Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
From: [b--l--n] at [aha.com]
Subject: DARE...NOT!!
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 18:41:27 GMT

Did anyone catch Peter Jennings on "World News" last night?  He did a 
segment on DARE! It started with a graphic that said "DARE...NOT!" This
is DARE's 10 year anniversary. 

He said that after 10 years of exsistence, and being taught in every state,
in over 5000(?) schools, that DARE is ineffective in assisting children
to refrain from using drugs and that there is NO evidence that it has
been at all successful in that portion of it's mission.  He did say that
the one thing it has improved is the relationship between children and
police.  Maria Falco came on and made some none too flattering comments
about DARE, then Dr. Lee Brown(yes, the new Drug Czar)came on to say that
his department was going to launch investigative research to determine
what programs, if any, are effective.

I wonder what ramifications this will have wrt DARE and what responses 
it will solicite from the drug warriors. 

More importantly, what drug education program format is going to help
prevent drug ABUSE, promote abstaination for children and responsible
USE for adults?  I believe we will need something more than what is
done in the Netherlands.  We need to come up with a comprehensive 
program outline, and start working on putting it together, as a challenge
to programs like DARE.  Brian, are you going to post more on the UMASS
CRC proposal? 
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