I got a question about drugs =o?
Question by Enrique: I got a question about drugs =o?
Do you believe that an educational program such as D.A.R.E. can take kids away from drugs, or are there reasons for teenage drug abuse so complex that a single school based program is doomed to fail?
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Answer by darcey
Good question. I would have to say both. kids are so diverse that it is hard to find the right program to fit all types of kids.
Answer by Dan
The DARE program doesn’t work:
In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States placed the D.A.R.E. program in the category of “Does Not Work”
Researchers at Indiana University in 1992 found that those who completed the D.A.R.E. program subsequently had significantly higher rates of hallucinogenic drug use than those not exposed to the program.
In 1995, a report to the California Department of Education by Joel Brown Ph. D. stated that none of California’s drug education programs worked, including D.A.R.E. “California’s drug education programs, D.A.R.E. being the largest of them, simply don’t work.”
In 1998, A grant from the National Institute of Justice to the University of Maryland resulted in a report to the NIJ, which among other statements, concluded that “D.A.R.E. does not work to reduce substance use.”
In March 2007, the D.A.R.E. program was placed on a list of treatments that have the potential to cause harm in clients in the APS journal, Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Some have called DARE “welfare for cops”.
And I agree with you, reasons for drug abuse are complex, including everything from poverty to the fact that our brains are wired to seek things that make us feel good, even if those things might be bad for us.
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