BNU Publishes Manuals to Codify a Drug‑Free Safe Campus Model

Overview

• Beaconhouse National University unveiled two manuals — Campus Care: A Guide to Psychological First Aid and From Risk to Resilience: BNU Substance Use Control Program — to formalize a campus model linking substance‑use prevention with mental‑health support.
• The launch took place at a public ceremony attended by senior provincial ministers, vice chancellors, and officials from the Anti‑Narcotics Force and Punjab Counter Narcotics Force on Saturday.
• BNU says the model shifts responses from punishment to early intervention and empathy by training staff in psychological first aid, expanding counselling, and creating confidential reporting and referral systems.
• The Punjab government pledged support for wider adoption, and the Higher Education Commission has set up a committee led by Dr. Moeed W. Yusuf to assess replicating the framework across universities.
• The manuals draw on UNODC, WHO and UNESCO guidance and target drivers of student vulnerability such as family trauma, peer pressure, and communication gaps, with BNU planning campus trainings, peer support and extracurricular alternatives next.