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D.A.R.E Bibliography

Johnson-Spence, J., Kirtz, E., & Lerner-Kinglake,J. D.A.R.E. Bibliography. April 2003.

Anderson, Ross C. "What it was Like to Drop the DARE program." The Reconsider Quarterly. 1(4) (Winter 2001-2002): 12-13.

Anonymous. "Several studies suggest DARE programs ineffective." National Drug Strategy Network News Briefs. 4(1) (1993): 1p.

Beck, Jerome. "100 Years of ‘Just Say No’ Versus ‘Just Say Know’: Reevaluating Drug Education Goals for the Coming Century." Evaluation Review. 22(1) (1998): 15-45.

Becker, H.K., et al. "Impact evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)." Journal of Drug Education. 22(4) (1992): 283-291.

Boles L. "DARE to say no to drugs: Law enforcement takes on a new role - teaching." Adolescent Counselor Magazine. 1(4) (1988): 39-42.

Brown, Joel H. "Listen to the kids: When it comes to drug education, students confirm what research says." American School Board Journal. 184 (1997): 3 pp.

Brown, J. H. and J. E. Horowitz. "Deviance and Deviants: Why Adolescent Substance Use Prevention Programs Do Not Work." Evaluation Review. 17(5) (1993): 529-555.

Brown, Joel H., and Ita G. G. Kreft. "Zero Effects of Drug Prevention Programs: Issues and Solutions." Evaluation Review. 22(1) (1998): 3-14.

Carter, David L. and U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. "Community policing and D.A.R.E.: A practitioner's perspective." (1995): 8 pp.

Caulkins, Jonathan P., et al. "An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Uncertainty: The cost-effectiveness of school-based drug prevention programs." (1999): 194 pp.

Center for Educational Research and Development (CERD). Home page. 4 April 2003.

Clayton, R.R., et al. "The Effectiveness of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (Project DARE): 5-year follow-up results." Preventive Medicine. 25(3) (1996): 307-318. various pp.

D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). Home Page. 4 April 2003.

D'Emidio-Caston, Marianne and Joel H. Brown. "The Other side of the story: Student narratives on the California drug, alcohol, and tobacco education programs." Evaluation Review. 22(1) (1998): 95-117.

DeJong, W. "Project DARE: teaching kids to say "no" to drugs and alcohol." National Institute of Justice Research. 196: (1986): 2-5.

DeJong, W. "A short-term evaluation of project DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education): preliminary indications of effectiveness." Journal of Drug Education. 17(4) (1987): 279-94.

Donnermeyer, Joseph F. "Educator perceptions of the D.A.R.E. officer." Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. 44(1) (1998): 1-17.

Donnermeyer, Joseph F. and Russell R. Davis. "Cumulative effects of prevention education on substance use among 11th grade students in Ohio." Journal of School Health. 68(4) (1998): 151-158.

Donnermeyer, Joseph F. and T. N. Wurschmidt. "Educators' perceptions of the D.A.R.E. program." Journal of Drug Education. 27(3) (1997): 259-76.

Douglass Fyr, James. "The Dark Side of DARE." Village Voice. 29 July 1993.

Dukes, Richard L., et al. "Long-Term Impact of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE): Results of a 6-Year Follow-Up." Evaluation Review. 21(4) (1997): 483-500.

Dukes, Richard L., et al. "A Three-year follow-up of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)." Evaluation Review 20(1) (1996): 49-66.

Dukes Richard L., et al. "An evaluation of D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), using a Solomon four-group design with latent variables." Evaluation Review. 19(3) 1995:409-435.

Drug Reform Coordination Network. "Articles about the D.A.R.E. Program - Another Look at Police in Our Schools." Undated. 3 April 2003.

Drug Reform Coordination Network. "An Analysis of DARE." Undated. 3 April 2003.

Drug Strategies. "Making the grade: A guide to school drug prevention programs." (1999): 44 pp.

Elliot, Jeff. "Drug Prevention Placebo: How DARE Wastes Time, Money, and Police." Reason. (March 1995): 14-21.

