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Report: Illicit drug use in universities: zero tolerance or harm reduction?
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Drug use
Drug abuse
Zero tolerance
Safeguarding
Mar 3, 2022
Student drug use: three outstanding questions
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Drug use
Drug abuse
Safeguarding
Zero tolerance
Mar 3, 2022
Universities should be more tolerant of drug use if they are to keep students safe from drug harms
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Drug use
Drug abuse
Zero tolerance
Safeguarding
Mar 3, 2022
Help university students take drugs more safely, report recommends
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Drug use
Drug abuse
Zero tolerance
Mar 3, 2022
Zero-tolerance drug policies stop UK students seeking help, report says
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Zero tolerance
Drug use
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Mar 3, 2022
Zero-tolerance university drug policies do more harm than good
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Zero tolerance
Drug use
Drug abuse
Mar 3, 2022
Zero-tolerance campus drug policies ‘do more harm than good’
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Drug use
Drug abuse
Zero tolerance
Mar 3, 2022
If punishing student drug users is the answer, what is the question?
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Drug use
Feb 18, 2022
Drugs crackdown will deter young people seeking help, students warn
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Drug use
Student support
Dec 7, 2021
Stakeholder engagement is the only way out of the higher education drugs problem
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Stakeholder engagement
Drug use
Drug abuse
Oct 4, 2021
Cocaine death puts Oxford college in the firing line
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Oxford
Drug use
Substance abuse
Feb 11, 2021
Is it still too dangerous for researchers to admit drug use?
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Research
Drug use
Jan 25, 2021
Banned: Primary school teacher found with cocaine
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Teacher ban
Drug use
Jan 14, 2021
'Ketamine is big here': why Bristol University is testing drugs for its students
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Bristol University
Drug use
Oct 29, 2020
Drug-taking is more risky in locked down uni halls than at nightclubs
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Coronavirus
Drug use
Safety
Student welfare
Oct 17, 2020
Drug dealers slip 'calling cards' under doors at uni halls where 2 students died
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Drug dealing
Drug use
Student accommodation
Oct 7, 2020
Drug dealers slip their cards under lockdown students’ doors
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Drug dealing
Drug use
Student accommodation
Oct 7, 2020
Lack of nightclubs and 10pm curfew may have contributed to students’ suspected drugs deaths, expert says
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Coronavirus
Lockdown
Drug use
Safety
Oct 6, 2020
Three students dead after ‘bad batch of drugs’
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Drug use
Safety
Oct 5, 2020
We can't ignore the rise in drug incidents in schools
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Drug use
RSE
Curriculum
Safety
Jun 1, 2020
Scotland: Drug culture is behind pupils’ poor exam results, teacher warns
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Scotland
Exam results
Pupil performance
Drug use
Feb 6, 2020
The excluded: I lie awake crying, powerless to deal with hell of son’s exclusions
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Pupil exclusions
Behaviour
Drug use
Jan 24, 2020
Pupils collapse after vaping 'Spice' sold as 'natural cannabis'
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Drug use
Dec 17, 2019
Men pictured openly injecting drugs in front of children near Manchester school
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Drug use
Safety
Safeguarding
Nov 25, 2019
George Watson's College pupils to leave school after drug probe amid 'ecstasy dealing' claims
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Drug use
Scotland
Private school
Nov 19, 2019
Going to pot: British university campuses face a drugs epidemic
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Drugs
Universities
Campus
Drug use
Sep 22, 2019
A lesson in drugs from the Michael Gove school of dabbling
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Drug use
Michael Gove
Drugs
Jun 23, 2019
Michael Gove banned four teachers for cocaine possession
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Teacher bans
Drug use
Jun 10, 2019
Let's talk about the criminal age of responsibility
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Drug use
Jun 10, 2019
School exclusions for drugs and alcohol at ten-year high as 'county lines' gangs are blamed
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Pupil exclusions
Drug use
Substance abuse
Gangs
Apr 30, 2019
Popular children to be recruited as anti-drug 'influencers' in Government funded project
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Drug use
Apr 23, 2019
Biggest-ever drug prevention trial launched in schools
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Drug use
Apr 23, 2019
Testing kit or ban? How universities are tackling student drug use
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Drug use
Students
Student unions
Mar 29, 2019
Case review highlights early help failures in Croydon
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Safeguarding
Vulnerable
Gangs
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Pupil support
Feb 28, 2019
Teenage cannabis use linked to depression in later life
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Drug use
Depression
Mental health
Feb 27, 2019
Two 13-year-olds charged over 10 school pupils taken ill after 'swallowing tablets'
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Drug use
Drugs
Scotland
Jan 19, 2019
Scotland: Police called to school after 10 pupils consume tablets
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Scotland
Drug use
Jan 18, 2019
Scotland: Dunfermline High School pupils fall ill after ‘taking tablets’
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Scotland
Drug use
Jan 18, 2019
Scotland: Pupils in hospital after 'drug-related' incident at Dunfermline High School
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Scotland
Drug use
Jan 18, 2019
Universities are paying police to protect students amid fears over crime
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Safeguarding
Drug use
Campus
Northampton University
Jan 5, 2019
Buckingham University won’t turn a blind eye to drugs
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University of Buckingham
Sir Anthony Seldon
Drug use
Drugs
Dec 26, 2018
Sex, drugs and harm reduction policy
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Drug use
Safety
Oct 24, 2018
More student unions set to offer drug-testing kits at universities, NUS says
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Drugs
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NUS
Oct 8, 2018
Britain's first drug-free university? Buckingham's Vice Chancellor forces students to sign 'zero tolerance' contracts
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University of Buckingham
Drug use
Students
Oct 8, 2018
Should universities tell students how to take drugs safely?
