School Based Drug Use Prevention Programs

These programs help educate children to the dangers of drugs and alcohol. In addition, faculty learn the signs and symptoms of these abuses. Some programs go to the extent of having guest speakers, the same age as the students, giving their testimony to how a substance affected them. Many organizations such as the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention and the Department of Education, who made the Truency Reducation Demonstration Program. These two organizations specifically target areas with high truancy rates and offer training on reducing these numbers through reward programs and other incentives (Henry, 2010). The National Association of School Nurses have created “Smart Moves, Smart Choices,” as an education program for substance abuse prevention. Along with, the National Education Association who provide materials to schools and curriculum ideas for integrating prevention programs into the classroom (Schachter, 2012). Within this curriculum, there are short videos that grab students attention along with guest speaker who have first hand experiences with substance abuse. As a more preventative measure, schools are inacting Suspicionless Random Drug testing that can be administered to students in particular schools. More schools are even going to this type of preventative measures. The Office of National Drug Control Policy is actively trying to gather funds for schools to

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

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.

Evidence Based Programs. Most evidence based substance abuse prevention education programs are sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration known as SAMHSA. According to Skager (2007), SAMSHA has developed over 158 programs which are qualified and registered into the National Registry of Evidence Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). Although evidence based approaches have been predicted to have more promising effects on drug prevention than other approach types, little evaluation and research has been conducted to fully assess outcomes (Skager, 2007).

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

Drug Abuse Resistance Education programs are the most widely used drug education programs targeted towards elementary children in the United States. Since the 1980’s over a million children across the United States have been introduced to the D.A.R.E’ program. The program began implementing there curriculum into school system to educate children on drugs and gangs. The common goal for this program is to deter students from the hard life of drugs and gangs and help them steer on the right path.

So for those of you who don’t know about the program, it’s a program that goes around schools presenting the phrase D.A.R.E. D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. According to D.A.R.E., it teaches effective peer resistance and refusal skills so that adolescents can say “no” to drugs and their friends who may want them to use drugs (D.A.R.E. America). So basically it provides children with the information and skills they need to live a drug and violence free lives. Most people would agree that D.A.R.E. is an effective program for all ages, but studies have shown that in the long run, the D.A.R.E. program does not help prevent or reduce the use of illicit drugs in elementary, middle, or high school students.

The biggest problem in the United States outside of schools has begun to inflict harm to those schools and their students. A student who abuses drugs on a day to day basis will not retain as much data as one who abuses them even every other day. No kind of abuse is good abuse, but if one person can cut their usage in half then there is hope for abusers everywhere. Years of research has continually shown that “there is a direct link between teen substance abuse and how well you do in school (Think 1)”. With all of this research being done to help kids, most will never acknowledge it until it is too late. The reform occurring in schools across the country is the incorporation of “NO Drug” rallies. With a soul purpose of directly targeting students that don’t believe in what people say about drug abuse, these rallies have changed the lives of countless

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.

Executive Summary America’s most popular anti-drug program D.A.R.E. has created an uproar. The D.A.R.E. program had many issues the main one being its ineffectiveness. How could the most widely used drug prevention program in the United States be deemed ineffective? What went wrong? “The prevention of drug abuse is an especially salient topic for school psychologists and other educational professionals. Schools are the primary setting for providing education and information aimed at the prevention of drug abuse. Previous meta-analyses” (Ennett, et al., 1994; West & O 'Neal, 2004) indicate that one of the nation 's most popular drug prevention programs, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (D.A.R.E.), was not effective in reducing illicit drug use among youths. Current evaluations have produced an array of evidence showing the effectiveness of the new D.A.R.E. curriculum. Future studies must be conducted to determine if this new curriculum is effective. This analysis will show how this once prosperous program has proven to be so ineffective the D.A.R.E. program ranges from $1 billion to more than $2 billion annually. Despite questions about whether DARE works, it appears the cost will go up by millions even as the program is retooled. the following analysis would include a meta-analysis on why the program was so ineffective what could have been done.

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.

The DARE program was first conceived twenty years ago by the Los Angeles Police Department and has since been adopted by almost eighty percent of schools nationwide. It places uniformed offices in the schools to teach of the dangers of drugs and alcohol,however throughout the course of numerous studies it’s effectiveness has been called into question. For example in numerous studies it has been shown that the graduates of the program are not less likely to use drugs and alcohol then the student that had no experience with the program.However despite of its ineffectiveness it can’t be replaced due to the fact that any suggestion to replace

D-a-r-e, DAre, drug, abuse, resistance, education. D.a.r.e is a good, society helping, program that affects 5th graders for life, making them responsible and safe. When we do D.A.R.E we learn how to keep our community clean, safe, and friendly. Our D.A.R.E instructor Officer Hohman is a kind funny man that makes the whole class hungry by telling us what he cooks.

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.”

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