...More and more of America’s youth are starting to use drugs than usual. To prevent this, there are many substance abuse prevention programs that are in place to try and prevent this before it even begins. Three programs were examined for this research paper. Those programs are DARE, Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, and SADD. In this paper, the mission, funding and effectiveness of each program will be discussed. DARE DARE, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, is a program created to bring awareness of drug abuse with youth in communities. The mission of this program is to teach kids how to make the right decisions and live a drug free, healthy life. “D.A.R.E. is the national symbol for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program which, in partnership with police officers, parents and schools is in use throughout the United States.”(DARE.org). The DARE program is funded by federal government resources and private contributors. A few studies were conducted on the effectiveness of this program. Dr. Ismail Sahin conducted an effective DARE program. “This study has showed that while some research studies found a positive effect of the DARE program, some studies found no significant impact at all” (Sahin 2014). There were several reason in this study why the DARE program was effective and ineffective in some areas. One reason in particular stood out the most. “One reason for this failure is importing and implementing the same DARE program without taking into consideration the specific...
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...During the 1980’s the war on drugs hit hard on the United States. The D.A.R.E program which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education was established to instill the proper tools of living a substance free life and not caving in to peer pressure which many children are faced with. The D.A.R.E program was significant in building social skills and boosting the self-esteem of schoolchildren. D.A.R.E was established in 1983 as a collaborative venture between the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles School District. During 1996, U.S. Congress approved the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to endorse drug abuse training and prevention programs. Approximately 75% of school districts were utilizing the programs as well as 43 countries worldwide had also employed the D.A.R.E program. According to Rosie Cima (2015), D.A.R.E was originally intended for elementary school students, especially those entering the fifth and sixth grade. Eventually, it was integrated into the junior high schools as well as high schools. The D.A.R.E program was dedicated on reinforcing the ability teens and children had in challenging the urge to participate in substance abuse due to experimentation or peer pressure. According to Donna S. Kochis (1995), there was controversy brewing amongst scientific research and the D.A.R.E. program. The D.A.R.E program was doing everything possible to openly combat and divert the scientific cynics, they also attempted to hush opponents...
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...The main reasons that the DARE program did not work The DARE program was developed to help the teenagers to avoid taking drugs. The program DARE stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, which was created in 1983 by the Los Angeles Police Department. The DARE program suggested that drugs awareness should be given to teens across the United States in the educational institutions. The program was implemented in full swing but it never worked as it never produced the desired results. The major reasons for the failure of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program were that the program lacked several of the key element which are otherwise needed for a successful program. It did not have the substantial amount of sessions which provided interaction...
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...For nearly twenty years the so called “experts” have been coming to schools and lecturing children about the problems contributed to drug use. A majority of students in the United States have had to sit through class after class of a police officer telling them to be a “skipping cd” and to “just say no.” Although the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is extremely popular, it is ineffective and sometimes even counterproductive. D.A.R.E. and other drug education programs were introduced as a solution for the perceived drug abuse problems. Instead these programs have powered children’s interest in drugs. By telling a child something is off limits, this automatically sparks their interest: The forbidden fruit syndrome. D.A.R.E. is a publicly funded program which enlists law enforcement officials to help children resist drugs and gangs by targeting at risk youths. D.A.R.E. has uniformed police officers go into schools and warn students about the dangers of drugs. In most cases, the officers go to the classes once a week, for about 45-60 minutes (Scientific American), for several months. D.A.R.E. is immensely popular, it has been put in place in 75 percent (SA) of U.S. school districts and 43 countries. Even here in Middletown I constantly see D.A.R.E. bumper stickers, tee shirts, and police cars with the D.A.R.E. logo plastered on it. D.A.R.E. has become an extremely popular and recognizable fixture in many U.S. communities. Although D.A.R.E has claimed short...
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...York Characteristics of At-Risk Students The category of at-risk students I have chosen to write about is the risk of drugs and alcohol with students. It seems that students may be more at risk of having a problem with or using drugs and alcohol if they are a child of low socioeconomic status, in poverty, have family instability, and/or academic problems at school. Studies have shown that after an almost twenty year drop in the amount of drugs and alcohol being used by students, they are both on the rise again. Some people may think that this is just a problem for major cities but this could not be further from the truth. This problem is actually most acute in rural areas. I actually have seen this first hand in the town where I come from. I graduated high school in 1995 and most of my friends were taking drugs and drinking alcohol on a regular basis throughout all of my high school years. I never did drugs but did drink alcohol with them on the weekends, and although this never turned into a problem for me, I shouldn’t have been drinking that young and bad things could have happened because of it. Some people say that teens may be getting mixed messages, with parents and other’s telling these students that it is bad for you but seeing a lot of it glorified through media. Just trying drugs can turn into a big problem because it can turn into drug dependency, dropping out of school, poor health, suicide, accidents, and failing to develop healthy mechanisms for coping...
