hird-level colleges will have to provide drug and alcohol-free student accommodation and provide on-campus social spaces without access to drink under a new Government health initiative.
The measures are contained in a “framework on tackling substance abuse” which was sent to the presidents of all higher-education institutions in recent days.
The move follows concern over drug use among young people following the deaths of a number of college students from suspected overdoses in recent years.
Last year, Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor convened a “rapid response group” – including academics, gardaí, students and first responders within institutions – to devise an action plan to deal with substance abuse on college campuses. She said the actions she is asking colleges to take on foot of this will ensure “all of our institutions have robust policies” to tackle these issues.
Source: Carl O'Brien, Irish Times, 26th February 2020
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