D.A.R.E
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E), is a program that was established to help fight against drugs in this country and was taught by uniformed officers that received training in talking to children in our schools to help educate them into resisting drug use. For this program covers 80% of the school districts in the United States, in fifty four countries, and has taught up to 36,000,000 children each year, so it is very important that a program of this magnitude works in order to combat against the use of drugs and alcohol.
However, over a period of ten years a study was conducted on how the D.A.R.E program effect had on our children when they first went through the program at age eight to twelve years of age and now at the age of eighteen to twenty.
It was found that after tracking one 1,000 students that had received the program, it show that it had limited effect on their attitude towards drugs. Furthermore, their findings found that there was no additional drug usage or during a follow-up reviews. It was further found that children will not engage in drug usage overall, however there will be some that will succumb to peer pressure to engage into drug activate as a whole.
As in all studies, you can show that a program has promise or not. As in Texas the program there show that there was a 29% increase in drug usage, with a 34% increase in children using tobacco products as well that was involved in the D.A.R.E program. Due to the poor response of the program the Chief of Police wanted to spend an additional 3.7 million dollars into fine tuning the program so that he could obtain better results.
Then the leaders that head the D.A.R.E program are willing to ignore the facts and will confront this research. They even have gone to state that the information is bogus, an is full of academic fraud. However, the leaders fail to realize that the research needs to be used to their advantage. Instead they attacked the information and by doing so they become counterproductive and become their own worst enemy. When in fact they need to learn from this information and build on it to make the program either better, or discontinue the program all together.
However, no matter how you may look at the D.A.R.E program, and after reviewing all the research that is provided. The program is a failure, for after pumping almost 1.3 billion dollars into the program, it has not stopped or reduced usage of alcohol or drugs by our children in this country and needs to be discontinued and alternative program should be implemented.

Hanson, D. (n.d). . Alcohol Abuse Prevention some Serious Problems, (), . Retrieved from http://www.alcoholfacts.org/D.A.R.E, Retrieved April 17, 2011

The National Institutes of Health funded a study by scholars at the University of Kentucky to examine the effect of DARE on students over the subsequent ten years. The study concluded: "Our results are consistent in documenting the absence of beneficial effects associated with the DARE program. This was true whether the outcome consisted of actual drug use or merely attitudes toward drug use." Dr. Donald R. Layman, 1999.