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Did You Know D.A.R.E. Lacked Scientific Evaluation Until 2009?, from ProCon.org

Submitted by David Borden on (Issue #849)

Did you know the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program was excluded from the Dept. of Education's "National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices" until 2009, because it didn't have a "scientifically tested," "evidence-based" curriculum? Read the details on dare.procon.org, part of the ProCon.org family.

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Bongstar420 (not verified)

I assumed it had not empirical foundation after I saw the presentation. I didn't know it

Thu, 08/28/2014 - 9:53pm Permalink

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