Brilliant Ways to Tell Kids the Truth About Drugs

With school back in session, many students across the country will file into classrooms to learn drug education or resistance training. But with shifting public perceptions and drug policy reforms in many states, drug education programs are entering a new landscape in which the punitive, zero-tolerance approach they once championed is increasingly being called into question.

Often, those programs are at odds with cultural perceptions, especially when paired against legal frameworks in states where marijuana has been legalized for both medical and recreational use. Advocates have called for reform, but divergence from the abstinence only approach can be a tricky issue given the target audience: kids.

Still, experts point to the failures of programs such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), whose trademark zero-tolerance curricula is a point of reference for many, for getting teenagers off of drugs, as evidenced by evaluations from the Government Accountability Office, the American Psychological Association, and ...

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