The University of Manchester (UoM) has been awarded part of a £5m government fund for a project aimed at reducing student drug use. The innovative new student education programme led by UoM is one of five new projects aimed at reducing recreational drug use to have been awarded money by the innovation fund.
As university is usually the first time young people will have lived away from their parents, for some, that new freedom coupled with opportunities for recreational drug taking can lead to experimentation.
This is demonstrated by the fact that university students are almost twice as likely to have used an illegal drug in the last year compared with other people of the same age.
