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...local level by communities that use a wide variety of funding methods. Also, you failed to include any reference to the many favorable D.A.R.E. evaluations and surveys that exist. And finally, your article said I met with Gilbert Botvin, the author and evaluator of the Life Skills Training antidrug program. In fact, no such meeting took place. GLENN LEVANT President and Founding Director D.A.R.E. America, Worldwide Los Angeles...
...does Molly shudder at the thought of eating eggs? Because several years ago, she saw the most famous antidrug commercial ever aired. The spot opens with a shot of a raw egg while a voice says, "This is your brain." The egg is then dumped onto a sizzling griddle while the voice says, "This is your brain on drugs." The commercial may well have put a number of teenagers off drugs. It put at least one six-year-old off eggs...
Given the possibility of unintended consequences, should Molly's parents let antidrug messages through? What about Martha Stewart? Would throwing a V-chip block on Martha Stewart be extreme? Maybe. But how would they feel if they arrived home one day and found Molly arranging fall foliage into a perfect centerpiece...
...fact, there is even worse news. Recent reports suggest that D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the antidrug program installed in nearly 80% of America's school districts, has failed to prove itself effective. Originated in Los Angeles in 1983 under the administration of Daryl F. Gates, who was then police chief, D.A.R.E. sends police into the schools to present 17 sessions on specific drugs, resisting peer pressure and like topics, sometimes using an array of "D.A.R.E.-ephernalia," from charts and bumper stickers to T shirts and talking robots...
...DRUGS] Would develop a National Drug Strategy with the goal of reducing teenage drug use by 50% in his first term, as well as 1,000 community-based antidrug coalitions. Sponsored bill with capital punishment for murders by drug kingpins...