{"id":22560,"date":"2023-06-30T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/why-is-this-program-still-popular-when-it-has-been-proven-to-be-ineffective\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T16:10:50","slug":"why-is-this-program-still-popular-when-it-has-been-proven-to-be-ineffective","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/why-is-this-program-still-popular-when-it-has-been-proven-to-be-ineffective\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2022 Why is this program still popular when it has been proven to be ineffective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">D.A.R.E. and Scared Straight programs have been used in the U.S. for roughly 30 years. The intention is to frighten youth into not using drugs. Many high schools have D.A.R.E. officers. This program has continually been shown by research to be ineffective and in some cases counterproductive, with some students who graduate from D.A.R.E. actually being more likely to drink or do drugs than students who don\u2019t participate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u2022 Why is this program still popular when it has been proven to be ineffective?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: small; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u2022 Is it really possible to \u201c scare \u201d someone out of doing something they want to do?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.A.R.E. and Scared Straight programs have been used in the U.S. for roughly 30 years. The intention is to frighten youth into not using drugs. Many high schools have D.A.R.E. officers. This program has continually been shown by research to be ineffective and in some cases counterproductive, with some students who graduate from D.A.R.E. actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1107],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=22560"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=22560"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=22560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}