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Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E., is an American education program that tries to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior. It was founded in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint initiative of then- LAPD chief Daryl Gates and the Los Angeles Unified School District [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as a demand -side drug ...
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 ...
Consider the DARE anti-drug program. In the 1990s and early 2000s, research made it clear that DARE was “ineffective .” Yet COMBAT continued giving it money.
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.
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.
Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, in 1987 "Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
Costco did something this past week that is unusual for a company operating in the new Trump era — successfully push back against a challenge to its diversity efforts. It is not the only one ...
"Drug Abuse Resistance Education, better known as D.A.R.E. or DARE, is an international education program that seeks to promote use of illegal drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior." The article's opening sentence is grossly incorrect, as DARE does not promote any of these. Quite the opposite, in fact.