Reducing the Risk of Drug Involvement among Early Adolescents: An Evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE).

Harmon, Michele Alicia

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Publication Date: 1993

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Reducing the Risk of Drug Involvement among Early Adolescents: An Evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE).

Harmon, Michele Alicia

Evaluation Review, v17 n2 p221-39 Apr 1993

DARE's effectiveness in Charleston County (South Carolina) was studied by comparing 341 DARE to 367 non-DARE fifth-grade students. DARE teaches students to recognize and resist social pressures to use drugs. DARE has positive impacts on anti-substance abuse attitudes, assertiveness, positive peer association, association with drug-using peers, and alcohol use. (SLD)

Descriptors: Assertiveness, Comparative Testing, Drinking, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Peer Influence, Preadolescents, Program Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Youth Programs

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: South Carolina

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