As a counterpoint, I found DARE to be a useful and worldly course.
I probably wasn't the target audience, as an introverted sciency-type, but the class gave me a survey of the various drugs on the market and an introduction to a vocabulary with which I'd had no contact. When interactions with drugs touched closer friends in subsequent years, I feel that I was better prepared than I would've been without DARE.
Anecdotally, DARE led to my confounding our family doctor when I categorically refused to take any cough medicine, even prescribed, that contained codeine.
I probably wasn't the target audience, as an introverted sciency-type, but the class gave me a survey of the various drugs on the market and an introduction to a vocabulary with which I'd had no contact. When interactions with drugs touched closer friends in subsequent years, I feel that I was better prepared than I would've been without DARE.
Anecdotally, DARE led to my confounding our family doctor when I categorically refused to take any cough medicine, even prescribed, that contained codeine.
So, Mr. DARE officer, your course worked for me.