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...D.A.R.E Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E), is a program that was established to help fight against drugs in this country and was taught by uniformed officers that received training in talking to children in our schools to help educate them into resisting drug use. For this program covers 80% of the school districts in the United States, in fifty four countries, and has taught up to 36,000,000 children each year, so it is very important that a program of this magnitude works in order to combat against the use of drugs and alcohol. However, over a period of ten years a study was conducted on how the D.A.R.E program effect had on our children when they first went through the program at age eight to twelve years of age and now at the age of eighteen to twenty. It was found that after tracking one 1,000 students that had received the program, it show that it had limited effect on their attitude towards drugs. Furthermore, their findings found that there was no additional drug usage or during a follow-up reviews. It was further found that children will not engage in drug usage overall, however there will be some that will succumb to peer pressure to engage into drug activate as a whole. As in all studies, you can show that a program has promise or not. As in Texas the program there show that there was a 29% increase in drug usage, with a 34% increase in children using tobacco products as well that was involved in the D.A.R.E program. Due to the poor response of the program...
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...Did you know that there are 200 known chemicals in one cigarette? I learned that from D.A.R.E. In this essay I will talk about what I learned, how to make good decisions, and how I will use them in the future. Also dare has been amazing, I have learned so much from officer Trapp. He has taught me about what drugs do to you and what cigarettes do. It has been amazing Now I’m going to talk about what I learned. I learned about the chemicals in a cigarette, and what they do. I learned about drugs, and I learned how to use the D.A.R.E decision making model. The decision making model is used to teach kids like me how make a good decision, and I will talk more about that in the next paragraph. Do you know how to make a good decision if you don’t...
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...Drug abuse is probably one of the most relevant social problems faced by the United States considering that a study recently published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that one fourth of the American citizens consume illicit drugs on a regular basis (NIDA, 2013). After alcohol, the most commonly consumed drugs are marijuana, pain relievers like morphine or vicodine, cocaine, heroin, stimulants, tranquilizers, hallucinogens, inhalants and sedatives. In this regard, the data reported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse point towards more than 4 million American citizens meeting the criteria of marijuana abuse, 1.9 million inappropriately using pain relievers and 0.9 million Americans abusing of cocaine (Figure 1, NIDA, 2015)...
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...Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” - Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. He was President from 1981 to 1989. He played a major role in ending the Cold war. He strengthened the military. To defeat the Communists he used force where as many former presidents had used appeasement. One of his speeches helped influence the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Through his domestic affairs he stimulated the economy. He enacted many tax and budget cuts. Unemployment also dropped. Both Ronald and Nancy Reagan started an anti-drug campaign. This led Ronald Reagan to pass an act with tight enforcement on drug laws that backfired. The...
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...way, and causes a lot of problems. There is no good evidence that prohibition decreases drug use, and there are several theories that suggest prohibition might actually increase drug use (i.e. the "forbidden fruit" effect, and easier accessibility for youth). One unintended effect of marijuana prohibition is that marijuana is very popular in American high schools. Why? Because it is available. You don't have to be 21 to buy marijuana -- marijuana dealers usually don't care how old you are as long as you have money. It is actually easier for many high school students to obtain marijuana than it is for them to obtain alcohol, because alcohol is legal and therefore regulated to keep it away from kids. If our goal is to reduce drug consumption, then we should focus on open and honest programs to educate youth, regulation to keep drugs away from kids, and treatment programs for people with drug problems. But the current prohibition scheme does not allow such reasonable approaches to marijuana; instead we are stuck with 'DARE' police officers spreading lies about drugs in schools, and policies that result in jail time rather than treatment for people with drug problems. We tried prohibition with alcohol, and that failed miserably. We should be able to learn our lesson and stop repeating the same mistake. SUMMARY: Prohibition does not work. Education and treatment are better ways to address the drug...
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...Introduction Marijuana is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hem plant (Dudley, 1999). Marijuana contains an active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol, known as THC. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Marijuana is a schedule I substance. Schedule I means that marijuana has a high potential for abuse. It is illegal to buy, sell, grow, or possess marijuana in the United States. Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States. Marijuana is derived from the plant Cannabis. War on Drugs Marijuana prohibition comprises a large part of the federal government’s War on Drug’s. Law enforcement officials made 600,000 marijuana-related arrests in 1995 (Gerdes, 2002). The criminal prohibition of marijuana, this represents an extraordinary degree of government intrusion into the private, personal lives of those adults who choose to use it. People convicted of marijuana offenses face penalties ranging from probation to life imprisonment, plus fines and forfeiture of property. The government spends millions of dollars annually on preventative programs such as Dare Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), in which local police officers visit schools to teach young people to refrain from trying marijuana and other drugs. Marijuana Medical Uses Despite federal laws prohibiting marijuana in 1996, California and Arizona passed state initiatives legalizing marijuana for medical use by patients...
