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             With Drug Abuse Resistance Education also known as DARE being taught in eighty percent of school districts that reaches 26 million children and another 10 million in 53 other countries. Most kids will be taught in Dare in or around the 5th grade. Police officers teach the program in hourly sessions over 17 weeks. Students are using lectures, workbook exercises, question and answer sessions, audio-visual materials and role playing. You would expect that kids who have completed the program who are now in or past college to not be smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and quite often smoking pot. Most have not been convinced and experts are there to back this up. The DARE program that legislators and parents praise really doesn't work.
             As stated in the National Review by age 18, about 55 percent of students have tried some illegal drug and 26 percent of college kids say the have in the last month. So obviously the Dare program has not worked for everyone which you would expect. But a recent study at the University of Kentucky followed a group of people over 10 years after they went through the Dare program which was also published in National Review. It concluded that they were just as likely to use drugs as those who had little or no drug education. When this was brought to the attention of the executive director of Dare, who doesn't believe the claims of the University of Kentucky. He says the program has changed drastically over the years since the study had begun 10 years ago. Quoted "The effects dissipate somewhat, and that not a surprise .It shows there's a need for reinforcement, and we totally agree with that." Since News of this, Cities Such as Salt Lake, Minneapolis, Austin, Seattle, Omaha and others have dropped the program. The Salt Lake City Mayor Ross is quoted saying "I think your organization has been an absolute fraud on these people of the country. For you to continue taking precious drug-prevention dollars when such a serious and, in some instances, growing addiction problem is unconscionable.


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