Ennett, S., et al. "How effective is drug abuse resistance education? A meta-analysis of Project DARE outcome evaluations." American Journal of Public Health. 84 (1994): 1394-1401.

Ennett, S., et al. "Long-term evaluation of drug abuse resistance education". Addictive Behaviors. 19 (1994): 113-125.

Ennett, S., et al. "A Comparison of Current Practice in School-Based Substance Use Prevention Programs with Meta-Analysis Findings." Prevention Science. 4(1) (2003): 1-14

Eyle, Alexandra. "A Guide to shopping for drug education programs." The Reconsider Quarterly. 1(4) (2001-2002): 4-5, 11.

Glass, S. "Don't you D.A.R.E." The New Republic. 3 March 1997 12 p.

Gorman, D.M. "The Effectiveness of DARE and other drug use prevention programs." American Journal of Public Health 85(6) (1995): 873-874.

Gorman, D.M. "The Irrelevance of Evidence in the Development of School-Based Drug Prevention Policy, 1986-1996." Evaluation Review. 22(1) (1998): 118-146.

Gottfredson, Denise C. and David B. Wilson. "Characteristics of Effective School-Based Substance Abuse Prevention." Prevention Science. 4(1) (2003): 27-38.

Hallfors, Denise, et al. "Drug Free Schools survey: Report of results." School of Public Health, University of North Carolina. (2000): 23 p.

Hansen, W.B. "Pilot test results comparing the All Stars program with seventh grade D.A.R.E.: program integrity and mediating variable analysis." Substance Use and Misuse. 31(10) (1996):1359-1377.

Hansen, W.B. and R.B. McNeal." How D.A.R.E. works: An examination of program effects on mediating variables." Health Education and Behavior. 24(2) (1997): 165-176.

Harmon, Michele Alicia. "An Evaluation of D.A.R.E.: Reducing the Risk of Drug Involvement among Early Adolescents: An Evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)." (1993): various pp.

Harmon, Michele Alicia. "Reducing the risk of drug involvement among early adolescents: An evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)." Evaluation Review. 17(2) (1993):221-239.

Harris, Stephaan. "Schools' anti-drug message fails to last." USA Today. 2 Aug. 1999.

Kochis, D.S. "The effectiveness of Project DARE: Does it work?" Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. 40(2) (1995): 40-47.

Kreft, Ita G. G. "An illustration of item homogeneity scaling and multilevel analysis techniques in the evaluation of drug prevention programs." Evaluation Review. 22(1) (1998): 46-77.

Lindstrom, P. and R. Svensson. "Attitudes towards drugs among school youths. An evaluation of the Swedish DARE programme." Nordic Studies of Alcohol and Drugs. [English Suppl] 15: (1998):7-23.

Lynam, Donald R., et al. "Project DARE: No Effects at 10-Year Follow-Up." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 67(4) (1999): 590-593.

Marx, E. and W. DeJong. "An invitation to Project DARE: Drug Abuse Resistance Education: Program brief." U.S. Dept. of Justice. (1988): 10 pp.

McNeal, R.B. and W. B. Hansen. "An examination of strategies for gaining convergent validity in natural experiments: DARE as an illustrative study." Evaluation Review. 19(2) (1995): 141-158.

Moilanen, Renee. "Just say no again: The old failures of new and improved anti-drug education." Reason.  2004.  16 pp.

Norland, S., et al. "Teacher’s Use of and Perception of a Drug Curriculum." Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. 40(2) (1999): 100-111.

Palumbo, D.J. and J.L. Ferguson. "Evaluating Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT): Is the impact the same as that of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)?" Evaluation Review. 19(6) (1995): 597-619.

Perry, Cheryl L., et al. "A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Middle and Junior High School D.A.R.E. and D.A.R.E Plus Programs." Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.157 (2003): 178-184.

Perry, Cheryl L., et al. "The Minnesota DARE PLUS Project: Creating community partnerships to prevent drug use and violence." Journal of School Health. 70(3) (2000): 84-88.