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...Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com CURRENT AFFAIRS – FREQUENTLY ASKED 1. NATIONAL 1. New Govt. schemes 2. Newly constituted committees on national issues. 3. Newly appointed heads of important offices 4. Inter state disputes 5. Important places in news 2. BILATERAL 1. Recent trade pacts like FTA, trade targets, items of trade, grouping in WTO 2. Bilateral defence deals and military exercises. 3. Bilateral visits by heads of nations 4. Bilateral summits (Place, theme to summit, issues discussed in summit) 5. Bilateral, trilateral and regional forums Eg : - IBSA, SAARC 3. ECONOMICS 1. RBI – monetary policy changes – CRR, Bank Rate, Forex reserves, inflation rate etc 2. Finance Ministry – Fiscal policy-tax rates, tax holidays, committees appointed to review exciting tax structures. 3. CSO – National income, Per capita income, GDP growth rate, Base year, Poverty rate etc. 4. Central Govt. schemes of Employment Generation (NREGP), Social welfare (NOAP, ICDS, MDMS), Poverty eradication (AAY), Infrastructure development (NURM, NHDP)/ 5. SEBI – Stock exchanges, Stock indexes, disinvestments, scams, committees 6. TRADE- Export items, Import items, export targets of various sector, trade pacts 7. PLANNING – Plan period, GDP target, priorities, sectoral allocations 8. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WTO – Summits, discussed issues, groupings formed for trade dialogue. IMF, WB - development agenda, loans and grants UNDP – Theme, HDR, HDI rankings, ILO, UNCTAD...
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...Bree Scarboro An Evening of Indian Insight and Encouragement A Response to Poetry Reading by Susan Deer Cloud Professor Diana, English 328 November 21, 2011 Susan Deer Cloud is a Native American literature writer of Blackfoot, Mohawk, and Seneca heritage, and considers the very act of writing ceremonial. She was born and grew up in the Catskill Mountains and the area is inspiration for her writing. She has earned her B.A. in General Literature & Creative Writing and M.A. in English Literature & Creative Writing from Binghamton University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has taught as a lecturer at Binghamton University, Broome Community College, and Holyoke Community College. She has authored five books for which she has won competitions and received various awards—including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (most recent in March of 2011), as well as grants and honorable mentions for her work. Susan Deer Cloud’s artistic goal is “getting out the voices of sister and brother writers (especially indigenous writers)” (Susan Deer Cloud). During our class visit with Susan Deer Cloud and at her poetry reading on November 7, she mentioned Akwe:kon which is a Mohawk word meaning, "all of us." She says that “we are all a part of this and are here together sending out energy and when we speak our breath mingles with other people's breath and other voices” (Deer Cloud...
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...The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was one of the few works of art in American history to have a massive and important impact on society. Sinclair was part of an era when people witnessed all that was wrong and corrupt in business and politics, they stood up against it. The Jungle was criticizing the wage of the working people. Upton Sinclair revels intense representations of the shocking lack of hygiene involved in the labor field such as the meatpacking industry in Chicago. After this was exposed it resulted in public outrage to the point where the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act was passed by congress. The Jungle became part of the era when the industry was quickly progressing and millions of immigrants moved to the...
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...Steven Meginley May 18 2010 Illegal and legal drugs have affected millions of life’s and families all over the world but with in this global conflict the government is really doing more hurt then help. Think about this California makes $14 billion a year in taxes from growth and medicinal use of marijuana this is their number one cash crop. So why isn’t every nation boosting their economy like this? They are spending more money to try and keep it out then they would make. The government lets cops bust open doors break down walls shatter windows flip tables bed ect. And take down and handcuff any one in the presents of a gram or more of marijuana medicinal or not. This plant has been in mankind since the start. Hemp the natural plant that marijuana buds from makes stronger thread for cloths and more durable paper also, burns slower then wood but the lumber companies wouldn’t want this to get out. Smoking marijuana pot is about as dangerous for a fit person as exercise. 400,000 people die yearly from tobacco products and 100,000 die from alcohol a year. No one in history has died from over dose of THC the chemical in marijuana that gives the high Legalization of drugs would take criminals and hard drugs off the corner so that our children of the world couldn’t obtain and get hooked at such a young age. Marijuana is so embraced in the media that more and more people are accepting it as normal or acceptable. Marijuana use helps many factors including stress, depression and...
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