D.A.R.E Drug Prevention Program

All countries across the world come across the problem of internal crime and violence apart from international terrorism. Both developing as well as developed countries face these problems drastically. Governments and international agencies such as United Nations have tried to combat such threats to pave the way for peace and non-violence.

Several reasons can be attributed to the outbreak of crimes and non-violence. However, one of the most threatening reason is that the abuse of drugs and alcohol among children. In the United States of America, it has been reported that the abuse of drugs has been on the increase due to many reasons.It has become a headache for the police department of the country and finally with the cooperation of the government, the police department has constituted a program called Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D. A.

R. E). ‘DARE’ is an international educational program which was founded by the police department of Los Angles in the United States of America in the year 1983. The main intention behind for starting such program was to protect the school going students from involving in three major crimes such as addiction to drugs, becoming a member in gangs and having a violent behavior. Theses StatementThis program strengthens the education program not only to the students but also to the teachers and parents.

Factors necessitating the DARE program One of the surveys conducted by the police officers in the country prior to the establishment of the organization has documented that the percentage of students involving in such crimes was increasing. Taking this matter seriously, the police officers emphasized that the students should be protected at any cost from being indulged in such illegal activities, because they are the citizens of coming generation and are supposed to work for the progress and prosperity of the country.And if such crime is continued, there will be outbreak of crimes and violence and the country will come down among the rest of the world as an important power. Thus, the only way to save the children was through developing an awareness program named DARE. The police officers brought the importance of this program by conducting seminars on the topics of evil effects of these three major crimes which is mainly opened to the school students from 5th standard to 12th standard, including their parents.Though this program was fist launched in the Los Angeles, later it became famous across other parts of the countries, because it proved to be 100% success.

The increasing demand for this program led to the development of DARE America- a nonprofit organization.The basic purpose of this initiation was to establish and improve the DARE local programs so as to protect largely the human resources through providing training to the police officers, assisting in the development and evaluation of the D. A. R.

E. curriculum, providing educational materials to students, monitoring instruction standards and results of the program. In the US around 80% of the schools are educated through Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. More than 54 countries around the world are providing DARE program to preventing the use of alcohol and drug use. It reduces the use and abuse of alcohol among the young people in the society. It is measured on the basis of quantity and frequency of drinking among their colleagues in the society.

So the effectiveness of DARE program provides the information about the use of alcohol and drug and its impact on human body. The drug and alcohol abuse among the students are significant obstacle to his or her educational achievement or objectives. The educational department should provide health education classes to the school going students to give appropriate knowledge about the use of drugs and alcohol. Universal program, selective programs, indicated programs have helped the society well in the prevention of use of drugs and alcohol.The use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco and other similar products are likely to affect the US populace. In order to rescue from these drugs, all most all the schools and colleges in America tightened the regulations, strengthening the academic requirements, adjusting course schedule and also extended the library hours and also started recreational facilities in the college campuses it helps the students and their parents as alcohol free campuses.

In the college campuses started this program has provided the information about impact of use of drugs and its consequences in the human body.The main social impact is to reduce the use of drugs and alcohol by the young generation typically declined and they are going for some alternative foods such as chewing gums. The Crime Triangle There are mainly three elements of the crime triangle that a crime prevention program seeks to address, namely desire; ability; and opportunity. Since these elements are depicted in the form of triangular shapes they are known as crime triangle.

It is said that behind every crime it is necessary that all the three elements must be present.If any one of the element is missing then a triangle cannot be obtained which at the same time shows a positive signal that no crime will occur. So the main objective of a crime prevention program is to remove any one leg of the crime triangle so that the crime will not occur. For this purpose many crime prevention programs were founded like DARE.

The DARE was founded mainly to remove the first element- desire - through educating school students because it is seen that the growth of desire to commit a crime comes in mind during that stage. So it is better to avoid the desire to commit crimes during that stage itself.The other two elements ability and opportunity were also removed through appropriate measures. Whatever be the programs the intension of any program must be to save the people from committing crimes. Success and Effectiveness of the Program According to the latest survey the students who enter the agenda sign a guarantee not to exercise any kind of drugs and are trained by the local law enforcement concerning the seriousness of drug exercise in an interactive in school prospectus as last ten weeks.

The statistics sideways, the most terrible aspect of the website was image located about the D. A. R. E mission statement.

In the report they quoted nine children’s ranging in the ages from basic school to high school, dressed in challenges apparel and it’s besides three smiling about the D. A. R. E policies. In the year 2005, one of the studies shows good news.

It found that there was no authenticate change in any illegal drug use between 2004 and 2005. The survey discharge that almost 19% decline found throughout the past month use of any dangerous drug by 8th, 10th, and 12th grades. The tendency is ambitious largely by decreasing rates of “marijuana” use between these students.The consumption of this drug turns down nearly 23% among 10th rating since 2001. Hence, the MTF has been conducting different kind of investigation regarding the drug, and cigarette use and associated approach among teenager students countrywide since last three decades. The survey reported that nearly 49,347 students from different classes were indulges in the use of different kind of Drug from 402 private and public schools.

The ‘material Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’ proclaimed that current illegal drug use amongst youth ages 12-17 continues to decline.Between 12-17 year olds, overall use is down 15% and marijuana use downward 17% since 2002. Due to the well quality training towards the use of drug has found a tremendous improvement and the survey report of 2005 showed a ongoing general decline in drug use, there are continued high rates of non-medical use of instruction medicines. Hence, the effort taken by the National institute on the drug abuse is a successive story and from its result we could see a drastic improvement and a steep decline in its consumption.However the institute holds a large mixture of programs to make sure the rapid distribution of research information and its implementation in policy and practice.

Avoidance programs have reproduced in response to fear about material abuse particularly among the youth. The D. A. R.

E has taken numerous Crime prevention program which assist to diminish the crimes among the students. For example the D. A. R. E.

is typical for a number of cause among them, its extensive adoption throughout the country, its use for trained and uniformed police representative in the classroom, and its arrangement of local control and federal management.In order to expand the agenda the D. A. R.

E appeal cuts across radial, ethical and economic lines. Since it was established, D. A. R. E.

has extended to encompass agenda for center and high school students for conflict resolution, gang avoidance, parent education, and after-school leisure and learning. Technological Advancements The use of technological advancement has resulted in the success of the program to a great extent. In order to replace the scramble the program and also improve the drug abuse education program, a new alternative approach has been developed in the country.The program is likely to improve the education and abuse of drugs in the schools and colleges. The recent approaches reduced the use of drugs in the 11-12 years old children’s to avoid drugs and elucidate the dangers and impact of the use of drugs.

The new approach to drug education reflected to the students is more than the other previous approaches. Because this program is widespread, the total harm affected to teenagers by the use of alcohol and tobacco is much higher than the total harm caused by harder drugs. The success of the new program is prevention of tobacco in the colleges.Conclusion The DARE program was aimed at the eradication of crime tendency among the school children by concentrating right from the primary schools. The program has been successful throughout the country not only among the school going children, but among their parents, relatives and public at large as well. The survey reports mentioned above clearly show that the program could eradicate the drug abuse and crime tendencies among children.