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Anonymous wrote:I’m also curious about this. While the old DARE was found to be ineffective, the new DARE is evidence based and is very effective. Does anyone know what APS uses? My kids are so young but I’ve been alarmed about the increase in drug use in the county. Here is more about the new DARE:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-d-a-r-e-program-this-one-works/

PP here. I had the same thought but if you read the article you will see that the name is different.

If they've found something that works, it's a huge mistake to name it after the thing that doesn't.

Anonymous wrote:In Loudoun, all 5th graders still compete DARE. It’s lame.

Anonymous wrote:I’m also curious about this. While the old DARE was found to be ineffective, the new DARE is evidence based and is very effective. Does anyone know what APS uses? My kids are so young but I’ve been alarmed about the increase in drug use in the county. Here is more about the new DARE:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-d-a-r-e-program-this-one-works/

Anonymous wrote:I'm not kidding when I say this. In middle school we had some in-jail guy present to use from one of those two programs. He killed himself in prison two weeks later. So, totally effective program.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the DARE program ineffective? I have a 5 year old and 7 year old so I have very little experience with these issues.

They are ineffective, like abstinence programs, because they tell kids to say no to all the stuff they will all experiment with at some point.

For me, and yes I know I'm just one person, the DARE program and sex ed worked on me like a charm. And I'm glad they did. I grew up in Arlington in the 80s and 90s.

Congratulations. You are a rare, rare unicorn. Both approaches are well-documented failures.

Actually, no. It was effective for my friends as well. It was simply a program that worked well with our personalities, I guess.

Also, I remember the MTV special on ecstasy in the mid/late 90's. I was in college. They did brain scans of ecstasy users and their brains looked like swiss cheese. That was even more reinforcement for me. I was offered ecstasy and other drugs in college and I declined every time. Didn't give a crap what anyone thought. The only thing I did was smoke weed a handful of times.

I guess they should have made videos about the bad effects of weed, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the DARE program ineffective? I have a 5 year old and 7 year old so I have very little experience with these issues.

They are ineffective, like abstinence programs, because they tell kids to say no to all the stuff they will all experiment with at some point.

For me, and yes I know I'm just one person, the DARE program and sex ed worked on me like a charm. And I'm glad they did. I grew up in Arlington in the 80s and 90s.

Congratulations. You are a rare, rare unicorn. Both approaches are well-documented failures.

Actually, no. It was effective for my friends as well. It was simply a program that worked well with our personalities, I guess.

Also, I remember the MTV special on ecstasy in the mid/late 90's. I was in college. They did brain scans of ecstasy users and their brains looked like swiss cheese. That was even more reinforcement for me. I was offered ecstasy and other drugs in college and I declined every time. Didn't give a crap what anyone thought. The only thing I did was smoke weed a handful of times.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the DARE program ineffective? I have a 5 year old and 7 year old so I have very little experience with these issues.

They are ineffective, like abstinence programs, because they tell kids to say no to all the stuff they will all experiment with at some point.

For me, and yes I know I'm just one person, the DARE program and sex ed worked on me like a charm. And I'm glad they did. I grew up in Arlington in the 80s and 90s.

Congratulations. You are a rare, rare unicorn. Both approaches are well-documented failures.

Actually, no. It was effective for my friends as well. It was simply a program that worked well with our personalities, I guess.

Also, I remember the MTV special on ecstasy in the mid/late 90's. I was in college. They did brain scans of ecstasy users and their brains looked like swiss cheese. That was even more reinforcement for me. I was offered ecstasy and other drugs in college and I declined every time. Didn't give a crap what anyone thought. The only thing I did was smoke weed a handful of times.

If you smoked weed a handful of times I think the DARE program was basically a failure. You were supposed to just say no.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about other kids, but those programs work as intended on you! They scared me and I never have touched drugs.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the DARE program ineffective? I have a 5 year old and 7 year old so I have very little experience with these issues.

They are ineffective, like abstinence programs, because they tell kids to say no to all the stuff they will all experiment with at some point.

For me, and yes I know I'm just one person, the DARE program and sex ed worked on me like a charm. And I'm glad they did. I grew up in Arlington in the 80s and 90s.

Congratulations. You are a rare, rare unicorn. Both approaches are well-documented failures.

Actually, no. It was effective for my friends as well. It was simply a program that worked well with our personalities, I guess.

Also, I remember the MTV special on ecstasy in the mid/late 90's. I was in college. They did brain scans of ecstasy users and their brains looked like swiss cheese. That was even more reinforcement for me. I was offered ecstasy and other drugs in college and I declined every time. Didn't give a crap what anyone thought. The only thing I did was smoke weed a handful of times.