I don't understand the whole boredom thing. Is it really that hard for teens to entertain themselves without getting into or causing trouble?

Anonymous wrote:It really isn’t hard to predict who will and who will not use drugs. Typically a cry for help or attempt to mend trauma.

Kids that typically use are doing so out of desperation.

In my high school a lot of the drug use was out of boredom or to keep up with the cool rich sporty kids clique. Not the emo/Goth/write lots of depressed poetry crowd.

Drug education is a great idea. They’re already getting it in school health classes. They’re not getting DARE anymore because it was a monumental failure according to the research.

They should also be getting it from you at home. Harm reduction approaches work better than abstinence-only approaches.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh you sweet summer child, I hate to break it to you but DARE (now called LEAD) does not work.

Np- it worked for me. 🤷‍♀️

How did it not work and if it didn’t work for you are you a habitual drug user? If so, what type?

It worked for me as well, as I'm sure it had to for some kids. So I wouldn't say it was a total failure. I really don't understand kids who are taught how bad drugs are for you and do it anyway, especially kids that are so young

It really isn’t hard to predict who will and who will not use drugs. Typically a cry for help or attempt to mend trauma.

Kids that typically use are doing so out of desperation.

Anonymous wrote:Fact is:

- there is an epidemic, even crisis, of fentanyl use in the USA (thanks to China)

- kids all over the DC area are using. Narcan’s been used several times at DD’s Fairfax county high school; 6 kids in Arlington overdosed (OD’ed) and one died a few months back. It is in your kids school.

Why not bring back DARE ?

If it saves just one child’s life, isn’t that worth it ??!?

There's something called ROI. You don't relaunch an expensive program and pour times, energy, human and financial resources into something that saves only one child. You have to find the thing that helps the MOST children.

You clearly are not and should not be in charge at a management level at work if this is how your mind works and how you make decisions. "Let's waste millions of dollars! It saved one child! It's worth it!"

Fact is:

- there is an epidemic, even crisis, of fentanyl use in the USA (thanks to China)

- kids all over the DC area are using. Narcan’s been used several times at DD’s Fairfax county high school; 6 kids in Arlington overdosed (OD’ed) and one died a few months back. It is in your kids school.

Why not bring back DARE ?

If it saves just one child’s life, isn’t that worth it ??!?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh you sweet summer child, I hate to break it to you but DARE (now called LEAD) does not work.

Np- it worked for me. 🤷‍♀️

How did it not work and if it didn’t work for you are you a habitual drug user? If so, what type?

PP here. I am not a drug user in any way, shape, or form! I've never even tried anything other than alcohol. I'm just saying that based off of what I observed in quite a few of my own classmates who went through DARE in 6th grade who went on to smoke, drink, and experiment with drugs in high school. Additionally, I taught middle school and kids would be vaping in the bathrooms (and subsequently setting off the fire alarms) the same year they were attending DARE.

Education is super important. But in the ( research based) public health world DARE is a joke

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh you sweet summer child, I hate to break it to you but DARE (now called LEAD) does not work.

Np- it worked for me. 🤷‍♀️

How did it not work and if it didn’t work for you are you a habitual drug user? If so, what type?

There are data. There are also anecdotes. I'll leave it to you to ponder this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh you sweet summer child, I hate to break it to you but DARE (now called LEAD) does not work.

Np- it worked for me. 🤷‍♀️

How did it not work and if it didn’t work for you are you a habitual drug user? If so, what type?

By this logic, not doing anything "works" because some of those people don't become habitual drug users. Hell, I bet if we made drug use mandatory in seventh grade some of those kids would grow up to be clean and sober. Looking at one person isn't how we figure out what works.

Kids have drug education. They don't care. They think adults are making a big deal over nothing. Education alone isn't gonna stop kids from messing with drugs.

Consequences and serious deterrents are the only things that make teens do things differently. If the consequences are scary enough or if you put enough obstacles in their way to the point that the hassle no longer becomes worth it, then they'll move on and find something else.

Anonymous wrote:Oh you sweet summer child, I hate to break it to you but DARE (now called LEAD) does not work.

Np- it worked for me. 🤷‍♀️

How did it not work and if it didn’t work for you are you a habitual drug user? If so, what type?

Oh you sweet summer child, I hate to break it to you but DARE (now called LEAD) does not work.

We need to being back DARE class
The reason kids are vaping, getting high
Doing opioids is because they were not taught to say No