Pubdate: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 Source: Times Recorder (Zanesville, OH) Copyright: 2003 Times Recorder Contact: http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/customerservice/contactus.html Website: http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2740 Author: James Healy DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOUND D.A.R.E. INEFFECTIVE A reader DAREd anyone to dispute that any attempt to stop children using drugs is a good thing. OK, I bite. The U.S. Department of Justice determined the DARE program had no effect on subsequent drug use, except a slightly increased likelihood of drug use by DARE participants. Why use DARE, a known to be worthless program, when your community can spend your hard earned dollars on programs that exist that actually get kids off drugs? Just to get cops in classrooms to ask them to turn in their parents? JAMES HEALY Canton - --- MAP posted-by: SHeath(DPFFlorida)