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Students
Drug use
Student support
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Oct 2, 2018
Children exposed to YouTube drug clips
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Drug use
Online safety
Social media
Jul 16, 2018
Ireland: Student Luke O’Brien May’s death ‘is a warning against taking steroids’
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Drug use
Sports
Jul 6, 2018
Teenagers as young as 14 admit to taking smart drugs to pass the 'hardest ever exams'
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Exams
Drug use
Jun 19, 2018
Young people 'see cannabis as safer than alcohol'
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Drug use
Secondary
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Jun 19, 2018
Teens as young as 14 admit taking ‘smart drugs’ to pass ‘hardest ever GCSE exams’
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GCSEs
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Jun 19, 2018
Response to the recent survey on students’ attitudes towards illegal drugs
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Drug use
Students
Survey
Jun 15, 2018
Drug-binge student fell off crane
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Drug use
Students
Jun 15, 2018
Student, 19, took Ketamine at black tie ball before plummeting to his death from crane
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Students
Drug use
Jun 14, 2018
Most students think taking illegal drugs causes problems for users as well as society and want their universities to take a tougher stance
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Students
Drug use
Undergraduates
Jun 12, 2018
Three-quarters of students have never tried drugs and most want universities to clamp down on people who do, shock survey finds
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Drug use
Undergraduates
Students
Jun 12, 2018
Modern students 'prefer work to drugs'
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Students
Drug use
Undergraduates
Jun 12, 2018
Majority of students want universities to take repeated drug use more seriously, study finds
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Students
Drug use
Undergraduates
Jun 12, 2018
Drug use less prevalent among students than thought, poll suggests
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Students
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Undergraduates
Jun 12, 2018
Students clean up their act as they turn down illegal drugs to focus on studies
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Students
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Undergraduates
Jun 12, 2018
Students call for crackdown on drug use
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Students
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Undergraduates
Jun 12, 2018
Universities told to act on study drugs
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Drug use
Academic performance
May 22, 2018
Drug abuse and mental welfare at university
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Students
Drug use
Mental health
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May 21, 2018
Hard drugs are the new normal at university
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Drug use
Students
May 19, 2018
Pupils 'vomit blood and have seizures' on school grounds after 'taking Spice' at Cambridgeshire secondary
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Secondary
Drug use
May 3, 2018
Six pupils rushed to hospital after 'taking zombie drug Spice and collapsing at school'
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Secondary
Drug use
May 3, 2018
Daily roundup 27 April: Mental health; county lines, and criminal responsibility
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Mental health
Drug use
Apr 27, 2018
Colleges students need more information about drugs to keep them safe
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Colleges
Drug use
Students
Apr 26, 2018
Universities should stop reporting student drug dealers to police
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Drug use
Students
Apr 26, 2018
Drugs 'used by two in five students'
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Drug use
Students
Apr 26, 2018
'Archaic and harmful': report condemns strict handling of student drug takers
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Drug use
Students
Apr 26, 2018
Universities told to stop reporting students caught with drugs to police after hundreds referred to forces
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Students
Apr 26, 2018
Spare student drug users, union argues
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Drug use
Students
Apr 26, 2018
Pocket money feeding drug habits, says schools chief
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Drug use
Apr 23, 2018
Written answer re protecting pupils from new psychoactive substances
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PSHE
Children and Social Work Bill
Apr 12, 2018
Head of private school warns about the 'rising tide' of drug abuse in schools
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Pupils
Mar 26, 2018
'I take 'smart drugs'... despite risks'
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Drug use
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Students
Mar 15, 2018
Daily roundup 28 February: Maths premium, drug and alcohol courts, and serious case review
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Maths
Funding
Drug use
Feb 28, 2018
Ireland: Anger at plan for heroin centre near primary school
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Ireland
Primary schools
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Feb 20, 2018
Daily roundup 19 February: Social mobility, Prince Harry, and cannabis
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Feb 19, 2018
What are your experiences of supplement use in school sport?
