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US CO: l;olunm-�fhe Dire Consequences Of I0 O <br />Next <br />US CO: DARE Losing Out In Metro Area <br />Fri, 4 Dec 1998 <br />27 lines <br />http://www.ma2inc.org/drugnews/v98.nlll7.aO3.html/all <br />,.'Media`Awareness Project <br />US CO: Column: The Dire Consequences Of DARE <br />Newshawk: cohippllevellers.org (Colo. Hemp Init. Project) <br />Pubdate: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 <br />Source: Boulder Weekly (CO) <br />Contact: bweditor@tesser.com <br />Website: http://www.boulderweekly.com/ <br />Author: Wayne Laugesen (Wayne@Laugesen.com) <br />THE DIRE CONSEQUENCES OF DARE <br />Epp and Beckner are right (and we don't say that often) <br />Police Chief Mark Beckner and Boulder County Sheriff George Epp <br />recently dumped the local chapters of DARE, a national mistake known as <br />Drug Abuse Resistance Education. They should be applauded for their <br />bold actions, which hopefully will put Boulder at the leading edge of an <br />overnight national trend. <br />Publicly, Beckner says he has nothing against DARE, which every year <br />dispatches police officers to preach against the evils of drug use to 35 <br />million fifth graders nationally. The police chief allows that the program <br />wasn't meeting the community's needs. Epp criticizes DARE for lacking <br />flexibility. They're being polite. <br />The truth: DARE led to an increase in drug abuse among teenagers. <br />I suspected that in 1996 when the U.S. Department of Health and Human <br />Services issued a report showing a rise in teen drug use of 78 percent <br />