Building consensus for harm reduction approaches in UK universities: a qualitative study with staff and students

The study has highlighted that there is strong support for a shift away from zero-tolerance approaches to student drug use, although this needs to be accomplished incrementally and in ways that address stakeholder concerns and safeguard university reputations. Working with a 'whole system' philosophy was identified as good practice whereby university policy was embedded within a local or city-wide approach which helped to facilitate the acceptance and development of harm reduction.