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D.A.R.E. program teaches kids how to recognize and resist the direct and subtle pressures that influence them to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs. Did you or anyone you know go through the D.A.R.E. curriculum? What do you have to say about the program? Would you like to see the D.A.R.E. program continued in our nation's schools? Why or why not?
(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) administers a school-based substance abuse, gang, and violence prevention program in 75% of U.S. school districts and in 48 countries (as of 2013); since 1983, 70,000 police officers have taught the D.A.R.E. program to over 200 million K-12 students worldwide -- approximately 114 million in the United States alone (ProCon, N.d.). The effectiveness of the program is a heavily debated subject. There is more evidence, peer-reviewed studies, which point to the program being effective in reducing the number of youth involved in drug use. However, there are also many studies that have found evidence to the contrary. In fact, some of the evidence even points to the possibility that the program might even be counter-productive in preventing youth from trying drugs. D.A.R.E.'s funding is enormous and the effectiveness of the program is a critical decision making point. This analysis will argue that the D.A.R.E. program is most likely not a justifiable use of the public resources. program ineffective, but it is actually counter-productive and can lead to higher drug usage rates among children and adolescence. If this were the case, then the U.S. government, through its various agencies, would actually be contributing to the drug problem with their attempts to intervene with children. The amount of funding that the program receives is astronomical by some accounts. After many requests, neither the government officials who hand out the money nor DARE executives themselves can put a definitive price tag on it, but estimates from several independent experts range from $1 billion to more than $2 billion annually (Riskind, 2002). With this kind of funding, the effectiveness of the program should be studied with considerable intensity.
Issues with the D.A.R.E. Program
One study that included nearly twenty thousand students from six metropolitan areas and were randomized to treatment (41) or control (42) conditions. The study focused on a program that was called Take Charge of Your Life (TCYL) and was administered by…
Works Cited
Gorman, D., & Huber, C. (2009). The Social Construction of "Evidence-Based" Drug Prevention Programs. Social Sciences, 396-414.
ProCon. (N.d.). Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids (K-12)? Retrieved from ProCon: http://dare.procon.org/
Riskind, J. (2002, June 30). Programs cost soars past $1 billion with little accounting. Retrieved from The Center for Educational Research & Development: http://www.cerd.org/press/d-a-r-e-s-programs-cost-soars-past-1-billion-with-little-accounting
Sloboda, Z., Stephens, R., Stephens, P., Grey, S., Teasdale, B., Hawthorne, R., . . . Marquette, J. (2009). The Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Study: A randomized field trial of a universal substance abuse prevention program. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 1-10. Retrieved from Drug and Alchohol Dependence.
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