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[FONT="]Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to bring back a once popular anti-drug program, despite it being deemed as ineffective in reducing substance abuse.[/FONT][FONT="]Sessions, speaking at the Drug Abuse Resistance Education training conference in North Texas Tuesday, stressed the program has helped prevent drug abuse among young adults.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“D.A.R.E. is, I think, as I indicated, the best remembered anti-drug program today,” Sessions said. “In recent years, people have not paid much attention to that message, but they are ready to hear it again.”[/FONT]
[FONT="]Scientific evaluation studies have consistently shown that DARE is ineffective in reducing the use of alcohol and drugs and is sometimes even counterproductive -- worse than doing nothing. That's the conclusion of the U.S. General Accounting Office, [/FONT]1[FONT="] the U.S. Surgeon General, [/FONT]2[FONT="] the National Academy of Sciences, [/FONT]3[FONT="] and the U.S. Department of Education, [/FONT]4[FONT="] among many others. [/FONT]5
Blast from the past.
AG Jeff Sessions wants to bring back anti-drug program D.A.R.E. - NY Daily News
I went through this program in the fifth grade. How effective is it?
Drug Abuse Resistance Education: The Effectiveness of DARE
Yup. These are the people running our country.
Oh, and I did drugs...so...can I be the poster child?
I wouldn't be against it, but Sessions will just make the same mistakes that made DARE ineffective the first time around.
OK kids, drugs are bad. Heroine, cocaine, crack, marijuana, they will all ruin your life and your health.
*child tries weed in his/her teens, doesn't die, doesn't become a junkie, doesn't start doing heroine*
*Teen assumes everything learned in DARE was bull*****
Some early education on the dangers of opiods specifically might help if the program were taken seriously. For us, it was laughable.
I certainly don't know the answer, but the more addictive drugs are getting pretty popular. Like the old ad: " how many kids planned to grow up to be junkies?"
I agree, some of the scary drugs are pretty common place now. If the program were to focus there and leave the failed anti-weed narrative, even if its just in exchange for a more realistic "Weed isn't a life consuming addiction like heroine is, but kids shouldn't be smoking it" message, then kids and teens might take it more seriously. Count on 90%+ of high school teens trying marijuana and discovering that a lot of what they were told isn't true, and then they will look at everything they were told about drugs through that lens. This is also the point in their life where they will likely have to confront more dangerous drugs (I believe it's the years following high school graduation where most who use hard drugs try them for the first time).
I agree, some of the scary drugs are pretty common place now. If the program were to focus there and leave the failed anti-weed narrative, even if its just in exchange for a more realistic "Weed isn't a life consuming addiction like heroine is, but kids shouldn't be smoking it" message, then kids and teens might take it more seriously. Count on 90%+ of high school teens trying marijuana and discovering that a lot of what they were told isn't true, and then they will look at everything they were told about drugs through that lens. This is also the point in their life where they will likely have to confront more dangerous drugs (I believe it's the years following high school graduation where most who use hard drugs try them for the first time).
Blast from the past.
AG Jeff Sessions wants to bring back anti-drug program D.A.R.E. - NY Daily News
I went through this program in the fifth grade. How effective is it?
Drug Abuse Resistance Education: The Effectiveness of DARE
Yup. These are the people running our country.
Oh, and I did drugs...so...can I be the poster child?
If they wanna start the class off by educating kids about the opioid epidemic and exactly who's responsible for it i wouldn't mind.
But that would just breed distrust and cynicism of our government. cant have that now!
I remember DARE. It was an interesting program that I think could be a huge boon if they can roll out correctly. It seems that DARE was shown not to be effective, but I have a feeling it was a presentation problem that can be corrected. DARE should also target an older crowd that is more susceptible to the problems the DARE officer would talk to us about. How many 5th graders had problems with drugs and alcohol. DARE needs to come in phases; yearly reminders to kids and not something that 5 years later when peer pressure actually starts, DARE is a distant memory.
I would support the resurgence of a revised DARE program.
And who would you blame for the opiod epidemic?
I remember DARE. It was an interesting program that I think could be a huge boon if they can roll out correctly. It seems that DARE was shown not to be effective, but I have a feeling it was a presentation problem that can be corrected. DARE should also target an older crowd that is more susceptible to the problems the DARE officer would talk to us about. How many 5th graders had problems with drugs and alcohol. DARE needs to come in phases; yearly reminders to kids and not something that 5 years later when peer pressure actually starts, DARE is a distant memory.
I would support the resurgence of a revised DARE program.
And who would you blame for the opiod epidemic?
I wouldn't be against it, but Sessions will just make the same mistakes that made DARE ineffective the first time around.
OK kids, drugs are bad. Heroine, cocaine, crack, marijuana, they will all ruin your life and your health.
*child tries weed in his/her teens, doesn't die, doesn't become a junkie, doesn't start doing heroine*
*Teen assumes everything learned in DARE was bull*****
Some early education on the dangers of opiods specifically might help if the program were taken seriously. For us, it was laughable.
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