In 1984, the LAPD was spending over $5 Million per year DARE in Los Angeles Schools (Lundman 2001). ... In Houston, TX, a controlled study of the DARE program in the schools has found little evidence to suggest that the curriculum's primary goals, drug abuse and violence reduction and 5 prevention, are being reached at a significant level (Society 1999). ...
Zero tolerance meant: (1) that if there were no drug abusers there would be no drug problem, (2) that the market for drugs is created not only by availability, but by demand, (3) that drug abuse starts as a willful act, (4) that the perception that drug users are powerless to act against the drug availability and peer pressure is an erroneous one, (5) that most illegal drug users can choose to their behaviors and must be held responsible if they do not, (6) that individual freedom does not include the right to self and societal destruction, (7) that public tolerance for drug abuse must be redu...
"Hey let me bum a cigarette. Hey share the wealth, I need more alcohol." Teens today are having many problems dealing with drugs. Teenagers get influence by ads in magazines, ads on TV, people pressuring them, and from everyday life. Drugs and Alcohol does not help anything in the world. When teens ...
