Which of the following is true of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) project initiated in public schools?
A) Initiated in 1983 as a cooperative project independent of law enforcement, it uses a social environmental learning model.
B) It gained acceptance slowly and took nearly 10 years to cover 24 states; more than half the nation's schools were not using it.
C) The federal government rejected proposals to grant it financial support through the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act.
D) Evaluations have found it to have little effect on substance-using behavior and have classified it as a noninteractive model.

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Evaluations of the DARE program have consistently shown that it has little to no significant effect on reducing substance use among participants. This is partly because the program, especially in its original form, was more didactic and less interactive, focusing on teaching students about the dangers of drug use without effectively engaging them in ways that would alter their behavior.

Which of the Following Is True of the Drug Abuse