Presents the first history of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), which began in Los Angeles in 1983 as a joint venture between the police department and the unified school district. By the mid-1990s, it was taught in 75 percent of school districts across the United States.
Intriguing social chronicle of the DARE anti-drug education program . . . . An approachable consideration of an unexamined aspect of the failed war on drugs . . . . evenhanded."—Kirkus Reviews
"A comprehensive history of a program whose glory days may be behind it but that left an indelible mark on America—and not just as a target of mockery."—Reason Magazine
Max Felker-Kantor is associate professor of history at Ball State University.