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Secondary
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Feb 19, 2018
Action needed to address schoolboy doping vulnerability
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Drug use
Secondary
Sports
Feb 16, 2018
School rugby players sold supplements by teachers
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Teachers
Sports
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Feb 16, 2018
Oxford student fell to death after taking ketamine
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Oxford University
Drug use
Students
Feb 16, 2018
Warning that PE teachers found selling pupils supplements ‘might encourage doping’
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Teachers
PE
Drug use
Feb 15, 2018
Head fined for cocaine possession and drink-driving struggled with school pressures
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Headteachers
Primary
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Feb 8, 2018
Primary school headteacher slams parents for smoking cannabis at school gates
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Primary schools
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Drug use
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Feb 7, 2018
Schoolgirls unable to walk after popping Xanax pills at lunch
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Drug use
Academies
Secondary
Feb 7, 2018
Six schoolgirls are rushed to hospital after 'taking too much of the anti-anxiety drug Xanax'
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Drug use
Wellbeing
Feb 6, 2018
Stop swearing and taking drugs, head tells parents
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Parents
Behaviour
Drug use
Language
Feb 5, 2018
More than one in ten 14-year-olds admit to binge drinking
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Drug use
Alcohol
Behaviour
Jan 24, 2018
Teacher who sold drugs to class is jailed
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Teachers
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Drug use
Nov 30, 2017
Scotland: Student found dead on Edinburgh College campus
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Nov 28, 2017
Cambridge student Thomas Millward died after taking legal high
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Universities
Drug use
Cambridge University
Nov 21, 2017
Cambridge student died in fall after taking legal high, inquest told
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Cambridge University
Drug use
Nov 20, 2017
Research gives insight into young people's drinking, smoking and drug habits
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Secondary schools
Drug use
Alcohol
Nov 8, 2017
Design and technology teacher banned for taking cocaine
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Drug use
Nov 6, 2017
Secondary school pupils who have taken drugs and alcohol has increased
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Drug use
Secondary schools
Nov 2, 2017
Universities must act as use of drugs to deal with stress grows, says academic
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Herald Scotland
Universities
HE
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Scotland
Oct 4, 2017
Fettes College pupil expelled from £30,000-a-year school after turning up to chapel service on ecstasy
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Telegraph
Scotland
Drug use
Boarding schools
Expulsion
Sep 19, 2017
Scotland:Boy expelled after just one week at school for turning up to mass high on pills
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Drug use
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Sep 19, 2017
Fettes pupil expelled after taking ecstasy
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Scotland
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Sep 19, 2017
School exclusions: Record numbers for drugs and alcohol
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BBC
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Jul 21, 2017
Drug use at university where student died is up by a third
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Jul 4, 2017
Middle-class parents contributing to teen addictions by 'handing over bottles of vodka', warns top therapist
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Independent
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Jun 26, 2017
Let students use study drugs and let's sell them at Boots, says Cambridge scientist
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Jun 24, 2017
University of Dundee to fight epidemic of addictive drugs
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Jun 19, 2017
Head teacher pays tribute after girl's death in Cowcaddens
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BBC
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Secondary schools
Jun 12, 2017
Daily roundup 2 June: Sleeping pills, school uniform and reading
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Wales
Drug use
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Literacy
National Literacy Trust
Jun 2, 2017
Top private school pupils more likely to end up with drug and alcohol addictions, new research reveals
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Independent
Private schools
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Girls
Affluence
Jun 1, 2017
Professors take same ‘smart drugs’ as students to keep up with workloads, claims academic
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Independent
Academics
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Universities
Workload
May 30, 2017
Growing use of smart drugs by students could be a recipe for disaster
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The Conversation
Drug use
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Anxiety
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Stress
May 30, 2017
Are you an academic who has taken drugs to keep up with work? | Rachel Obordo
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Guardian
Universities
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May 30, 2017
The dark side of an elite Oxbridge education
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Times
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Oxford University
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May 23, 2017
Lib Dems to legalise cannabis 'to protect young people'
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CYPN
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May 12, 2017
Marijuana use linked to poorer school performance, major new research reveals
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Independent
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May 11, 2017
Universities must do more to tackle use of smart drugs, say experts
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Guardian
Universities
Drug use
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May 10, 2017
Smart drugs at university: share your stories
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Guardian
Universities
Drug use
Exams
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May 8, 2017
Government funds school resource for drug and alcohol prevention
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ADEPIS
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PSHE
Mar 13, 2017
Oxford University Student Union introduces 'smart drug' workshops for students
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Telegraph
HE
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Drug use
Mar 6, 2017
Clever teenagers twice as likely to smoke cannabis, study finds
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Independent
Secondary schools
Drug use
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Feb 23, 2017
Clever teenagers twice as likely to smoke cannabis due to their curious minds, study finds
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Feb 23, 2017
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