Research Triangle Institute. "Past and future directions of the DARE program: An evaluation review." (1994): various pp.

Rindskopf, David and Leonard Saxe. "Zero effects in substance abuse programs: Avoiding false positives and false negatives in the evaluation of community-based programs." Evaluation Review. 22(1) (1998): 78-94.

Ringwalt, Christopher, et al. "An Outcome evaluation of Project DARE." Health Education Research. 6(3) (1991): 327-337.

Ringwalt, Christopher, et al. "The Prevalence of Effective Substance Use Prevention Curricula in U.S. Middle Schools." Prevention Science. 3(4) (2002): 257-265.

Roona, Michael. "Are We Doing Enough?" The Reconsider Quarterly. 1(4) (Winter 2001-2002): 2-3.

Rosenbaum, Dennis P. and Gordon S. Hanson. "Assessing the Effects of School-Based Education: A Six-Year Multilevel Analysis of Project D.A.R.E." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 35(4) (1998): 381-412.

Rosenbaum, Dennis, et al. "Cops in the Classroom: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Drug Resistance Education (DARE)" Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 31(1) (1994): 3-31.

Rosenbaum, Marsha. "A Focus on Safety First Strikes a Universal Chord." The Reconsider Quarterly. 1(4) (Winter 2001-2002): 26-28.

Rosenbaum, Marsha. "Just Say Know to Drugs". AlterNet.org, Independent Media Institute, 6 December 2002.

Rosenbaum, Marsha. "Safety First: A Reality Based Approach to Teen Drugs, and Drug Education." Drug Policy Alliance. (2002): various pp.

Rosenbaum, Marsha. "Teach teens to just say know." Los Angles Daily News 4 December 2002.

Shepard, Edward M. "The Economic Costs of D.A.R.E." Le Moyne College: Institute of Industrial Relations, Research Paper Number 22. (September 2001): 20pp.

Shepard, Edward M. "We Wasted Billions on D.A.R.E." The Reconsider Quarterly. 1(4) (Winter 2001-2002): 6-11.

Silvia, R.K. "Evaluation of Idaho’s DARE "Drug Abuse Resistance Education Projects." Idaho State Dept. of Law Enforcement. (1994): various pp.

Skager, Rodney. "Research Supporting Alternatives to Current Drug Prevention Education for Young People." Unpublished. Undated: 20 pp.

Skager, Rodney. "On Reinventing Drug Education, Especially for Adolescents." The Reconsider Quarterly. 1(4) (Winter 2001-2002): 14-18.

Skager, Rodney. "Why not 'DARE' to try harm reduction in prevention." Prevention File. (2001): 12-14.

Tobler, Nancy and Howard H. Stratton. "Effectiveness of school-based drug prevention programs: A meta-analysis of the research." Journal of Primary Prevention. 18 (1997): 71-128.

U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance. "An Introduction to DARE: Drug Abuse Resistance Education." (1991): 14 pp.

U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance. "An Introduction to the National D.A.R.E. Parent Program: Program Brief." (1993): 24 pp.

U. S. General Accounting Office (GAO). "Youth Illicit Drug Use Prevention: DARE Long-Term Evaluations and Federal Efforts to Identify Effective Programs" (January 2003): 20pp.

U. S. Department of Justice. "The Dare® Program: A Review of Prevalence, User Satisfaction, and Effectiveness." (October 1994):2pp.

University of Akron, Institute for Health and Social Policy. "The New DARE Program: An information kit for Educators." Undated. 11pp.

Walsh, Thomas T. "Review of Existing DARE Evaluations." Undated. 4 April 2003.

Wysong, E., et al. "Truth and DARE: Tracking drug education to graduation and as symbolic politics." Social Problems. 41(1994): 448-472.

Zagumny, M.J. and M.K. Thompson. "Does D.A.R.E. Work? An evaluation in rural Tennessee." Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. 42(2) (1997):32-41.