You might be surprised to learn this, but the contemporary version of D.A.R.E. back to classrooms, but the program will likely be very different from its previous incarnation. When Jeff Sessions announced that he would like to revitalize D.A.R.E., reporters and pundits alike seemed troubled: Does Sessions want to return to implementing a verifiably ineffective program? In his announcement, Sessions seemed to paint a picture of the early glory days of D.A.R.E., and those in the media who have been covering and writing about the announcement are justifiably concerned.īut given the history of D.A.R.E., it’s hard to imagine that we’ll be seeing “Just say no” redux anytime soon. Yet these changes appeared unconvincing and failed to bring D.A.R.E. developers revised the program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, attempting to bring the program in line with scientific research and theories on youth drug use prevention. has fallen from grace and is no longer as central to U.S. publicity materials, the program is still in place in approximately 75 percent of American school districts, but D.A.R.E. program fell short, its failure was acknowledged. Mark Sebastian, CC BY-SA Bringing back D.A.R.E. must contend with a popular culture that often glamorizes drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Substance abuse prevention programs like D.A.R.E. Part of the difficulty with any substance use prevention program is that experimentation and risk-taking are part of youth development, and providing students with more elaborate information about the effects of different substances could pique their interest even more, particularly if the information is not presented appropriately. fail to prevent students from using drugs, in some cases it actually increased the likelihood that students would use drugs. was a failure: Studies of the program found that not only did D.A.R.E. failedīy now, it’s fairly well-known that the first version of D.A.R.E. developers and interventionists knew they were laboring against peer pressure and a popular culture that glorified recreational drug use.
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Of course, anyone who has ever been a parent knows that kids already know full well how to say “no.” But D.A.R.E. was a program that rested on the premise of training kids how to say “no.” seemed to rely on just a few key points: 1) drugs are bad 2) if kids knew how bad drugs were, they would never choose to use them and 3) this would be especially true if police officers were the ones telling kids about drugs. The goal was to help youth see that the costs of drug use far outweighed any rewards, and could be avoided by refusing to use drugs. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program, when it was initiated in 1983. It was also the central concept of the D.A.R.E. originally operated on the premise of teaching kids to simply ‘say no’ to drugs.
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