Drug Abuse Resistance Education

on what the effects of drugs would be. Now, I am very educated on what the effects of drugs are. Drugs can cause memory loss, weaken your senses, and even death. To me don’t be a zero be a DARE hero, means to never take take drugs and by doing that you are being a hero because you have saved yourself from so much damage. If you are asked to take drugs, follow these steps: define, assess, respond, and lastly evaluate. In DARE, we talked and learned about a lot of drugs. The first two are…

This is all the things I have learned by doing the dare program. I learned a lot of stuff in dare and here are some things I have learned by doing dare. First, I learned in dare that alcohol can slow down your brain and can also loss of coordination, poor judgment, memory loss, loss of self-control, slow reflexes. Alcohol also weakens the heart muscle and minimizes the amount of blood that pumps to you heart. I also learned how bad alcohol can be to your body and can also cause liver cancer.…

envisions a world in which students everywhere are empowered to respect others and choose to lead lives free from violence, substance abuse, and other dangerous behaviors.” This is the vision of the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program. The D.A.R.E. program is a substance abuse prevention education system that seeks to prevent the use of illicit drugs, membership in gangs, and other violent behavior. The D.A.R.E. program is effective for the United State’s youth. The…

R.E. which stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and what the program did was give advice and teach skills to younger children that are necessary in order to avoid drugs, gangs, violence, and things of that nature that will come about in future of most children (DARE). The problem is that 1983 is over 32 years ago, and the D.A.R.E program that once was in full swing, unfortunately has little to no impact on the children anymore. Something needs to be done to help. Drugs have been around for…

which they may need in order to prevent the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco or even gangs. D.A.R.E stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, which in the name itself demonstrates the purpose for this program and according to the program website, D.A.R.E. was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles and during this time it has proven so successful that it is now being implemented in more than 52 countries around the world (Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, 2016). The program was initially supposed…

Background Substance abuse has been called an “urgent and growing threat”. This threat to our nation’s public health is a crisis of epidemic proportions. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans used illicit drugs. Some sources approximate 6.8 million Americans engage in non-medical prescription drug abuse (Abramowitz, 2014). A diverse cross-section of Americans from every region, state, background, and walk of life are touched by this plague. The United States Department of Justice…

Intro As of 2013 an estimated 22.7 million Americans needed treatment for a drug related problem but only 2.5 million received treatment at a specialty facility” (Drug Facts, pg. 7). This is a pretty big gap in needed treatment. One must ask why aren’t people seeking treatment? Could it be lack of health care, resistance or outright denial? Once a person has decided to try to escape their addiction they must get help. Clearly if they could do it themselves they most likely wouldn’t have a…

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Aims: I am writing a report on drug abuse and to tell you what drugs can do you and your social life and how it effect the people around you. 1.2 What is drug abuse: drug abuse can also be called substance abuse a pattern of using drugs that leads to significant problems. If your addicted you can crave the drug you are using and may not get off the drug if you get help. 2. Types of drug abuse: 2.1 Short term effect of ecstasy: here is some ideas of the short term…

you about D.A.R.E or drug abuse resistance education. I will also be talking to you about something called the buddy system and a call list that you use in case of an emergency and common pressures middle schoolers like me and you face. One thing that we learned in D.A.R.E is that it is a class, the class where you learn how to be safe. We talk about how drugs are very dangerous for you, me and other people. You will also talk about how to say no when someone offers you a drug. In D.A.R.E…

drama, and the use of illegal drugs. The use of illegal drugs during this time can have damaging effects for the rest of students’ lives. Not only are drugs…