DARE - or Drug Abuse Resistance Education - is an education program that aims to prevent young people using drugs, turning to violence or joining gangs. Young people on the program are given classes in school by local police officers about the dangers of drugs over a ten week period.

Despite being widely implemented across the US and elsewhere in the world, independent studies have proven that DARE does not actually reduce drug abuse, and in fact, some studies showed it was linked with increases. In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States placed the D.A.R.E. program in the category ‘Does Not Work’.