That last citation is folklore, not science. Most reliable studies will show statistical #s for alchoholism in ethnic groupings and yes, Jews and Asians are mostly on the lower end of the scale. But introduce any other drug and the numbers start sorting by income, not ethnicity. Cocaine, specifically, puts Jews in the upper margins because the largest block demographic of consumption is white college educated males. The Univ. of Minnesota has a lot of their addiction studies up on the web. Worth a read to reinforce facts, not stereotypes.
Speaking as junkie and alchoholic gone into retirement, the only benefit of the DARE program I can specifically cite (having read the RTI, Harvard, and several other studies) is that my dealer in pharmaceutical narcotics for many years had 3 different DARE bumperstickers and a PBA sticker on his '67 microbus and every time he got pulled over (usually picking up product in a high crime area) he'd get fatherly cautions about that side of town.
I attended one of the top twenty public high schools in the nation, #1 in my state, and had one of the few operational BBSs in public ed. at the time which introduced me another time module. "Stuff to do when you're not working your ass off, playing bridge, playing hockey, or getting high." was as far as I'd matured until then.
I've though over the years that more independant study and goal definition would have served most of the people with fringe socialization skills who turned to drugs (myself incuded) because by hook or by crook we were taking direct action to stop being ourselves for a little while while recieving no model of how to achieve change through personal endevour.
In reflection, DARE most served me by insuring a steady flow of Vicodin and Percoset while I was writing my collegiate senior thesis. I think it mentioned Lecan.
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That last citation is folklore, not science. Most reliable studies will show statistical #s for alchoholism in ethnic groupings and yes, Jews and Asians are mostly on the lower end of the scale. But introduce any other drug and the numbers start sorting by income, not ethnicity. Cocaine, specifically, puts Jews in the upper margins because the largest block demographic of consumption is white college educated males. The Univ. of Minnesota has a lot of their addiction studies up on the web. Worth a read to reinforce facts, not stereotypes.
Speaking as junkie and alchoholic gone into retirement, the only benefit of the DARE program I can specifically cite (having read the RTI, Harvard, and several other studies) is that my dealer in pharmaceutical narcotics for many years had 3 different DARE bumperstickers and a PBA sticker on his '67 microbus and every time he got pulled over (usually picking up product in a high crime area) he'd get fatherly cautions about that side of town. I attended one of the top twenty public high schools in the nation, #1 in my state, and had one of the few operational BBSs in public ed. at the time which introduced me another time module. "Stuff to do when you're not working your ass off, playing bridge, playing hockey, or getting high." was as far as I'd matured until then. I've though over the years that more independant study and goal definition would have served most of the people with fringe socialization skills who turned to drugs (myself incuded) because by hook or by crook we were taking direct action to stop being ourselves for a little while while recieving no model of how to achieve change through personal endevour. In reflection, DARE most served me by insuring a steady flow of Vicodin and Percoset while I was writing my collegiate senior thesis. I think it mentioned Lecan.