Analytical Report
by mario
abstract
Executive summary
A pie graph of drug usage in America
Sean Penn actor and director, greeting drug King pin El Chopo
Slogan for D.A.R.E.
Methods
Researching and finding evidence on D.A.R.E. was really easy to research the reason for this is DARE is a government sponsored program funded by tax payers and for this reason results are monitored throw-out the years .There was a lot of data collected over 32 year span. The data collected was from creditable sources like Department of education Federal Drug Agency The U.S. Surgeon generals office and The National Academy for Sciences The U.S. accounting offices these sites I used for fact finding information. All these organization's I brought up are part of the U.S. government and they bring theses numbers and data to congress for further review in which it becomes public records. DARE program is a government program. All the data collected was from government sites that oversaw the DARE program.
Results Findings
The results from the Analytical report where shocking a early study conducted in the 90s show that DARE has little or no effectiveness against the use of drugs in teenagers. In fact in has increased. Lilienfield, a professor of physiology at Emory University wrote a book on DARE and his, study showed the program increased your child's chances of drinking or using drugs. According to a study done in 2012 reviled that 60% of school districts have eliminated DARE program since the mid 2000s in 32 states where data was available. For the school districts to eliminate DARE in there school brings up the question, Do the administrators and teachers think it works? What is shown and proven to work is three programs approved by the Department of Education. What is effective is project alert program its designed for middle school students it teaches drug abstention norms reasons to obtain and resistance skills. Life skill training program teaches general personal and social skills specific resistance skills and normative information. Strethen famililes program is a substance abuse prevention program for substance abusing families.
Discussion
Conclusion
What I have reached and found was that the DARE had to many negative flaws to be apart of any school district. Although good in its intent to educate elementary children about the dangers of drugs and what happens in the real world, and what the police officer has seen and experienced in the force is a little bit over the top for kids 7 and 8 years of age.
What kids see and hear is absorbed into their developing brains and to have a bias police officer cop come in and expose children to street life with gangs and drugs is counter productive the cop never shows his face to the parents some say that's very controversial and study shows it doesn't work. Kids observing their Parents, friends and relatives legally abusing cannabis, and prescription drugs as well seeing the glorification of drug profits in the Media, DARE appears to be past its time in its potential effectiveness.