I knew it! DARE a bust

[Dagnabit]

<a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/02/16/dare/index.html">This Salon article</a> says that DARE is actually counter-productive, that kids who go through the program are MORE likely to do drugs than kids who don't, and that they are looking into changing it. Critics say they aren't likely to change the program enough to make a difference.

So it turns out that a bunch of overly-simplistic homilies, casual lies, and suggestions to rat on your own parents don't convince kids to stay away from drugs. Turns out that people in the prevention community have known for a long time that DARE doesn't work and it was just politically unpopular to de-fund it.