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<blockquote data-quote="Anaheimfan" data-source="post: 227975" data-attributes="member: 6263"><p>We have DARE in Canada, it's facilitated by the RCMP. We also have Risk Watch (occaisionally done through the Fire Department, I've had the oportunity to speak at one or two presentations), and I can't say I'm a big fan of either one. When I was in school, guys from DARE, MADD, SADD, you name it would come in and make countless presentations. They'd put on plays, show stories about how their son/daughter ODed or got alcohol poisoning and how popular they were, they'd show pictures of people banged up in Alcohol-Related wrecks, show people pics of dead bodies and bring body bags up to show....And it didn't make a difference at all...Until it actually happens, people aren't gonna understand it...Until these kids are in a car wreck and lose their friend or a loved one, until they actually watch their lifeless friend being worked on by paramedics, until these parents have a State Trooper/Police Constable standing on their doorstep saying your baby died, they aren't gonna learn. </p><p> </p><p>I could try to influence them all I want, preach till I'm all sorts of funny colors in the face, put up a dozen pictures of kids I've cut out of cars, and go on and on about how--in the end--they'd just be another number in the computer, but it wouldn't really make a difference. It wouldn't change anything. Parents will still let their kids drink/get high and etc, kids are still gonna be drinking and driving, girls are still gonna get taken advantage of while they're under the influence, you name it, it'll still happen whether we like it or not....I hope to God that it doesn't take a serious wake-up call like getting charged with Criminal Neglect/Contributing to Deliquency/Crim Neglect Causing Bodily Harm or Death/Child Endangerment/ Cop standin on their doorstep to change the parents' minds... I don't know anymore...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anaheimfan, post: 227975, member: 6263"] We have DARE in Canada, it's facilitated by the RCMP. We also have Risk Watch (occaisionally done through the Fire Department, I've had the oportunity to speak at one or two presentations), and I can't say I'm a big fan of either one. When I was in school, guys from DARE, MADD, SADD, you name it would come in and make countless presentations. They'd put on plays, show stories about how their son/daughter ODed or got alcohol poisoning and how popular they were, they'd show pictures of people banged up in Alcohol-Related wrecks, show people pics of dead bodies and bring body bags up to show....And it didn't make a difference at all...Until it actually happens, people aren't gonna understand it...Until these kids are in a car wreck and lose their friend or a loved one, until they actually watch their lifeless friend being worked on by paramedics, until these parents have a State Trooper/Police Constable standing on their doorstep saying your baby died, they aren't gonna learn. I could try to influence them all I want, preach till I'm all sorts of funny colors in the face, put up a dozen pictures of kids I've cut out of cars, and go on and on about how--in the end--they'd just be another number in the computer, but it wouldn't really make a difference. It wouldn't change anything. Parents will still let their kids drink/get high and etc, kids are still gonna be drinking and driving, girls are still gonna get taken advantage of while they're under the influence, you name it, it'll still happen whether we like it or not....I hope to God that it doesn't take a serious wake-up call like getting charged with Criminal Neglect/Contributing to Deliquency/Crim Neglect Causing Bodily Harm or Death/Child Endangerment/ Cop standin on their doorstep to change the parents' minds... I don't know anymore... [/QUOTE]
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