TIL: Today I Learned...

Expatriate said

TIL that research on DARE shows it to be at best questionable and possibly has the opposite of the intended impact as it exposes children to new drug information which they might otherwise not encounter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education#Studies_on_effectiveness

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The 10 yr old was watching CSI with mom the other day. One small part was about some people OD'ing on a drug and they caught a 20 something with a pill, and she's like "I thought he gave me E! What's this stuff?"

I turned to the kid and was like "See, this is another reason we don't do drugs.. sometimes you don't even get what you wanted and die" (not the girl talking, but the body they found earlier).

Her reaction was pretty much this..