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US CO: -Column: The Dire consequences Of D <br />0 <br />between 1992 and 1995 on the heels of DARE's most prolific years of <br />growth. Some high profile potheads at Boulder's Sacred Herb <br />Church -where toking joints once served as communion -also felt strongly <br />that DARE was leading children to drugs. And who would know better, I <br />thought. <br />Shortly after the HHS report broke, I conducted some research, which <br />involved contacting the people who know DARE best -its founders. <br />I called psychologist William Hansen, whose research formed the basis for <br />DARE. Hansen was a professor of psychology at the University of <br />Southern California when DARE was started in 1983 by then -Los Angeles <br />Police Chief Darryl Gates, whose son was addicted to drugs. Hansen said <br />the LAPD took an anti-drug model he had developed while it was in its <br />infant stages and ran with it. More than a decade later, Hansen observed, <br />DARE was still using the exact same model, even though he himself had <br />scrapped it as one of many unsuccessful attempts to develop a workable <br />anti-drug program for schools. "DARE was misguided as soon as they <br />adopted our material, because we were off base," Hansen told me. "It's <br />outdated material that does not work." <br />I called Bill Colson, the world-renowned psychologist who co-authored 17 <br />books with the late Carl Rogers, former president of the American <br />Psychological Association. In the '60s and '70s, Colson and Rogers, along <br />with renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow, developed and popularized <br />psychological practices known as "experimental education," "humanistic <br />psychology," and "self -actualization." Their theories formed the foundation <br />for Hansen's research. <br />Like Hansen, Colson, Rogers and Maslow all eventually said "oops," <br />regarding the theories DARE was founded upon. <br />"DARE is rooted in trash psychology," Colson told me two years ago. "We <br />developed the theories that DARE was founded on, and we were wrong. <br />Even Abe Maslow wrote about these theories being wrong before he died." <br />Which is true, said Boulder psychotherapist Ellen Maslow, Abraham <br />Maslow's daughter. She called DARE "nonsense" in 1996, saying the <br />program represented widespread misinterpretation of humanistic <br />psychology. <br />Ellen Maslow said her father's vision of humanistic psychology was <br />misunderstood by public educators, who bent and twisted it and ended up <br />R �F9 i"ronino c.no nar <br />