Everybody knows what these names are and many have experienced them. These are just a few names for the many kinds of illegal drugs. If you thing drugs just appeared on the scene recently you dead wrong. Drugs have been here since the beginning of the very first civilizations. It caused the Opium War of ancient China and has also caused hundreds of millions of murders involving the transfer of drugs. Drugs are anything but bias hence they"re colorblind. They see no color nor age and think nothing about social status or where you live. You can go from a homeless man shooting up in the gutter of an alley to a corporate CEO living in the richest part town addicted to the same drug. Drugs have been here for hundreds of years and will really never be gone. Drugs are so destructful it not only affects the user, but also every person that individual knows and comes into contact with. But, the worst part about drugs is that the majority of drug users are the youth of America. That's when a program called DARE stepped in to educate the youth of America about the dangers of drug use. DARE is a program that doesn't wait until an individual is addicted by rather it teaches children at the youngest age to stay away from drugs. It's a corporation that doesn't work for the money but rather the pleasure of seeing results in the decrease of drug use in adolescences. The DARE program is not just something striving for an honorable goal, but a program that actually works. DARE has produce great results and will only get better in the years to come.
D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a program put together by certified people whom share the same goal. These people consist of law enforcement officers, teachers, students, and community members. Their goal is to bring the D.A.R.E. educational program into the classroom in order to help the youth be more aware of the pressures that influence them to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalants, or other drugs.