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Blast from the past.
AG Jeff Sessions wants to bring back anti-drug program D.A.R.E. - NY Daily News
I went through this program in the fifth grade. How effective is it?
Drug Abuse Resistance Education: The Effectiveness of DARE
Yup. These are the people running our country.
Oh, and I did drugs...so...can I be the poster child?
AG Jeff Sessions wants to bring back anti-drug program D.A.R.E. - NY Daily News
[FONT="]Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to bring back a once popular anti-drug program, despite it being deemed as ineffective in reducing substance abuse.[/FONT][FONT="]Sessions, speaking at the Drug Abuse Resistance Education training conference in North Texas Tuesday, stressed the program has helped prevent drug abuse among young adults.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“D.A.R.E. is, I think, as I indicated, the best remembered anti-drug program today,” Sessions said. “In recent years, people have not paid much attention to that message, but they are ready to hear it again.”[/FONT]
I went through this program in the fifth grade. How effective is it?
Drug Abuse Resistance Education: The Effectiveness of DARE
[FONT="]Scientific evaluation studies have consistently shown that DARE is ineffective in reducing the use of alcohol and drugs and is sometimes even counterproductive -- worse than doing nothing. That's the conclusion of the U.S. General Accounting Office, [/FONT]1[FONT="] the U.S. Surgeon General, [/FONT]2[FONT="] the National Academy of Sciences, [/FONT]3[FONT="] and the U.S. Department of Education, [/FONT]4[FONT="] among many others. [/FONT]5
Yup. These are the people running our country.
Oh, and I did drugs...so...can I be the poster child?