In an emergency, always speak to a member of security staff or dial 999.

The concept of STASH, Student Alcohol and Substance Help, is for students to provide support to those in their community who may develop an unhealthy relationship with alcohol or substances during their studies.

STASH is one of our newest SLS’ and is still in the development phase. We are actively searching for new members who are committed to pragmatic harm reduction strategies that are vital to protecting the student population from the negative effects of alcohol and substance use.

What we do

The Students’ Union have created a infrastructure to deliver a Drug Testing Kit Collection Service – and we want you to help us run it.

You may be able to refine a SLS that:

• Provides links to external organisations and charities.
• Updates the student population on local drug alerts.
• Signposts advice to students struggling with alcohol or drug dependence.
• Campaigns to ensure that the Union and the University make sensible, evidenced based decisions when creating policy concerning the use of alcohol or drugs.

Some helpful links

• talk to frank – general information on a range of substances
• the loop – pragmatic advice on how to stay safe
• Welsh Emerging Drugs and Identification of Novel Substances (WEDINOS) – free, confidential forensic testing of drugs, and collect data that can help inform other users too.

What’s next?

If you would like to get involved in STASH and the delivery of the Union’s new harm reduction strategies, please email StudentLedServices@cardiff.ac.uk 

Membership