LETTERS From time to time, I encounter someone opposed to the D.A.R.E. program. It's just like any other thing that is on top. When you're number one, that's who you pick on.

People have asked me, "Does D.A.R.E. work?" I say yes.

The next challenge is usually, "prove it." It is easy for me to see the effectiveness in the program when I look straight into a 10-year-old child's eye, and he says thank you for showing me how to resist the bad things in the world.

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