I definitely wish it had been a tiny bit more realistic. I was led to believe that I’d be constantly dodging strangers offering me free drugs that were exactly what they were supposed to be. The reality is that in most cases, you get drugs from your friends, and that “peer pressure” isn’t overt. They also needed to touch on the fact that fentanyl is in pretty much everything nowadays.

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we love dare!! (currently getting stoned)

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It taught me not to do drugs I have several drug addicts in my family

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I think it’s good that they’re instilling in kids young, not to necessarily refuse drugs, but to be self confident and educated enough not to succumb to peer pressure, especially in areas where kids are likely to grow up and go to a college with greek life, aka the normalised epitome of peer pressure. most of the kids i passed dare with use nic, but it’s more-so that they don’t care about the effects as opposed to being ignorant to them.

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i think you can criticize a LOT about DARE, but i think making kids aware about drugs isn’t an issue. i think it makes sense to educate kids about drugs and what they are, instead of leaving them to make irresponsible decisions out of ignorance, with no prior education. kind of like sex education— while i personally would believe premarital sex is bad for society, it’s very important to have sex education, to educate kids instead of leaving them ignorant and irresponsible.

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We didn’t have a DARE program, but in the ripe old grade of 5th grade, we all had to take an anonymous ‘are you doing illegal shit/is your family evil’ and the way that taught me a million ways to get high that I didn’t know about- “are you sniffing markers to get high” “you can sniff markers to get high?!?”

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