The Effects of Dare on Drug Use

As early as 1991, there's already literally more than a dozen studies showing that this doesn't work. Within eight years, we already know that the knowledge and attitude gains that you get from having a cop come and talk to kids where off they last about six months, maybe a year. There's a couple studies that even find what's called the boomerang effect that kids who have gone through the dare program are more likely to use drugs. And so the dare program itself takes three different approaches to this throughout the 90s.