D.A.R.E. Effective or Not
D.A.R.E. otherwise known as Drug Abuse Resistance Education the program started in 1983 by Darryl Gates who was the chief of police in Las Angeles to teach kids to say no to drugs is under scrutiny. The program that has been taught to kids for eighteen years is under scrutiny because it is said to be less or just as effective as regular drug programs taught in health classes. The D.A.R.E. program reaches seventy-five percent of the school districts nationwide, and in 54 countries. D.A.R.E is taught to fifth and sixth graders by uniform police officers in a seventeen week program. Studies have been done over the past years to show that D.A.R.E. doesn't work. Plus a reform is going to occur to try and fix the problem. In September 1987 a study began by a widely respected drug abuse researcher from the University of Kentucky Dick Clayton. Mr. Clayton questioned that D.A.R.E. wasn't doing its job. Clayton and his team study involved school children from all thirty-one elementary schools in of Lexington, Kentucky. The schools were randomly assigned to receive D.A.R.E. program treatment or to receive no treatment at all(www.druglibrary.org,#2). Students in the study were tested before, and imm
5. www.apbnews.com/safetycenter/family/1999/08/03/dare0803_01.html;4/09/01. 6. www.time.com/time/education/article/0,8599,99564,00.html,4/09/01. IN September of 1994, RTI finished the lengthy report and turned it over to the NIJ. It concluded that the program had no effect on drug use even though it is loved by teachers and participants. RTI even went one step further and said that other programs work better. This got RTI in a lot of hot water. They had just done the one thing that D.A.R.E. didn't want to hear(www.druglibrary.org, #2). The report also said that D.A.R.E. is a failure to itself , and it takes money away from programs that actually work. In 1998 the U.S. Department of Education analyzed over ten thousand public school students, and found that other programs have a better out come then D.A.R.E.(www.druglibrary.org, #4). 1. DARE overhauls its drug program; Juvenile Justice Digest; Fairfax:Feb 28, 2001.Vol 29;Issue 4;page 2-3. D.A.R.E. a program that has been around for eighteen years really hasn't done anything it you talk to certain people. It you talk to the other side D.A.R.E. is the best thing since sliced bread. Now a new D.A.R.E. program is going to be tested and hopefully be more effective that the original that
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