Drug Abuse Resistance Education

Officer Owen has taught us very many important things through the D.A.R.E. program. D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. This program is for students in 3rd, 4th, 6th, and other grades. During DARE lessons, a police officer comes to our school and presents to us in our classroom while we take notes in DARE workbooks. DARE usually happens once a week at our school. One topic we learn about in DARE is the problems: things like alcohol and cigarettes. Alcohol is a problem

these individuals were removed from the community and encouraged to move from the city. Who would have known one incident would open up a flood of opportunities? One by one the doors were opening. I was approached about teaching the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program in the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) district. I recognized, right away, this is what I was meant to do. When the previously mentioned school contacted me, it made me feel good to know the adults of the school

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 Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program also known, as the D.A.R.E program is a worldwide school-based program that helps reach out to children (elementary, middle, and high school) to prevent drug and violence abuse. This program does not discriminate in any case, therefore it consists of children all different colors, shapes, and sizes. Since drug and violence abuse was rising at incredible increments in the 1970’s and early 80’s, a Los Angeles Police Chief and the Los Angeles School District

defined by the “War on Drugs”. So, a question I had always wondered ever since I had begun D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) in elementary school was how can such a war be won? President Nixon declaration of war on drugs during his presidency in 1971, sparked mass incarcerations for those deemed unfit for society through the possession, use, or dealing of illegal substances such as heroin, cocaine, etc. Between 1980 and 1997, the number of people in prison for non- violent drug related offenses

war on drugs was declared in 1971 by President Richard Nixon and since that day over a trillion dollars have been spent on the prohibition of drugs in the United States (Branson, 2012). Yet, despite this excessive spending, the U.S. has the highest rates of illicit drug use in the world (Branson, 2012). Although much of this money has been spent on law enforcement agents and prison systems, some funds have been used to develop drug prevention programs. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program

policeman whom I admired so greatly and listened to with such interest. He made us sign a pledge not to use drugs and he would talk to us about how to resist peer pressure and live a drug-free life. This education program is called Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (D.A.R.E.) This program uses law enforcement officers to educate students from kindergarten to 12th grade about saying no to drugs and gang violence. It is the most widely used school based program in our country that focuses on helping

The purpose of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program was to provide an educational teaching tool that would encourage and provide resources to combat drug use, peer pressure and hopefully prevent early entry in the juvenile justice system. Furthermore, these refusal tactics were aiming to help kids say no to drugs. Also, another purpose of this program was to improve kids social skills and enhance their self-esteem in hopes that it would deter unhealthy behavior and actions. It's clear that

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (DARE) was created to be implemented in school systems in order to educate students about the dangers of drug and alcohol use and abuse. It was intended to help decrease the amount of young kids and teens that would experiment with drugs by educating them on the negative side effects of drug use. While the general public may feel that DARE is a great program, and the leaders that run it also believe in its powerfulness, there have been a lot of studies

Rydell and his colleagues found two programs that successfully reduced drug use rates. One of them is “Life Skills”, which was implemented in 1985 (Rydell, 23). Method of teaching was based on delivering information, promoting social skills and strengthening students’ resistant factors with the purpose to reduce drug use (22). Based on the results, which were observed in twelfth grade, the program was effective in reducing drug use in experimental group to one-third compare to control groups (23)