Anonymous wrote:LCPS still does DARE in the 5th grade. I don't think there's any less drug use in Loudoun than anywhere without DARE.

The current version of DARE is not the same as the one from the 90s that was shown to be iatrogenic. Just FYI.

LCPS still does DARE in the 5th grade. I don't think there's any less drug use in Loudoun than anywhere without DARE.

Go listen to the “You’re Wrong about Podcast: Dare”

Two things can both be true- DARE is not an effective program AND we need more prevention efforts. Just because DARE was awful doesn’t mean all prevention should be abandoned.

Anonymous wrote: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

Yes we do need it. A bunch of common sense messages aren’t being taught at home or at school.
Personal finance stuff, don’t do drugs stuff, how to cook, basic tech Ed stuff, how to take notes, cursive, phonics, spelling, math facts.

Anonymous wrote:Except that DARE has been proven to make more kids try drugs than avoid them. Google it.

Hmmm - there is now a marijuana industry. A multi-billion (yes billion) dollar per year industry.

That happened through lobbying. Extremely lucrative lobbying.

This research you claim exists: the Google research?

- who funded it?

I think it was mostly that, like all school attempts to teach morality, it's completely hamfisted when published as a curriculum (and taught by cops! lol) an forced into a structured classroom environment. So kids ignored the lessons. But the sheltered kids learned about drugs they didn't know existed, so the idiot kids got a new dumb idea they didn't have before.

It’s the same reason just say no doesn’t work for sex, either.

For the most part it’s because the “consequences” introduced in the 90s version of DARE didn’t sound so bad to a crowd of teens whose frontal cortexes are still developing and don’t truly understand risk. It made kids more interested in trying things than less.

Anonymous wrote:Except that DARE has been proven to make more kids try drugs than avoid them. Google it.

I've heard the same thing. But, why? I don't get that at all?

Maybe my sister and brother-in-law should hold tours of the embalming room of their funeral home. And talk about all of the kids who have died from overdoses, including the teen who died because his pot was laced with fentanyl.

Except that DARE has been proven to make more kids try drugs than avoid them. Google it.

Just Say No worked for me.

Anonymous wrote: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

hahahaha. Sure, honey.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Different now.