Helping kids stay drug free. It is a joint project of the schools and the Eureka Police Department. The 17-week curriculum is aimed to equip youth with the skills to resist peer pressure to experiment with and use harmful drugs. A Serious Problem D.A.R.E. was initiated because of an alarming increase in drug use. Drugs are not confined only to the murky world of criminals.
Drug abuse is a serious problem plaguing more and more of our people.
It impairs emotional growth and learning. Statistics show that 1 in 16 high school students smoke marijuana daily. Many people in their early 20's talk about being burned out by excessive drug use in their teens. It has come to the point where pre-teens need to be inoculated, in a sense, against the lure of the drug culture. A unique feature of project D.A.R.E. is the use of police officers as instructors.