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DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools

Presented by Max Felker-Kantor in conversation with Colette Shade. With its signature ”DARE to keep kids off drugs“ slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing.

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D.C.: In conversation with Charlotte Shane at Politics and Prose Union Market