1. D.A.R.E.
DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. ... DARE operates in 80 percent of all U.S. schools districts and reaches more than 36 millions students (DARE 2003). ... By the late 1990s, there can be no doubt that DARE stood alongside Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) as one of the premier problem-oriented social movements of its time. ... In 1984, the LAPD was spending over $5 Million per year DARE in Los Angeles Schools (Lundman 2001). ... Using pre-test and post-test questionnaires of 1,771 fifth gra...
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