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 PUBLIC LAW 102-332—AUG. 3, 1992 106 STAT. 853 Public Law 102-332 102d Congress Joint Resolution Designating September 10, 1992, as "National D.A.R.E. Day". Whereas D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is the largest and most effective drug-use prevention education program in the United States, and is now taught to twenty miliion youths in grades K-12; Whereas D.A.R.E. is taught in more than two hundred thousand classrooms reaching aH fifty States, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Mexico and Department of Defense Dependent Schools worldwide; Whereas the D.A.R.E. core curriculimi, developed by the Los Angeles Pohce Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District, helps prevent substance abuse among school-age children by providing students with accurate information about alcohol and drugs, by teaching students decisionmaking skills and the consequences of their behavior and by building students' self- esteem while teaching them how to resist peer pressure; Whereas D.A.R.E. provides parents with information and guidance to further their children's development and to reinforce their decisions to lead drug-free lives; Whereas the D.A.R.E. Program is taught by veteran pohce officers who come straight from the streets with years of direct experience with ruined lives caused by substsmce abuse, giving them unmatched credibihty; Whereas each pohce officer who teaches the D.A.R.E. Program completes eighty hours of specialized training in areas such as child development, classroom management, teaching techniques, and communication skills; and Whereas D.A.R.E., according to independent research, substantially impacts students' attitudes toward substance use and contributes to improved study habits, higher grades, decreased vandahsm and gang activity, and generates greater respect for police officers: Now, therefore, be it Aug. 3, 1992 [S.J. Res. 295]

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