D.A.R.E Was Not as Effective as It Seemed to be at the Time

1. There Are Still More Effective Programs Anti-Drug Programs

Even though D.A.R.E. is still taught in many schools, there are still a lot of anti-drug programs that are proven more effective. The Drug Strategies Group reviewed and rated 46 total drug prevention educational programs, rating only 6 of them with A’s for overall program quality.

The six programs were: The Michigan Model (K-8), Life Skills Training (6-8 or 7-9), Project ALERT (6&7 or 7&8), Project Northland (6-8), and Students Taught Awareness and Resistance (Star – 5-8).

Where did we get this stuff? Here are our sources:

“D.A.R.E.’s Story as a Leader in Drug Prevention Education.” D.A.R.E. America.

“A brief history of DARE, the anti-drug program Jeff Sessions wants to revive.” Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post. July 2017.

“Proclamation 5854—National D.A.R.E. Day, 1988” Ronald Reagan, Presidency Documents. September 1988.

“STUDIES FIND DRUG PROGRAM NOT EFFECTIVE” Dennis Cauchon, Schaffer Drug Library. October 1993.

“D.A.R.E., America’s Most Famous Anti-Drug Program, Will No Longer Talk to 10- and 11-Year-Old Children About Marijuana” Mike Riggs, Reason. December 2012.

“Statistics on Addiction in America” Addiction center.

“Truth or DARE: An Examination of the Efficacy of the DARE School Drug Prevention Program” Sabrina Qiao, Sabrina Qiao’s Civic Issues Blog.

Also Read: America’s Long and Costly War on Drugs