is as superannuated [comma] as the technology your paper is named after [stop] 😂

The students who're ashamed should only be ashamed that they've already forgotten the golden rule taught on day one at varsity: Challenge Assumptions!

You should look up the definition of harm reduction

'...... and the last of the Telegraph ever seen was a small group of selectively educated red-nosed gammons maundering into their lunchtime gin about the iniquities of a society they neither liked or understood. Bye bye gammons! Bye bye Telegraph!

If it saves 1 life then it's worth it, harm reduction is vital

Will there be a wine supplement in this weekends Telegraph?

Meanwhile, Torygraph, your leaders are snorting coke like it’s going out of fashion (FYI it did go out of fashion like racism and old boys clubs but don’t let that stop you from supporting all that jazz).

My daughter is at sheffielduni which I’m even more pleased about now that I know they take harm reduction so seriously. Shame on you for your 1980’s style journalism. Dangerous moralising in an age of record U.K. drug deaths.

The "never do drugs, they are bad" approach clearly doesnt work or deter some people from taking them. Turning a blind eye to the problem doesnt help anybody!

I’d be interested to know more about Sheffield Uni’s approach; seems they are trying to help people make informed decisions and reduce risk - accepting the situation as it is, not how they may wish it to be.

You know what's shameful? Attacking an educational institute for providing harm reduction information to its students -- you know, *educating* them.

Sheffield Uni should be congratulated for educating people about the dangers of drugs.

If there giving out that information It's time it was shut down

The merits of giving harmreduction advice to peoplewhousedrugs are now widely accepted - this shouldn't be any different for students!

Wonder how many committees this went though without someone saying you know what perhaps this isn't such a bright idea

Disgraceful

What where they thinking? Perhaps it was with the best intentions for keeping users safe but normalising/condoning the ‘safe’ practice of class A is a major let down for their hard working students who strive to improve their lives through further education sayNO2A

My daughter is on the uni open day trail.. I’m going to cancel sheffielduni

Difficult one, really. I assume their rationale is ‘if they’re doing it anyway, we’d rather they do it as safely as possible’?

Sheffield University is a dump now.

"...in my days at Oxford we had bedders to administer our drugs..."

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