From: [w--li--h] at [ix.netcom.com](William House)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,uk.legal,uk.politics
Subject: DARE = Big Business (Was: Drug Education Does Not Prevent Use
Date: 6 Apr 1996 12:30:13 GMT

From The 1994 Project Censored Yearbook 
by Carl Jensen and Project Censored.


DARE groups all over the country have been proven to be ineffective.
Studies conducted at more than 100 schools in the U.S. and Canada have
produced the same results: "[There were] no statistically significant
differences between experimental groups and control groups in the
percentage of new users of ...  cigarettes, smokeless tobacco,
alcohol, marijuana." A Canadian government study found that "DARE had
no significant effect on students' use of any of the substances
measured" (including tobacco, beer, soda, marijuana, acid, Valium,
wine, aspirin, uppers, downers, heroin, crack, cocaine, liquor, candy,
glue, and PCP.

Gilbert Botvin of the Institute for Prevention at Cornell University
Medical Center flatly stated, "It's well-established that DARE doesn't
work."  A national conference on schools and drug prevention, held at
UC-San Diego, in March 1993, concluded:  "A review of a number of DARE
evaluations has found that the program had little or no effect on the
use of drugs by students."  An analysis of eight validated studies
found that DARE had a substantial effect on knowledge about drugs, a
modest effect on social skills, and a more limited effect on self-
esteem and children's attitudes toward law enforcement.  But the
analysis concluded, DARE's affect on students' actual drug-use was
"limited to essentially non-existent."

William Hansen, of the Wake Forest University Medical School in
Winston Salem, NC, helped design the original DARE program in 1983.
Hansen told the group, "I think the program should be entirely
scrapped and re-developed anew."  The conference also found:
"Publishing and marketing anti-drug curriculum materials have become
big business, and some of the best selling programs have turned out to
have the least impressive results when their outcomes are given an
objective evaluation."

Seek Peace,
Not War.

Matthew   5:9
Blessed [are] the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God.

It's not the Fear of God that's missing today,
It's the Love of God that we should display more often.

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http://www.paranoia.com/drugs/
http://hyperreal.com/drugs/

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