What Are The Goals Of D. A. R. E. Stands For Drug Prevention

There are also things that can be done to prevent people from starting to use heroin in the first place. In many areas of the world, and in every state in the U.S., drug prevention is done in the form of DARE training for middle schoolers. D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. The goals of the D.A.R.E. program are to teach kids how to make responsible decisions, how to understand others, how to handle responsibility and more. This is nice but it mostly involves telling the kids that drugs are bad and giving them tools to say no, but they don’t go into detail because they don’t want want to scare the kids. The kids should be scared. I think we should be honest with kids. Tell them what drugs like heroin do to the brain, what exactly …show more content…
For the first they had two police officers come talk to us, but they didn’t just tell us don’t do drugs. They said that we will make the choices that we make but they want us to be informed to make these choices. They talked about how difficult it is to hold a job while on drugs and that just because the drugs may come from a doctor doesn’t mean they are safe if they weren’t prescribed to you and how if you do use drugs that mixing them with alcohol or other drugs can make the side effects of the drugs worse or deadly.I don’t know how the talk affected my classmates but I still remember sitting there and feeling like those officers, those strangers, cared about my safety and wanted me to know what I would be getting into if I did drugs. The second assembly was unlike anything my school has done before. They had a previous heroin user come talk to us about his life. I don’t remember much because it was very emotional but I do remember him saying how good it felt when he started. Then things got bad. Not just the shakes of withdrawal but so much that it got to the point where he became suicidal because his life was ruined by this addiction he couldn’t get away from. He carries around the bullet he nearly shot himself with as a reminder that it is possible to make it through hell and come out the other side. That may be too much for middle schoolers in the D.A.R.E. program but