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[35] The article also stated, "Part of what makes DARE so popular is that participants get lots of freebies. There are fluorescent yellow pens with the DARE logo, tiny DARE dolls, bumper stickers, graduation certificates, DARE banners for school auditoriums, DARE rulers, pennants, DARE coloring books, and T-shirts for all DARE graduates." [35]
DARE to Say No posits that improving the public's perception of police was at least as important to DARE's mission as keeping kids off drugs. Police departments had to carefully consider whom ...
DARE has become a worldwide organization, with programs in schools across the globe. However, despite the program's wide use, peer-reviewed government-sponsored scientific research has discredited DARE's claimed effectiveness in reducing alcohol or drug use, and the program has seen a 73% reduction in taxpayer funding as a result.
Drug education is the planned provision of information, guidelines, resources, and skills relevant to living in a world where psychoactive substances are widely available and commonly used for a variety of both medical and non-medical purposes, some of which may lead to harms such as overdose, injury, infectious disease (such as HIV or hepatitis C), or addiction.
There’s no single explanation for why addiction treatment is mired in a kind of scientific dark age, why addicts are denied the help that modern medicine can offer. Family doctors tend to see addicts as a nuisance or a liability and don’t want them crowding their waiting rooms. In American culture, self-help runs deep.
Julianne Moore is speaking out after learning that President Donald Trump's administration has banned her children's book about self-acceptance in Pentagon-run schools worldwide. "It is a great ...
Billed as one of the world’s longest nude beaches at 7.8 kilometers (4.9 miles) long, Wreck Beach is actually a series of sandy strands, pebble flats and rocky outcrops wrapped around the end of ...
However, it had to wait until Italy entered World War II (June 10, 1940) for one of the world powers, the United Kingdom, to move to liberate Ethiopia. Italian troops were pushed back toward the center of the country, with the help of Ethiopian resistance , until the surrender was achieved with the honor of arms of Amedeo Duke of Aosta on the ...