El fiscal general de los Estados Unidos vive anclado en la década de 1980

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El fiscal general de los Estados Unidos vive anclado en la década de 1980

31 julio 2017

El fiscal general de los Estados Unidos, Jeff Sessions, tiene la intención de que su país vuelva a la década de 1980, ignorando las pruebas empíricas y fomentando modelos obsoletos de educación y penas duras por los delitos de drogas.

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It was peak Jeff Sessions, the moment that showed exactly what the country is getting under President Donald Trump’s attorney general: Ignoring decades of scientific evidence, Sessions praised an anti-drug program — DARE — straight out of the 1980s “tough on crime” playbook.

Speaking at a DARE conference, Sessions said, “DARE is, I think, the best remembered anti-drug program today. In recent years, people have not paid much attention to that message, but they are ready to hear it again. … We know it worked before, and we can make it work again.”

DARE was largely based on one idea: If you tell kids about how bad drugs are, they will be so scared that they will not use them. The program leveraged this to try to teach kids how to say no to drugs.

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