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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

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