The reasons for D.A.R.E.'s failure are summed up by the words of the psychologist William Colson, who in '98 argued that D.A.R.E.
The program doesn't work, and in fact is counterproductive, leading to higher drug use among high school students who went through it compared to students who did not. (Maybe they shouldn't have told 5th graders that hallucinogens exist.)Įvery subsequent study on the effectiveness of D.A.R.E., including a major 10-year investigation by the American Psychological Association, found much the same result. program subsequently had significantly higher rates of hallucinogenic drug use than those not exposed to the program.
The numbers demonstrating this started rolling in way back in 1992, when a study conducted at Indiana University showed that graduates of the D.A.R.E. was (and is) completely ineffective in preventing drug use.
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