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Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Program Flawed

Common Sense for Drug Policy: DARE Program Flawed

GAO: Research Shows That DARE Is A Failure, Alternative Prevention Programs Do Exist

The General Accounting Office released a review of current research regarding alcohol and other drug abuse prevention programs, particularly DARE, on Jan. 16, 2003. The review, Youth Illicit Drug Use Prevention: DARE Long-Term Evaluations and Federal Efforts to Identify Effective Programs, GAO-03-172R, was prepared in response to a request from Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL).

The GAO report found that "In brief, the six long-term evaluations of the DARE elementary school curriculum that we reviewed found no significant differences in illicit drug use between students who received DARE in the fifth or sixth grade (the intervention group) and students who did not )the control group). Three of the evaluations reported that the control groups of students were provided other drug use prevention education. All of the evaluations suggested that DARE had no statistically significant long-term effect on preventing youth illicit drug use. Of the six evaluations we reviewed, five also reported on students' attitudes toward illicit drug use and resistance to peer pressure and found no significant differences between the intervention and control groups over the long term. Two of these evaluations found that the DARE students showed stronger negative attitudes about illicit drug use and improved social skills about illicit drug use about 1 year after receiving the program. These positive effects diminished over time."
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Anonymous said…
I'm certainly not a pro DARE person. I work in drug education myself as an educator. What is often not reported in any review of DARE's efficacy is the positive relationship DARE fosters between law enforcement and students. DARE is popular with parents and in communities where funding is short, DARE is often the only drug education kids receive.
12/10/2006 8:08 AM
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