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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of drugs have been legalized.  I think the school board members would prefer saying yes to drugs.[/quote]

It's depressing how people are mocking this (not referring to you PP but for people who think that teaching kids to say no to drugs is a joke). DH just got back from trip in Washington where he met with schools, substance abuse counselors/clinics and law enforcement. So many kids are hooked on hard drugs and many of them are in elementary school. Washington, like many states on the west coast legalized hard drugs and the result has been an astronomical increase in kids hooked on drugs. Progressives (and I am a progressive just not when it comes to legalization) keep mentioning Portugal as a model. But Portugal never legalized drugs, it decriminalized them. It also mandates treatment. Drug legalization advocates in the United States don't believe in mandated treatment at all. The result is an inhumane society where people, including kids are addicts and can't get out of the addiction cycle. People can administer Narcan all they want (and don't get me wrong, Narcan saves lives) but eventually most of these addicts will end up dead if they don't stop doing drugs. Yes I get it the liberal thing is to talk about individual choice and personal liberty, but are you really free if you are an addict?  DARE didn't work but there are other programs that do. Why is there no push to implement these programs in schools? Why is it all about Narcan? Narcan saves lives of course but its not the solution. What a depressing state of affairs.

Marijuana is no joke either. It has become more addictive because of the astronomical THC levels and kids are getting addicted. This NYT article covers this pretty well https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/well/mind/teens-thc-cannabis.html

But no one cares about our kids.  It's weird how people are so gung ho about restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes because they are attractive to kids but don't give a sh*t about THC gummies. What a disgusting world we live in. [/quote]

People aren’t mocking efforts to reduce drug use among young people, they are mocking the specific DARE program, because it doesn’t work, as the research shows. I’m a teacher who has had to sit through these lessons and there is a lot of inadvertent glamorization of drugs and alcohol in it (“Let’s list all the kinds of alcohol you know!”—and the kids who know the most come off as “cooler” to the other kids.) and much of the student participation is very unengaged.

You want to know what would be effective? More social workers in schools to provide needed support to the families of kids whose lives are so rough they are turning to drugs at 10, 12, 14 years. We added a full-time SW this year and it’s been amazing but we can see how much more need there is.[/quote]

Yes of course we need more social workers. But we also need programs teaching kids how to say no to drugs implemented in schools. The old DARE program didn’t work but this one does: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-d-a-r-e-program-this-one-works/[/quote]

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