Dare Program

Children, starting as early as elementary school, are being educated on substance abuse. As of 2013, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, D.A.R.E., administers a school-based substance abuse, gang, and violence prevention program in 75 percent of the United States school districts. Since 1983, 70,000 police officers have taught the D.A.R.E. program to approximately 114 million elementary through high school students in the United States alone ("Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids K-12?"). This program is aimed at preventing drug use in elementary, middle, and high school students. A needle-exchange program implicitly encourages the exact opposite message, condoning immoral and illicit behavior. Governments should focus on discouraging drug use, providing more productive treatment for recovery, and punishing drug users instead of supplying the materials to continue their addiction. Young children have the potential to take more risks and must receive a clear message on drugs, which should coincide with the no tolerance policy they are being taught in school with implementation of the D.A.R.E. program. A needle-exchange program is more of a hopeful harm reduction campaign that sends the wrong message to young children and society as a whole. If there is to be a positive change in America regarding intravenous drug use, then the government and school programs all need to be on the same page; we

Why Is the Dare program the one to blame for kids abusing illegal substances? The Dare program is said to do good but the harsh reality it's that dare program does not help prevent drug use rather than doing that it does the opposite. I believe the dare program is unaffected and outdated and is possible danger towards kids. Dare instead of helping it causes more harm. The dare program is ineffective. The good it does is outshine by the bad long term.

As the pressure on students to perform well in school becomes more apparent, students in response have started to abuse ADHD medication not prescribed to them as a way to focus in on their studies. Over 6% of high school seniors abuse these types of drugs, and this number is projected to increase as the number of ADHD (diagnoses’ ???) cases rise in the United States. My county specifically has seen a sharp rise in this type of drug misuse. This summer, I was given the opportunity to work in conjunction with the United Way of Forsyth County as an intern. I was assigned to the youth drug council awareness team with the goal of finding solutions to reduce teen ADHD drug usage in my county.

Now reading through the procon.org article on D.A.R.E there are many pros, but the sad truth is that the bad outweighs the good. In the article the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) says the program reportedly “lower alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among youth” and those who haven’t been through the program…...well they were unsuccessful in helping prevent those kids with drug use.Another pro is that the program “improves” social making skills and has good effects on students' knowledge of drugs, social skills, decision making skills, and attitude towards law enforcement. A case study by the university of Akron showed that a 6 % of the students who went through the program show a higher decision making skills than those who didn't go through the program. 6 % that's a very low number out of all those kids they go around and teach, something that caught my attention on the con side is that, 40% of students told researchers of the program that they weren't at all influenced by D.A.R.E. If you read this far I bet you’re wondering about this serious and important question. Since we learned that the program members goes around school to school informing the kids, why is it that they aren’t successful with completely having 100% of the students off drugs? Makes you wonder if they are taking their jobs serious enough if D.A.R.E

Programs that talk about drug and alcohol prevent such as D.A.R.E is funded by this committee. This committee is also responsible for the educational needed of students in the juvenile justice

Understanding how to persuade people to not abuse drugs is not always simple. Teaching people to be abstinent is hard to do because you do not know what people are really going to listen to you after the prevention program has ended. When you are learning about drug prevention as a teen it can be hard

Hi! My name is Isabella Hinojosa and I am in D.A.R.E. class. D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and Define Assess Respond Evaluate. First, I will tell you about alcohol Some examples of alcohol is beer,wine,and liquor.

America is wasting money on campaigns that don’t work. D.A.R.E, a program that goes to schools in America, hasn’t made any more progress than giving five dollars to a psychopath murderer. (Vance 1) D.A.R.E. is a program that schools use to explain what drugs do to you, and how they affect your life. A national survey on Drug Use and Health led made by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services says; “Drug

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program known as D.A.R.E has become a very widespread and popular program throughout the United States. The program appeals to all ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic lines, which is a large part of the reason why the DARE program has grown exponentially. The program’s basic premise was meant to introduce kids to the danger of drugs, before the drugs got to them. The implementation of the DARE program appeared to be what America needed to begin to put a dent in the war on drugs.

D.A.R.E is something you can learn so much from. D.A.R.E helps kids all around the world by showing them that there is better things to do besides drugs and alcohol. The kids that follow D.A.R.E do not usually get into trouble. They also always have somewhere to go. In my community I have somewhere to go if you want to hang out. Also if you do hang out you have a drug and alcohol free place. I really like D.A.R.E.

60% of school districts have cut out the program completely since 2001 according to the article “N.J. School Drug-Abuse Prevention Group in conflict with National DARE Program,” and according to guidestar.org, the Dare program has also dropped over 6 million dollars in total revenues since

In his peer– reviewed journal Perspective and Psychology, Scott O. Lilienfeld, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Emory University, states that D.A.R.E. may increase intake of alcohol and other drugs, making it a "potentially harmful therapy." He went on to say D.A.R.E. "overestimates the number of children and adolescents who engage in drug abuse," and normalizes the use of substances like alcohol because of an "excessive focus on severe substances" such as cocaine and heroin. The program therefore violates the physician and psychologists' Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm.”

The D.A.R.E. program has become the national symbol for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education programs, which are partnered by experience police officers, parents and schools throughout the United States. All D.A.R.E. officers are those who are members of agencies that share the responsibility protecting the trademark mission that is D.A.R.E. This program has been taught in all 50 states and at least 49 countries. During the late 1970’s and early 1980’s there was an unparalleled rise with drug among our youth in Los Angeles. As a result, in 1983, the Los Angeles police department decided to form this program.

School –based drug use- prevention programs such as DARE, Project Alert, and Life Skills Training program have been designed to keep kids from illiciting drugs. Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is an educational program usually delivered by a police officer. The 17 week program components are learning refusal skills, teen leaders, making a public commitment not to use illicit drugs. Also, affective education components include: self-esteem building, alternatives to drug use and decision making. Research on the effectiveness of

The importance of preventing children from drug usage starts at early ages. Education and school facilities can only occupy children for 7-8 hours a day. The rest of the afternoon leaves children vulnerable to negative influences. Most children use after-school programs as a way to stay out of trouble, escape the turmoil of being abused at home, or spend time with youth instead of being lonely and alienated.