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The lack of government regulation and control over the lucrative illegal drug market has created a large population of unregulated drug dealers who lure many children into the illegal drug trade. The U.S. government's most recent 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reported that nationwide over 800,000 adolescents ages 12–17 ...
T-shirts and other merchandise reading "D.A.R.E. To Keep Kids Off Drugs" became popular as an ironic item in drug culture and other countercultures starting in the 1990s. According to a report from Vice, the program's appealing logo and acronym may unintentionally suggest one should dare to experiment with drugs. [48]
That doesn’t mean schools have stopped trying to educate kids about the risks of drug use. D.A.R.E. is still taught in thousands of communities across the country, using a revamped curriculum ...
Drug dealers use social media to “recruit kids who might not be looking for drugs and try to ‘build friendships’ with them … which can lead down dangerous roads,” explains May ...
Substance misuse, also known as drug misuse or, in older vernacular, substance abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to the individual or others. It is a form of substance-related disorder .
Starting in 1983, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program sent police officers into classrooms to teach fifth- and sixth-graders about the dangers of drugs and the need, as Nancy Reagan ...
Drug possession is the crime of having one or more illegal drugs in one's possession, either for personal use, distribution, sale or otherwise. Illegal drugs fall into different categories and sentences vary depending on the amount, type of drug, circumstances, and jurisdiction.
Drug traffickers have used bright colors in their products for years “to distinguish their products from other products on the street,” Dr. Sheila Vakharia, the head of research for the Drug ...