When Reed College students obtain an illicit drug, a campus group will lend them a chemical testing kit designed to detect dangerous adulterants in whatever they are about to consume. The private college, while strictly banning illegal drug use, nonetheless tolerates student-to-student distribution of the kits as a way to reduce the likelihood of students inadvertently poisoning themselves. "Anything students are going to do to help keep themselves safer, and reduce harm, is a good thing," says Kevin T. Myers, a Reed spokesman. When Dickinson College hosts major concerts in its auditorium, students who feel ill from consuming alcohol or illicit drugs can head to a designated area to drink water and rest while watched by sober students and emergency medical technicians. The campus chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy first got administrative approval to operate such an area in November 2014, when the university had booked an electronic-dance-music act that the campus group expected to attract users of drugs associated with the dance-club scene and known to cause dehydration and overheating.

September 13, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education