When was dare started

Get smart. Sign up for our email newsletter. Sign Up. Support science journalism. Knowledge awaits. See Subscription Options Already a subscriber? Create Account See Subscription Options. Continue reading with a Scientific American subscription. Critics argue that the DARE program was not effective because it was delivered by policemen rather than addiction prevention specialists. The DARE workshops mainly involved police officers entering classrooms and teaching students about the kinds of drugs they might encounter and how to say no.

The police force employs a punitive, zero-tolerance approach to drugs rather than adopting a rehabilitative view. Beyond this, there will always be an element of any classroom that views the police as an oppositional force. Not everyone views the police in a positive light. The program encouraged students to anonymously report back on any drugs they encountered at home or school via a box in the classroom.

Vice magazine conducted a series of interviews with people suffering from substance use disorder who had received DARE education. The DARE education had faded in my memory by then. This program is more interactive based on the criticism that DARE workshops just consisted of police officers standing up and talking. Specialists in addiction treatment advise that the best way to prevent drug use is through cognitive behavioral therapy CBT. Then, in , another government organization evaluated DARE.

This time, it was the Government Accountability Office GAO -- a federal watchdog on government spending of taxpayer money. DARE was funded with federal, state, and local taxes. GAO selected six long-term evaluations for review -- studies that looked at kids 5 to 10 years after the DARE program and evaluated its effect.

Rocky Anderson. The DARE money finally started to ebb. It might have been too little, too late. It plunged into debt in and Their antidrug attitudes were also more likely to stick over time. After two and a half decades of research, and the threat of extinction by defunding, DARE is finally friends with science.

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