D.A.R.E. Program Effective Despite Downsizing, Advocates Say

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Whitehall police Officer David Artman remembers the woman's bruised face when he and his partner responded to a domestic dispute. They left that August day, he said, with her intoxicated boyfriend in handcuffs.

Alcohol or drugs factor into domestic violence "almost every time," Artman told seventh-graders during a recent Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E., program at J.E. Harrison Middle School in Baldwin-Whitehall School District.

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D.A.R.E. Program Effective Despite Downsizing, Advocates Say

The D.A.R.E. program engages kids in discussions about drug abuse, peer pressure, self-esteem and bullying.

Artman certainly reaches his audience, Pri...

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