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Drug Abuse Resistance Education, also affectionately referred to as the D.A.R.E. program. Using a combination of a cuddly lion mascot, a friendly neighborhood police officer, and an overused and stolen tagline, the D.A.R.E. program is taught nationally to middle school and high school children. Despite D.A.R.E. and all of its efforts, opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 1999 in the U.S. Even though the D.A.R.E. provided police officer would beg to differ, the “Just Say No” abstinence approach is just not effective. On the other hand drugs and alcohol abuse are things that people need to be made aware of and at their own pace need to be taught the necessary skills to avoid those situations.
Founded in 1983 in Los Angeles, California …show more content…

program, “According to an article published in the August 1999 issue of the Consulting and Clinical Psychology, D.A.R.E. did not only affect teenagers rate of experimentation with drugs, but may have also lowered their self esteem” (Reaves). D.A.R.E. has a history of studies showing less than pleasing results, by 1991 there had been upwards of a dozen studies published, each claiming that D.A.R.E. had absolutely no measureable effect on drug use. The problem was, primarily, that everyone just believed it to be common knowledge that the D.A.R.E. program SHOULD work, ““Everyone believed that if you just told students how harmful these substances and behaviors are - they’d just stay away from them”, Frank Pegeuros CEO of D.A.R.E.” (Cima). On top of all of this D.A.R.E. made an attempt to cover up the studies and prolong court proceedings to combat naysayers, in addition to trying to silence critics before they even reached the public …show more content…

programs zero tolerance policy whenever they see something like friends or even family using things like drugs, alcohol, or tobacco without any instantaneous adverse consequences. This can cause them to immediately ignore legitimately useful information about the relative harms of different drugs. Another danger of D.A.R.E. program teaching policy is stressing that all drugs are bad, but what they won’t tell you is that smoking weed once will NOT make you a crack addict, however, smoking crack once WILL make you a crack addict. Most children especially teens, respond exceptionally well to the truth, and by letting them know the real risks instead of telling children that all drugs are the

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