An increasing interest in drug prevention has led to the growth in various programmes, most of which have been imported from the United States. The programmes receiving the most acclaim are the so-called resistance training programmes, of which Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is the most widely used whether in America or elsewhere. It has also been surrounded by controversy. Resistance training programmes are given to schoolchildren, the aim of which is to teach them skills to resist pressure to take drugs. DARE has recently been introduced in Britain in Nottinghamshire; another similar programme, Chemical Abuse Resolution Lies in Education (Project Charlie), operates in Hackney, London. The aim of this paper is to review the data on the effectiveness of these programmes. The conclusion is that drug resistance programmes have had a mixed response in the US, but that Project Charlie has had reasonable success in London and that DARE in Nottinghamshire needs a long-term evaluation to determine its effectiveness. Such an evaluation could have an impact on drugs prevention policy over the next decade.
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