You and society may well see that as true. However, keep the goals of prevention in mind. You're trying to target the highest-risk kids, not the lowest risk. If feeling outcast already, the message will have little effect. The more gruesome or extreme the message, the more likely this outcome is.
Fear can facilitate change because it induces a motivation to protect the self.
Because it is so popularly used in this state and elsewhere. The worth of this program is of continued controversy. Certainly, it's popular. However, that popularity seems separate from DARE's effects on drug use . I raise it as an issue in class because there are other programs, and the singular emphasis on DARE diverts limited prevention funds and efforts from those alternatives.