[Vision2020] [Spam 5.59] Re: Subject change to "Was it Necessary to Use theAtomicBombs on Japan?" Former title Presidential Rankings

[Donovan Arnold]

Chas,

It is comparable because DARE is more likely to be called in, supported and visible in areas where there is more likely to be drug abuse and the availability of drugs. Just as AIDS patients are more likely to have AIDS.

If 50% of children on drugs went through the DARE program, how do you we not know that the number would not be higher if they had not?  

Another reason I don't think DARE increases drug abuse is because most of the drug abuse is illegal use of prescription drugs. This rapid increase correlated with the increase of legal prescription drug use from 1992 to 2004. The DARE prescription program was not even created until 2007.  So most, if not all of your increases, in drug abuse occurred in an area that was not even addressed by DARE. Its like blaming Bush for the Civil War. 

Don't get me wrong, I think that DARE is a close to worthless program. It probably doesn't prevent much drug abuse. But it is something, and teenagers are given facts and information to keep them off of drugs. If they choose not to listen, as most teenagers do, they have nobody to blame but themselves. It is clear to all of them, and everyone from six years old on up, not to take drugs. What they do with that information is up to them. 

I frankly, don't know how to make teenagers listen. If I did, I would be a millionaire because I would be in demand from every teen's parent and every High School administrator in the country. 

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Spam 5.59] Re: Subject change to "Was it Necessary  to Use theAtomicBombs on Japan?" Former title Presidential Rankings
To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Cc: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>, "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>, "Warren Hayman" <whayman at roadrunner.com>, vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 12:23 AM

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 18:45, Donovan Arnold
<donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

I don't believe your comparison works.

D.A.R.E. is an education program, not a treatment  Think of it as a
sex education program teaching abstinence.

We know how unsuccessful teaching abstinence has been, and that it
often contributes to the problems that it is intended to prevent.

This is not analogous to treating AIDS.  Obligatory Wikipedia quote:
"In areas where it is widely available, the development of . . . [
highly active antiretroviral therapy] . . . for HIV infection and AIDS
reduced the death rate from this disease by 80%, and raised the life
expectancy for a newly diagnosed HIV-infected person to about 20
years."

Chas



      
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