Teaching Children Online Safety ‘As Important as Crossing The Road’, Says Marie Collins Foundation

Nov 25, 2014

Children must be educated about online dangers from the very beginning, urges head of online child abuse charity – Marie Collins Foundation. (Reuters).

The New D.A.R.E. Program—This One Works

Sep 10, 2014

The “keepin’ it REAL” substance-abuse curriculum focuses on elementary and middle-school students’ decisions, not drugs. If you were one of millions of children who completed the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, or D.A.R.E., between 1983 and 2009, you may be...

D.A.R.E. America Position Paper on Marijuana Legalization

Sep 1, 2014

D.A.R.E. America joins every major public health association, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and other groups in opposing the legalization of marijuana.

21st CENTURY D.A.R.E. – Different Than the D.A.R.E. You May Have Known

Aug 21, 2014

Increasing use of drugs by youth in the 1970s and 1980s gave cause for alarm. Between 1975 and 1980, nearly two-thirds (65%) of high school students were reported to have used an illicit drug and nearly two out of every five (39%) have used an illicit drug other than...