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Lesson 6-4: DARE

Lesson 6-4: DARE. Is DARE an effective program?. National Drug Control Strategy. Goal 1 : Educate And Enable America's Youth To Reject Illegal Drugs As Well As Alcohol And Tobacco. Goal 2 : Increase The Safety Of America's Citizens By Substantially Reducing Drug-.

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Lesson 6-4: DARE

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  1. Lesson 6-4:DARE

  2. Is DARE an effective program? National Drug Control Strategy Goal 1: Educate And Enable America's Youth To Reject Illegal Drugs As Well As Alcohol And Tobacco. Goal 2: Increase The Safety Of America's Citizens By Substantially Reducing Drug- Related Crime And Violence. Goal 3: Reduce Health And Social Costs To The Public Of Illegal Drug Use. Goal 4: Shield America's Air, Land, And Sea Frontiers From The Drug Threat. Goal 5: Break Foreign And Domestic Drug Sources Of Supply.

  3. Is DARE an effective program? “We’ve got one priority, it’s goal one. It says if you want to work on the drug issue, you’ve got to go to the 39 million kids who are aged 10 and below and influence their attitudes to cause them to reject smoking cigarettes or abusing illegal drugs until they’re 20 because if they don’t use when they’re young, the odds that they will develop abuse and addiction problems or even use after that are greatly reduced.” General Barry McCaffrey, Office of National Drug Control Policy

  4. Is DARE an effective program? • Primary Prevention • Secondary Prevention • Tertiary Prevention

  5. Is DARE an effective program? My brother graduated from a DARE program when he was in elementary school. Now that he’s a junior in high school, he hasn’t touched drugs. Perspectives on Drugs Student

  6. Is DARE an effective program? When I was in 5th grade, we had the DARE program. At that time I said I would never drink, smoke, or do any drugs. However, when I got to high school, I became curious and decided to try some drugs. Perspectives on Drugs Student

  7. Is DARE an effective program? Thank God I never had to be subjected to DARE. Even the name of the program stinks, DARE. Think about this, what do children do when you dare them?  Perspectives on Drugs Student

  8. Is DARE an effective program? Safe and Drug Free Schools http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/

  9. Is DARE an effective program? What should a drug education program accomplish? How would we know if we accomplished it?

  10. Don’t You DARE

  11. Is DARE an effective program? Give them pre-test as well (as a post-test) to see if they learned anything.  Perspectives on Drugs Student

  12. No Drugs Drugs No Drugs Is DARE an effective program? No Drugs Randomized Trial DARE Drugs Make and Compare Rates Random Assignment No DARE Time

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  16. No Drugs Drugs No Drugs Is DARE an effective program? No Drugs Randomized Trial DARE Drugs Make and Compare Rates Random Assignment No DARE Time

  17. Drugs DARE No Drugs No Drugs Drugs No Drugs DARE Other X Random Assignment Drugs Other No Drugs Drugs None No Drugs Is DARE an effective program? Make and Compare Rates Time

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  26. Is DARE an effective program? Facts and Assumptions $3,000,000 / 250,000 students = $12 per student $13,000 incarceration or supervision = $16,500 $3,500 out patient treatment If DARE diverts only 1 in 1,000 from adult conviction and treatment 250 diversions x $16,500 = $4,125,000 $4,125,000 / $3,000,000 = $1.38

  27. Is DARE an effective program? Not if …. … if this program helps only one person, it’s worth it, that is one child we just saved.  Perspectives on Drugs Student

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  29. No Drugs Drugs No Drugs Is DARE an effective program? 6 cities and suburbs No Drugs 80 High Schools 176 Middle Schools New DARE 50,000 Drugs Make and Compare Rates ? Random Assignment Baltimore New York Houston Denver San Francisco Los Angeles Old DARE Time

  30. Life Skills Training Promoting Health and Personal Development Teacher’s Manual for Middle / Junior High School Gilbert J. Botvin, Ph.D.

  31. Prevention Principles 3. Prevention programs should include skills to resist drugs when offered, strengthen personal commitments against drug use, and increase social competency, in conjunc- tion with reinforcement of attitudes against drug use.

  32. Prevention Principles 4. Prevention programs for adolescents should include interactive methods, such as peer discussion groups, rather than didactic teaching techniques alone.

  33. Life Skills Training Units • Self-Image and Self-Improvement • Decision-Making • Smoking: Myths and Realities • Smoking and Biofeedback • Alcohol: Myths and Realities • Marijuana: Myths and Realities • Advertising • Coping with Anxiety • Communications Skills • Social Skills (A) • Social Skills (B) • Assertiveness

  34. Long-Term Follow-Up Results of a Randomized Drug Abuse Prevention Trial in a White Middle-Class Population Gilbert J. Botvin, Ph.D., et al. Journal of the American Medical Association, April 12, 1995

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